Jules (multiracial queer person) is wearing a winter coat and standing in front of rushing falls.
bio
JULES PURNELL (they/them) is queer, non-binary, transmasculine, chronically ill/disabled, and currently resides in Western Massachusetts, land originally inhabited by Wabanaki and Pocumtuc people. They identify as multiracial, the descendant of immigrants from Southeast Asia and Western Europe, whose family eventually settled in the Midwestern United States. Jules is a member of kink community, ethically non-monogamous, and co-parent to two neurospicy, gender creative children.
They hold a BA in Women and Gender Studies and Sociology with a concentration in Deaf Studies from the University of Southern Maine. They earned their M.Ed. in Human Sexuality Studies from Widener University and are a Certified Sexuality Educator through AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators Counselors & Therapists).
Jules’s approach is informed by an expressly intersectional, postmodern, existentialist, anti-racist, feminist, and queer theory-informed perspective. With respect to education, they adopt the pedagogical philosophies of progressivism, social reconstructionism, and humanism.
When not teaching or consulting, they enjoy traveling, practicing calligraphy, falling headlong into a true crime documentary or podcast, or spending as much time outside as the weather allows.