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Encouraging Meaningful Conversations About Race and Trauma

By Victoria Dawson — 2019

Moments of calm, Jenée Johnson believes, are the foundation of emotional intelligence and its skills of resilience and compassion. In effect, Johnson’s title—Program Innovation Leader: Mindfulness, Trauma, and Racial Equity —positions her as the San Francisco Department of Public Health's chief mindfulness officer.

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8 Things You Should Know About Two Spirit People

Two Spirit people have been present in Native communities for countless generations that predate LGBTQ terminology. Here are 8 things to know.

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Tony Enos
2017
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For Many Native Americans, Embracing LGBT Members Is a Return to the Past

The sound of drums, singing and prayers marked the opening of a powwow in Phoenix on a Saturday afternoon this month. . . . It was Arizona’s first Two-Spirit Powwow, one of a handful of powwows that have sprung up across North America to celebrate LGBT Native Americans.

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Katherine Davis-Young
2019
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LGBTQ American Indians Report High Levels of Depression and Abuse, Study Finds

“If LGBTQ people get assaulted or beaten up in a hate crime on tribal land, it’s often not prosecuted,” one advocate said.

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Dan Avery
2021
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Latinx Actor Vico Ortiz Talks Coming Out Non-Binary, Breaking Down Gendered Barriers

“In Latin America, there’s been a great deal of progress around gay and lesbian identities,” Ortiz says. “But with being transgender and non-binary, a lot of people are still unsure what it all means and I believe it’s connected to the words we use.”

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Lamar Dawson
2021
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The Whiteness of ‘Coming Out’: Culture and Identity in the Disclosure Narrative

Ideas of visibility and the closet have largely been shaped by white America and the gay liberation movement of the 1970s. Refusing to subscribe to this narrative gives us space to connect with our gender, our culture and our sexuality on our own terms.

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Asiel Adan Sanchez
2021
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Today’s Queer Latinx Representation on TV Is Everything I Needed Growing Up

In the late ’90s, television was my greatest source of comfort—the place were I went to to find versions of myself reflected back at me. The only queer woman I ever saw on screen, however, was Ellen Degeneres.

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Priscilla Blossom
2019
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For Asian Americans, Coming Out in 2019 Can Still Present Unique Challenges

A recent study found that only 19 percent of Asian American and Pacific Islander LGBTQ youth said they could “definitely” be themselves at home.

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Kevin Truong
2019
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Asian Americans Are Viewed as More American If They Are Gay

New research finds that an Asian American who presents as gay signals that he or she is fully invested in American culture.

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Tom Jacobs
2019
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How I Navigated Coming Out to My Traditional Asian Family

A queer author of color on the limits of language and the maximums of love.

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Emily Hashimoto
2020
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