Honoring Trans Remembrance Day a Community Panel: Who Decides Who You Are?

A panel of community activists will be moderated by Jaqui Melton from the Center for Diversity and Cultural Competence at Barnes Jewish Hospital.

Each of us was born into a world that came to define us before we ever had a say. Defining our own stories is a radical act that often times challenges us to consider the question “who decides who you are?” This interactive panel will leverage Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TEDTalk, “The Danger of a Single Story,” and Academy Award winning film “Moonlight” to further process how individual and collective stories have been reclaimed and transformed through the grassroots work of community members who exist and thrive, in both identity and advocacy, at the intersection of some of our community’s most vulnerable populations.