All Videos
Family is a Feeling
(Video 1)
Expectations
(Video 5)
Iced Coffee
(Video 2)
Hello, How Are You?
(Video 6)
Blue Dream Conditioner
(Video 3)
Birth Certificate
(Video 7)
Off the Shore
(Video 4)
Have You Met My Son?
(Video 8)
Family is a Feeling (Video 1) (narrator pronouns: they/them, he/him)
Topics: adoption, disability, boundaries, chosen family
Video Blurb: Family is a Feeling is a video by a trans young adult who uses they/them and he/him pronouns. This narrator describes their family as adoptive, and engages with themes of adoption, disability, boundaries, and chosen family. Bonus questions for this video can be found in the Video 1 Discussion Guide section.
Iced Coffee (Video 2) (narrator pronouns: she/her)
Topics: communication, coping, identity development
Video Blurb: Iced Coffee is a video by a trans young adult who uses she/her pronouns. This narrator describes her family as including herself and her two parents, and engages with themes of silence, communication, coping, and identity development. Bonus questions for this video can be found in the Video 2 Discussion Guide section.
Blue Dream Conditioner (Video 3) (narrator pronouns: they/them)
Topics: hair, race, housing instability, family rejection
Video Blurb: Blue Dream Conditioner is a video by a trans young adult who uses they/them pronouns. This narrator describes their family as multiracial and chosen and non-chosen, and engages with themes of race, hair, community caretaking, and housing instability. Bonus questions for this video can be found in the Video 3 Discussion Guide section.
Off the Shore (Video 4) (narrator pronouns: he/him)
Topics: swimming, boundaries
Video Blurb: Off the Shore is a video by a trans young adult who uses he/him pronouns. This narrator describes his family as large and inclusive of extended family, and engages with themes of swimming, medical transition, boundaries, and communication. Bonus questions for this video can be found in the Video 4 Discussion Guide section.
Expectations (Video 5) (narrator pronouns: she/her)
Topics: tradition, expectations, socialization, communication
Video Blurb: Expectations is a video by a trans young adult who uses she/her pronouns. This narrator describes her family as including her mother and brother, and engages with themes of tradition, expectations, socialization, and communication. Bonus questions for this video can be found in the discussion guide drop down menu under “Video Specific Questions”.
Hello, How Are You? (Video 6) (narrator pronouns: he/him)
Topics: religion, allyship, inclusion, communication
Video Blurb: Hello, How Are You? is a video by a trans young adult who uses he/him pronouns. This narrator describes his family as including his parents and some extended family, and engages with themes of religion, allyship, inclusion, and communication. Bonus questions for this video can be found in the Video 6 Discussion Guide section.
Birth Certificate (Video 7) (narrator pronouns: they/them)
Topics: discomfort, familial control, boundaries, name-change, allyship
Video Blurb: Birth Certificate is a video by a trans young adult who uses they/them pronouns. This narrator describes their family as their parents, aunt, and themself, and engages with themes of discomfort, familial control, boundaries, name-change, and allyship. Bonus questions for this video can be found in the Video 7 Discussion Guide section.
Have You Met My Son? (Video 8) (narrator pronouns: he/him)
Topics: adoption, expectations, communication, misconceptions about transness
Video Blurb: Have You Met My Son? is a video by a trans young adult who uses he/him pronouns. This narrator describes his family as adoptive, and includes his parents and himself. The video engages with themes of adoption, expectations, communication, and misconceptions about transness. Bonus questions for this video can be found in the Video 8 Discussion Guide section.