SPEECH AND DEBATE FOR ALL.
Quick Resources
Rethinking Kritikal Thinking in Debate
Amrit Das | 1/29/25
“Kritikal argumentation is a net positive for debate, but if teams are wrongly empowered based on race, we need to zoom out and ensure that these arguments are bringing out the best of us, not the worst of us. We need to encourage success among all competitors, no matter their race, and show these teams that if you debate better than your opponent, there should be no excuse for judge intervention.”
Quantifying Inequalities in Progressive Debate
C.J. Getting | 1/22/25
"This case study represents the first effort to quantify inequalities within progressive and traditional debate. It found that the highest levels of competitive success in progressive Lincoln-Douglas debate are disproportionately populated by students from private schools with access to curricular debate, compared to counterparts in traditional Lincoln-Douglas debate, and that these inequalities are growing."
Ananya Saravanan | 1/15/25
"Speech and debate is supposed to be a place where we allow the voiceless to speak about their experiences, whether that’s in the form of an Oratory or a Congress bill - a place to gain perspectives, not confine them. When there’s a formula that you ‘need’ to win, it limits us to hearing the same performances every time, defeating the purpose of this community."
More about us
Equality in Forensics is a student-run nonprofit organization that provides free and online resources to make speech and debate more accessible to students, educators, and coaches across America. We host a regularly updated blog, produce free and online resources, sponsor free coaching services, and host free events. Equality in Forensics has a mission of making speech and debate accessible to high school students across the country. We accomplish this through substantive, impactful activism.
Our community
Equality in Forensics fosters an active, tight-knit community in the Discord server. Here, we publish announcements, host events, and give debaters the opportunity to network and learn from each other.
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Equality in Forensics runs a regularly updated Instagram page that posts our blog articles, announces new events and opportunities, and engages with the rest of the speech and debate community.
Equality in Forensics publishes high quality video content to help students learn speech and debate events, get informed on new debate topics, and learn from the best competitors across the world.