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Margaret Batchelder writes to President Theodore Roosevelt to tell him how women inspectors welcome immigrants—with smiles and encouragement. Although not allowed to question the immigrants, the women make a difference in the immigrants' first experiences on shore.

In this introduction, Alice Walker touches on ideas of activism, the strength of the individual, enlightenment, fear of being inferior and the conviction needed to embrace one's life.

Rosie's mother and father did not marry out of love, and her mother writes haiku as an escape. After entering a contest, a man comes to deliver her prize—a framed picture. Angered by this intrusion, Rosie's father destroys the picture. In her anguish, Rosie's mother explains her marriage to her daughter.

In this video, young people reflect on society's rules for what males and females can and cannot do.

This spoken word poem explores the limited definition of maleness that is sometimes passed from fathers to sons.

“A Staff Sergeant went through my cell phone and saw some of the text messages that I had to my boyfriend.”

“At my house, only one person got the mail, and that was my mother.”

“He said to me, 'I will make sure every day is a living hell for you.'”

“I just felt I was not living an honest life.”

“I was very strict because I was afraid kids would discover I was gay.”