Nicole B. Adkins Cruz is on the phone with her girlfriend, Lea’s, mother, trying to connect with her friend. Isabella, Cruz’s sister, invites her to come down to dinner when it’s revealed that some teenagers are spreading a picture of Cruz and Lea kissing. Isabella doesn’t want to step in to help defend her sister […]
Greg Machlin Cassius is playing a game of chess where both her allies and her tormentors are the chess pieces. The black pieces defend the youth while the white pieces represent various voices bullying her and speaking against her trans identity. The white team loses, in part, because the white pawn doesn’t want to put
By Dave Ulrich Two young (Derrick and Zoe) people make up dialogue while watching two other youth argue; escalating to a fight. They reveal to each other that Derrick is gay and Zoe is pregnant. They agree that in order to change the school culture around bullying and people feeling ostracized that they need to
