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Category: Acceptance

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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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Nine children smile huddled together on a large rock.
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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June 2, 2020 Acceptance / Ethnicity / Family / Identity / Immigration

Spanish with an Accent

By Sarah Markstrom Perla Escamilla is a Spanish Major at Oakland University (OU). She has gone through a lot in

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May 26, 2020 Acceptance / Ethnicity / Family / Gender / Identity / Immigration / Race / Religion

Diversity, Identity, and Choice

By Sarah Gudenau Norunuhar “Noony” Ali is a nursing student in her sophomore year at Oakland University (OU) with an

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An elderly couple smile, his arm around her shoulders, view of a backyard and blue house behind them.
April 23, 2020 Acceptance / Community stories / Immigration / Race / Rural

Missing the Humor and the Smells

By Eileen LeValley Meet John Chisholm. John immigrated to the United States from Shrewsbury, England, in 1979. He was an

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Close-up of white woman's head, with brown hair. The side of her head above ear shows scalp, no hair.
January 30, 2020 Acceptance / Healing / Identity

Hair Story

By Sheryl Ruszkiewicz* I was first diagnosed with Alopecia areata at the beginning of fifth grade, right before picture day.

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January 23, 2020 Acceptance / Family / Religion / Rural

Louisiana Accent Away From Home

By Paige Webb Allison Webb is a fourth-grade elementary school teacher. She has been teaching for a total of 18

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