Category: Identity

“Dennis will roll with the best of them.”

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Theresa McLaughlin speaks about raising her son, Dennis, who was born with spina bifida, leaving him unable to use his legs. Read more…

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Recorded in Portland, ME.

“When he was growing up, he was living in South Texas...”

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Ricardo Isais Zavala remembers his grandfather, Vicente Domingo Villa, in an interview with his son, Ricardo Javier Zavala. Read more…

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Recorded in Austin, TX.

“I was looking at everyone else, going, 'Why aren't we like that?'”

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Lisa Combest and her ex-husband, James Hanson-Brown, talk about how their marriage ended. Read more…

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Recorded in Houston, TX.

“I'd heard lines like this before, but this time it was different.”

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Winslow Jackson and his wife, Dorothy, who both are living with multiple sclerosis, remember how they met. Read more…

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Recorded in Atlanta, GA.

“You said that you were in the wrong body, that you should be a man.”

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Scott (R) and Les (L) GrantSmith talk about how Les' decision to transition from female to male affected their marriage. Les also interviewed his daughters, Thea and Amanda. Read more…

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Recorded in San Diego, CA.

“I always hoped that you didn't remember much.”

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Jennifer Coursey speaks with her 12-year-old son, Grant, who was diagnosed with cancer as a toddler. Read more…

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Recorded in Ukiah, CA.

“I am happier now without my voice than I've ever been with my voice.”

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René Foreman, who survived cancer of the esophagus, tells her daughter Michelle about speaking through an electrolarynx. Read more…

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Recorded in Los Angeles, CA.

“At my house, only one person got the mail, and that was my mother.”

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Nathan Hoskins tells his friend Sally Evans how his family first learned that he was gay. Read more…

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Recorded in Lexington, KY.

“Does it bother you to think of home?”

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Sarah Littman interviews her son, Joshua, who has Asperger's syndrome, about his first semester at college. Read more…

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“EMTs arrived within minutes...”

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David Wilson, a plaintiff in the 2004 court decision legalizing same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, remembers the death of his first partner.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

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