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Hand Me Downs
This spoken word poem explores the limited definition of maleness that is sometimes passed from fathers to sons.
July 8, 2014
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StoryCorps: Mom Read the Mail
“At my house, only one person got the mail, and that was my mother.”
July 8, 2014
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StoryCorps: When Grandfather Came Out
“I just felt I was not living an honest life.”
July 8, 2014
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StoryCorps: In the Wrong Body
“You said that you were in the wrong body, that you should be a man.”
July 8, 2014
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School Is a Place to Ask Questions
LGBT school leaders speak to a group of students about their own identities and explain why it’s important to ask questions and learn more about people who are different from ourselves.
December 11, 2014
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Being Different Is Like a Part-Time Job
Eighteen-year-old Sandra exemplifies a strong sense of self, as she talks to her peers about why she doesn’t conform to societal gender norms.
December 11, 2014
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Storm
In this story, the parents of three children decide not to tell people the gender of the third child in an effort to avoid promoting stereotypes. Instead, they allow the child to be a person rather than a pretty girl who wears pink or a strong boy who wears blue.
July 9, 2014
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Jerrie Mock
Tamera Bryant relays the story of Jerrie Mock and her dream to fly an airplane around the world. In spite of naysayers, including her family, who tried to remind her that girls grow up to be wives and mothers, Jerrie followed her dream and became the first woman to fly an airplane around the world.
July 9, 2014
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Taking A Stand Against Sexual Bullying
The United States Justice Department recently struck a blow against bullying behavior. Officials there reversed a decade-old policy and asked to intervene in a harassment suit brought by a gay youth.
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Before Rosa Parks: Frances Watkins Harper
The title “Before Rosa Parks” loosely links a number of lessons that discuss African-American women who were active in the fight for civil rights before the 1950s. This lesson highlights Frances Watkins Harper, who challenged power structures in the South by talking to free former slaves about voting, land ownership and education—and fought segregated public transportation.
July 6, 2009