Aria Ashburn text message with parent

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Interview with Aria Ashburn, video

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Interview with Aria Ashburn, transcript

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Photograph of Aria Ashburn

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Photograph of Aria Ashburn

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Letter to "Dear Mom" from Aria Ashburn

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Aria Ashburn text message with parent

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Aria Ashburn text message with parent

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Aria Ashburn text message with parent

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Item

Description

First image in a string of text message screenshots between Aria Ashburn and her father after she came out to her family.
Details
- Format
  - Text messages
- Type
  - StillImage
- Date
  - Date original: 2018-06
- Subject - Topic
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Identifier
  - HL_GSOH_Woomer_Ashburn_2021-02-18_text_01

Object

Description

Aria Ashburn calls herself a gender queer trans-woman with non-binary aspects of her identity, but also discusses the importance of not worrying too much about labels. She talks about being bullied and suppressing her feelings as a child and about coming out while an undergrad at Western Carolina University. She shares her experience returning home after graduation and how it felt to go back in the closet and how it led to a stronger coming out experience when she returned to Western to pursue her Master's degree. She talks about the process of making the difficult decision to come out to her family and about her mother's reaction and their relationship now. Ashburn discusses the flaws in the preferred name system at Western.
Details
- Creator
  - Ashburn, Aria
- Contributor
  - Woomer, Danny
- Format
- Type
- Date
  - Date interview: 2021-02-18
- Extent
  - Duration: 00:47:46 (video recording)
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Jackson County (N.C.)
  - North Carolina, Western
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - WCU Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project
- Identifier
  - HL_GSOH_Woomer_Ashburn_2021-02-18
- Related material
  - Audio transcription read-along tracking version available at Https://bit.ly/3O2cfbn
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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