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Category: Acceptance

October 24, 2023 Acceptance / Community stories / Intersectionality / Pandemic

Embracing Diversity: A Filmmaker’s Perspective in Higher Education

By: John Sabato Editor: Oliver Hackett and Yanxi Zhou Every morning at 8:30 a.m., Professor Yezbick teaches an introduction-level film

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February 28, 2023 Ability / Acceptance / Community stories / Intersectionality

A Place Where Everyone is Celebrated

By: Amanda Forrester Editor: Katie Williams The Living and Learning Enrichment Center in Northville, Michigan, works with teens and young

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February 21, 2023 Ability / Acceptance / Identity

A Seat at the Table

By Alexander Gustanski Editor: Katie Williams and Oliver Hackett Brian Wigman is an honors college professor and counselor working at

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February 14, 2023 Acceptance / Community stories / Gender / Identity

Acceptance and Denial: Being Transgender in America

By: Nathan Katzenberger Editor: Katie Williams About 18 to 22 weeks into pregnancy, the medical professionals caring for a couple

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January 2, 2022 Ability / Acceptance / Community stories / Family

Surviving Polio Without Pity

By Allison Ludwig Editor Katie Williams Kathleen Sims is a wife, mother, grandmother and retired nurse but also a polio

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December 22, 2020 Acceptance / Community stories / Family / Identity / Sexuality

Self Acceptance of Sexuality

By Shannon Gaffney Tristan Riggs, an 18-year-old college student, studies fashion design at the School of Art Institute of Chicago.

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November 24, 2020 Acceptance / Family / Identity / Sexuality

Opening Up to Family

By Emma Carr This is Joshua Ahearn’s story. My family has always been picture perfect; we’re the type to host

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November 12, 2020 Acceptance / Healing / Identity

Hair, Wigs, Embracing Baldness

By Brynn Wooten This is Reece Wooten’s story. I got my first bald spot when I was 14 years old,

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September 3, 2020 Acceptance / Community stories / Family / Religion / Suburban

Full House, Full Life

By Sarah Hill A large, majestic house on a 10-acre plot of land in Rochester Hills, Michigan, is where Laura

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August 7, 2020 Acceptance / Ethnicity / Identity / Race / Religion / Suburban

Culture and Being Biracial

By Adam Conigliaro In Southeast Michigan, a biracial American man faces discrimination from his extended family for his skin pigmentation.

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