LGBTQ+ Voices: Interview with Kristi Carter

Segment Synopsis: Pronouns, location and time.

Segment Synopsis: 1:08: Birthplace and childhood community of Stokes County, North Carolina; 1:52: Politics of North Carolina during childhood; 2:40: Growing up in a difficult, dysfunctional family; 3:28: Awareness of family abuse; 4:02: Drifting apart from brother

Segment Synopsis: 4:59: Young LGBT identity; 5:21: Awareness of being different from exposure to art and literature; 6:04: Lack of involvement in LGBTQ+ community in North Carolina; 7:05: First time hearing LGBTQ+ terms such as gay, queer, and homosexual; 7:30: Elementary and middle school; 7:42: Gender expectations and roles; 8:30: Bullying during puberty and adolescence; 9:11: Getting involved with art and writing; 11:02: Writing poetry

Segment Synopsis: 11:26: Religious upbringing in the Baptist Church of Christ; 12:12: Grandparents acceptance of LGBTQ+ people

Segment Synopsis: 17:17: Heteronormativity and being taken less seriously ; 18:00: Being careful to not get caught, sneaking around; 18:12: Getting in trouble for PDA with girlfriend; 19:36: Realization of pansexuality; 20:57: Stress of being discovered or outed; 22:43: Lack of LGBT support outside of dating and friends; 23:33: Depictions of LGBT people in media; 24:29: Long-term effects of hiding sexuality; 24:53: Being erased by male partners or being invisible; 26:08: Being erased or invalidated by LGBT community; 27:38: Improvement in stigma against pansexual and bisexual people

Segment Synopsis: 28:43: Family's awareness of sexuality; 29:53: Impact of estrangement from family; 30:41: Finding chosen family; 31:13: Friends, partner and his family; 31:42: Relationship with partner Alan; 32:00: Alan's gender fluidity, expression; 32:42: Alan's acceptance and validation of Kristi

Segment Synopsis: 34:56: Meeting very few LGBT people; 36:20: Decision to get MFA

Segment Synopsis: 38:50: Diversity of PhD committee; 39:40: Practicing self-care; 40:18: Intergenerational trauma (Marianne Hirsch); 41:38: Dissertation on feminist poetry in 20th and 21st century; 42:47: Development of feminist identity; 43:47: Finishing PhD, teaching at UNL; 44:20: Negative reaction from students in Gender Studies classes; 46:30: Homophobia/transphobia in online classes

Segment Synopsis: 49:48: Not coming out to students, feelings of conflict; 52:54: Most impactful, meaningful part of teaching

Segment Synopsis: 54:23: Stacey Waite, UNL Professor of English and Composition; 56:23: Kwame Dawes, UNL Professor of English; 57:23: Maureen Honey, UNL Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies

Segment Synopsis: 58:12: Teaching Intro to LGBTQ+ Studies at UNL; 59:43: Voices of Hope advocate; 1:00:28: Francie and Finch

Segment Synopsis: 1:01:37: Chapbook, Daughter Shaman Sings Blood Anthem (2017); 1:03:17: Book, Cosmovore (2017); 1:05:41: Chapbook, Red and Vast (2018); 1:06:58: Kristi reads aloud her poem "Apology, for E" (2017)

Segment Synopsis: 1:13:03: Sundress Poem (2014); 1:14:16: Pushcart Award Nominations (2017)

Segment Synopsis: 1:16:20: Pansexual identity; 1:18:20: Discrimination for identity; 1:19:50: Insights on family as an adult; 1:22:36: Feeling invisible in the LGBTQ+ community

Segment Synopsis: 1:23:26: Transphobic bathroom bills; 1:24:43: Defense of Marriage Act

Segment Synopsis: 1:28:03: What Kristi would tell her younger self; 1:29:08: What Kristi would tell LGBTQ+ youth ; 1:30:06: What Kristi wants to be remembered for; 1:30:35: Last thoughts