Non-Normative Gender and Sexual Identities in Schools: - Schools Out

Interview with Silver ~ LGYM 17/06/08
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AM: Interviewer (Amy MacMillan)
S: Silver
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Transcript:
S: Hi my name’s Mark James, Um I I’ve been doing lots of work on the Exceeding
Expectations um anti-homophobic bullying campaign in school and the thing was I went
to [//] I returned to my old school, um exactly ten years to the day in which is left, um to
not just come out but to (sigh) do it as like a political thing, for um you know my rights,
my freedom and to show that you know that I I’ve survived many hardships since and
you know I’m always stronger for that um, and it its been a, it was a challenge [//] …
AM: {yeah}
S: …um but I was always prepared for that challenge. I mean as soon as I left I knew I
would come back ten years later.
AM: Right.
S: …and um…
AM: {like a target?
S: …yeah, even though at the time I left I was mentally and emotionally scarred, um [//] I
knew that I would come back stronger and brash and bold and it felt good to achieve
going back to create some change, um to show my previous teachers that were still there
that you know I’m a different person then when I left, but I just thought you know, it’s a
funny irony to turn up on the exact same day as I left ten years ago…
AM: {yeah}