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Rural LGBTQ+ Youth Love Note Tim and Liz

Rural LGBTQ+ Youth Love Note: From Tim and Liz

You’re exactly what we need, say Norris, Tennessee couple Tim Marema and Liz McGeachy in this love note to rural LGBTQ+ young people. This video was submitted as part of The Rural Youth Catalyst and Rural Assembly’s Love Notes to Rural LGBTQ+ Youth project. We invite you to write your own – a few sentences, a paragraph, or even a short video. Learn how and read more in this series below. 

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Skype screen from CNN New Day Whitney Kimball Coe and John Berman

Maus Book Controversy: Four Ways You Can Take Action

Plenty of people in East Tennessee are livid over a school board’s decision to remove “Maus” from the language arts curriculum. But indiscriminate outrage on TV and social media isn’t helping the local dissenters who are trying to build a better way forward, writes The Rural Assembly’s Whitney Kimball Coe today in The Daily Yonder. Read her story, plus four ways you can take action.

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