gender

Getting Used to It

"It was strange to see men and women sitting with each other, discussing economics, politics, sports." [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/139388005" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this story? Where? With whom? What kinds...
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Because I Changed My Style

"I used to be a stereotypical girl." http://youtu.be/IXa_96Q9HIs Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this story? Where? With whom? What kinds of questions would you pose? (See How to use the questions for reflection for one approach.)...
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Strong Female Leader

“It was tough for me because I don’t like to tell people to shut up.” [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/172913027" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]   Hold a Conversation In addition to the questions below, please see How to use the questions for...
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Hijab Is Not Just This Cloth

"I grew up in America and I wear jeans, and I want to make sure that’s something that works, that’s still modest." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se-m2ry4lug Want to learn about the first day the speaker decided to wear the hijab?  Check out "I Was Afraid...
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Please, God, Let It Rain

"I'm all for free speech, but a lot of these things kinda went a step beyond." [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/202720284" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this story? Where? With whom? What kinds...
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Naming Can Be Powerful

“If we think of it in terms of race, we would not hold a debate over whether it was appropriate for blacks to be pastors.” [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214619053" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a...
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Getting on Your Feet, Staying on Your Feet

Three audio stories from a woman's experience of family, drug use, recovery, and homelessness These stories are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel's Horn, Dayspring Women's...
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More of a Mentor-Slash-Counselor

"If we don't put the work in to help them pursue their vision, what's going to happen next? That'll be another person that we'll lose to the streets." https://youtu.be/wckbHXcMXtY Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this...
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Oh, Wait a Minute

"Labels started to get way too complicated." https://youtu.be/phD7Vk1r3ik Transcript for Oh, Wait a Minute There's a lot of stuff within the trans umbrella. There's transgender, there's male-to-female, female-to-male, non-binary, gender fluid, genderqueer, gender nonconforming, did I say non-binary? Third gender, two-spirit,...
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