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Story Update: Femi Redwood – Navigating The Race & Gender Divide In LGBTQ Spaces

by Femi Redwood

Story Update: Femi Redwood – Navigating The Race & Gender Divide In LGBTQ Spaces

Nathan: Hello. Welcome to this week’s Story Update. This week, we’re going to be speaking with Femi Redwood, who shared her story with us almost six years ago. So before we s...

Story Update: Ashley Jackson—“Life Is Short And We All Have Our Own Life To Live.”

by Ashley Jackson

Story Update: Ashley Jackson—“Life Is Short And We All Have Our Own Life To Live.”

Nathan:  Hello, I’m Nathan Manske. I’m the Founder and Executive Director of I’m From Driftwood. For this week’s Story Update, we’re going to hear from Ashley Jackson, ...

How A Lesbian Pushed Her Mom Beyond Tolerance To Become An Advocate.

by Jourdan Porter

How A Lesbian Pushed Her Mom Beyond Tolerance To Become An Advocate.

Hi. I’m Jourdan Porter. I am from Davidson, North Carolina. In tenth grade, I was living right outside Jackson, Mississippi. And it was pretty early in the school year and I had...

Video Games Help Trans Woman Embrace Identity

by Nicole Modjeski

Video Games Help Trans Woman Embrace Identity

I am Nicole Modjeski and I’m from Jackson, Mississippi. My mother was a single parent mom and we lived in the Spring Ridge Road Mobile Estates which is basically a trailer park....

“I Lost Everything Within A Day” Of Disclosing HIV Status.

by Cody Walker

“I Lost Everything Within A Day” Of Disclosing HIV Status.

My name is Cody Walker I’m from Satartia, Mississippi, it’s a town of about 80 people and close to The Delta right outside of Yazoo City. In 2010 I met these 2 guys, Steve and...

New Teacher Shuts Down Homophobic Language In Classroom.

by Alexa Espinal

New Teacher Shuts Down Homophobic Language In Classroom.

My name’s Alexa Espinal and I’m from New York City. I recently came to Mississippi about four months ago to teach. I’m teaching middle school art, so I teach 6th, 7th, and 8...

Discovering the Gender and Racial Divide in the LGBTQ Community

by Femi Redwood

Discovering the Gender and Racial Divide in the LGBTQ Community

I’m Femi Redwood. I’m from Milton, Delaware, which is about 15 minutes outside of Rehoboth Beach. Teeny tiny little place in Delaware, with about 13 black people, so 6 of them...

IFD Live: How Cross-Dressing And “Mommie Dearest” Helped Teen Confront Bully.

by Jason Bishop

IFD Live: How Cross-Dressing And “Mommie Dearest” Helped Teen Confront Bully.

Being a gay 6th grader sucks. It was particularly bad for me in Mississippi in 1985. Life sucked at school, it was horrible, every day I was tortured, it was just horrible. “Sis...

I’m From Eucutta, MS – Video Story.

by Daniel Cook

I’m From Eucutta, MS – Video Story.

When Daniel came out at 15, his parents gave him two options. “One, you can either leave right now. Just get your stuff and go. Or two, we’re going to enroll you into a Christ...

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