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Saeed Jones

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When I was writing HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES, I privately debated leaving some chapters out. I thought writing about kids asking me if I was saved at the lunch table or my private panic about Matthew Shepard would be too dated to be relevant to readers by the time the book came out in 2019. ALAS.

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Jill S's avatar Jill S @outseide.bsky.social
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SAME AS IT EVER WAS. Kids were telling me I was going to hell in the '80s (for being a Jew - the queerness came later).

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abelle prince 🎙️ voice actor's avatar abelle prince 🎙️ voice actor @actuallyabelle.bsky.social
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I was the only non-religious kid in my small, southern conservative town growing up, and actually attended the first college Matthew studied at before transferring, and had a very similar experience. People are still SHOCKED sometimes when I talk about the way AGGRESSIVELY evangelical -

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