The photo "Rob and Julie" is part of the "Pioneering Voices: Portraits of Transgender People" exhibit at the Jackson Public Library throughout October. (COURTESY PHOTO)
The photo "Rob and Julie" is part of the "Pioneering Voices: Portraits of Transgender People" exhibit at the Jackson Public Library throughout October. (COURTESY PHOTO)
JACKSON — "Pioneering Voices: Portraits of Transgender People," a touring photo-text display created by the award-winning Family Diversity Projects of Amherst, Mass., is on display at the Jackson Public Library through October as part of the One Book One Valley celebration.
This year, the featured book for One Book One Valley is "Becoming Nicole," by Amy Ellis-Nutt. The book follows the journey of the Maines family as they raise their adopted twin boys, Jonas and Wyatt. And then their struggle over Wyatt’s insistence that he was female began to tear the family apart. In the years that followed, the Maineses came to question their long-held views on gender and identity, to accept Wyatt’s transition to Nicole, and to undergo a wrenching transformation of their own, the effects of which would reverberate through their entire community.
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