'Cassie: "Who Taught You to Be Queer?" episode 11

About this episode

Cassie shares her journey of accepting her queer identity after growing up in a sheltered religious environment.

This episode of “Who Taught You to be Queer?” Here We Are ; interviews Cassie a White, lesbian GenZ postdoctoral scientist. Cassie was raised in a sheltered religious background in Texas. Knowing her queerness and attraction to other females at a very early age she tried to fit in and even unqueering herself with an engagement to be married to a man. Finally, she chose to be happy, accepting her true essense as queer lesbian, in spite of her family’s acceptance, or not. We both shared a...

People in this episode

Host: juan t salter

Guest: Cassie

Topics covered

• queerness
• identity
• acceptance
• lesbian
• GenZ
• religion

Keywords

• queer
• lesbian
• GenZ
• identity
• Texas
• acceptance
• religion

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Texas

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