From producer Sara Akins:
These Forgotten Places focuses on the places we left behind as we grew from adolescence to adulthood.
“Life moves pretty fast…”
~ Ferris Bueller
This intimate, nostalgia-ridden podcast encourages us to slow down and face life’s most tender moments. By learning to part with the times we can’t get back – we learn to cherish where we are now.
I interviewed my close friend Devin, a couple years younger than me, who is from the same hometown. He’s trans — and when he was 15 turning 16, he left his Michigan home to attend a boarding school of sorts (first in California, then in Utah) that had therapy and gender-inclusive care worked into the schools’ structure. He’s back home now — and he has a complex relationship not only to those schools, but also to the town we were taught to call home.
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