Dancing In My Own Body
I always loved dancing since I was a child. Despite my severe shyness and self consciousness about my body, weight and size - I loved how...
PRIDE – In the name of love, does being raped make me gay???
When I turned 21, I asked my mom to take me to Charlotte’s Web, a popular lesbian bar in Norfolk, VA. I decided to “come out.” After...
Oh Freedom!
“And before I’d be a slave, I’d be buried in my grave, and go home to my Lord and be FREE!” - Post-Civil War African-American freedom...
Hello From the Other Side
He handed me the phone and said, "Here Jen, talk to her." "Hello??" I said. I sat on the toilet in the dark crying hysterically. I don't...
April 6, 1991 - Foster Care & Prison: 25 Years Ago
I was 14 years old and loved Def Leppard and Guns & Roses. I was good at art, math, making jewelry and blow jobs. I drank beer, purple...
Little Jen
I was a shy child. I always felt awkward and an outcast. I was fat, Native American, Mexican, Buddhist, only child, had a messy house and...