Collected Item: “A Quarantine Gender Tale”
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A Quarantine Gender Tale
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
screenshot
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Living in a pandemic, navigating through the ins and outs of being (almost) 17, and self-reflecting on who I am during quarantine has shaped me into an entirely different person than who I was at the start of 2020. I remember sitting through a speaker presentation for a club I’m in during Transgender Awareness Week; In part because of LGBTQ+ education being moved into virtual spaces and in part because I feel the term now deeply resonates with me, I quickly took this screenshot of the slide defining the term non-binary. Before the pandemic, gender and how I viewed it was never a thought in my head because I often had no time to even reflect on what it meant to be a girl, to be a boy, or to simply exist beyond the binary. But I feel like if this prolonged period of isolation has taught me anything, it’s that gender and my relation to it will always remain an agglomeration of everything and nothing at all, and sometimes that’s perfectly normal.
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#APUSH #Garden Grove High School #LGBTQ+
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Viviana
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2021-01-21