The TMI Project Podcast Season 5: Black Trans Stories Matter
On Season 5 of The TMI Project Podcast: Black Trans Stories Matter, co-hosts Kiebpoli Calnek and Erik Harris profile 11 storytellers, who share radically true stories celebrating Black, Trans, and Gender Expansive communities!
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On January 22, 2023 (what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade), 11 storytellers travelled to Kingston, NY from Mexico, Cameroon, and across the US to lend their voices to the fight for bodily autonomy in Stories for Choice: A Night of True Storytelling for Reproductive Justice.
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On Saturday, June 12, 2021, TMI Project presented our first-ever Black Trans Stories Matter live virtual true storytelling performance. The performance was a culmination of a Black trans-led 10-session true storytelling workshop series for Black TGNC people.
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The TMI Project Podcast Season 5:
Black Trans Stories Matter
Full season available now!
LEARN MORE
Watch Stories for Choice: Radically True Storytelling for Reproductive Justice
On January 22, 2023 (what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade), TMI Project presented Stories for Choice: Radically True Storytelling for Reproductive Justice.
LEARN MORE
Watch our Black Trans Stories Matter true storytelling performance
On June 12, 2021, TMI Project presented our first-ever Black Trans Stories Matter live virtual true storytelling performance.
LEARN MORE
The TMI Project Podcast features stories from more than a decade of live performances, profiling the brave souls who stepped on stage and shared the stories they were most afraid to tell. Here we will take a deeper dive and share the stories behind the secrets, and what happened next.
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Download the accompanying Listening and Discussion Guide to find out how you can use true stories as the launchpad for brave communication, meaningful discussion, and impactful action.
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Writing and Performance
Writing and Performance
True stories told by the people who lived them. Our instructors help participants produce compelling, highly personal monologues and essays through exercises and feedback in a safe space, followed by hands-on editing.
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Community Outreach
Community Outreach
Mental illness often has a stigma associated with it that prevents those who suffer to get the help they need. Discover how telling true stories to live audiences with the help of TMI Project and The Mental Health Association of Ulster County helps people cope and heal.
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Education
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With the help of TMI Project, students come to understand one another through hearing each other's stories. Walls are often broken down between "cliques." As a result of increased compassion and a deeper understanding of one another, bullying decreases.
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Activism
Activism
Twelve feminists from around the world met in upstate New York in September 2014. They gathered to pilot TMI Project's methodology for Gender at Work and to unearth and tell their own stories. This video is a testimony to the power of the personal story.
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TESTIMONIALS

  • "As I’m listening to people tell their truths, I’m living through my truth. That’s what’s so wonderful about TMI Project."

    Tony Porter
    Tony Porter A Call to Men

  • “TMI Project is living proof of something I deeply believe: being able to tell your story is a human right.”

    Celeste Lecesne
    Celeste Lecesne The Trevor Project

  • “Telling stories creates community and removes shame as it reminds people they are not alone. The stories we heard tonight are so profound, so beautiful, so true, so real, so brave. I’m overwhelmed.”

    V (formerly Eve Ensler)
    V (formerly Eve Ensler) Author of The Vagina Monologues

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