How we can make sure we’re including people? How we can share our faith with other | section people and make sure the people around us feel cared about and loved? • it story would take so much stress off of our shoulders. If not, we should be excused from the work students do on that day during the holiday we take off for • GSA absolutely helped because I was able to find more people that were going through what I was going through • people have always been gay. I don’t think people are really necessarily inventing new things. They’re just inventing new words to describe what they’re feeling • I think the political climate and the overarching culture has perpetuated the specific factors that contribute toward why sexism continues exist • School it’s easy to use harsh words • I didn’t lose any friends, it’s Lakota to East High more family thatlakotaeastsparkonline.com I lost • in our society you’re valued by how much money you make • she January $5her Newsstand put down whatever she 2020 had in hands and said, ‘You better not be [gay], because I can’t handle losing a daughter’ • in my opinion I think everyone is human and everyone really comes from the same source • call it a hate culture, you can call it a partisan conflict on steroids in which both sides hate each other • after I came out, I felt like I could talk to my parents more. I felt like a weight had been lifted off my chest • to experience prejudice is painful. And that pain cannot simply disappear into thin air • a feminist is a person who stands up for human rights, [especially] when it comes to gender expression • it’s a culture of discriminatory behaviors and actions that are offensive • it was painful when my friends told me that I would look •better if I wore my hair straight • so you have a kind of mutually reinforcing process where politicians become more extreme in their attitude • that continues to happen and perpetuates the disparities that keep people from being at equal levels and being treated fairly •I legitimately thought I was losing my mind • I don’t think white people understand that fear, or the seriousness of being pulled over. it’s like they don’t understand their privilege of not being afraid • people should not be mistreated at all, but [they believe that] mistreatment should not come from a place of what a person’s gender is • those racial prejudices that are woven through every institution • women aren’t taken seriously on a whole lot of levels • my hair also is one of the things that makes me stand out among everybody • all it does is ostracize members of the community who are not Christian • I think a lot of times adults look at me think that I’m trying to make a political statement. I’m not. I’m just trying to exist • I find it funny how misinformed people are • in one way or another, that pain is something that absorbs into the soul. It chips away at a person’s confidence and cannot be forgotten • we have to continue working to make things like this better • I legitimately don’t know if I would be alive if I had to live as a female today, because it was torture. • a lot of people will say, ‘Well, that’s just the way it is,’ without seeing that if the sexist inequality is a product of the culture, it’s still a problem. • the fact is, too much change at once is scary if you’re not trying to be radical • it’s hard being African American and going to an all white studio • it’s hard to stay hopeful all the time. I had to call emergency numbers [for] one of my friends because they were going to end their life because their family didn’t accept them • he pulled out a switchblade, flipped it open and pointed it at me [and said], ‘If me or my friends ever see you in 2020 a men’s bathroom again, January lakotaeastsparkonline.com 1
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