http://www.jennarwatson.com/about daily 0.75 2023-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/447e7c05-dd32-4894-863c-2e79052379eb/Jenna+Watson+headshot_002.JPG About http://www.jennarwatson.com/queer-indiana daily 0.75 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964428964-66AVV77LSN2342GFIGJL/queer_indianapolis001.JPG Queer Indiana Tracy, 57, and Tim Brown-Salsman, 59, residents of Loogootee, Indiana, pose for a portrait at home on Thursday, July 14, 2022. The married couple has lived in Loogootee, which is Tim's hometown of about 2,500 people, since 1997. "It's the small communities that need the voice," Tracy said. "We could have went to Indianapolis, or we could have went to Evansville or a bigger town and just carried on our lives for ourselves, but it's not just about us, it's about everybody." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964423416-9DIO7MNM5WH32YI4C1MC/queer_indianapolis002.JPG Queer Indiana Ty'la Dior Sanders, 23, is a lifelong Hoosier who attended Warren Central and grew up on the east side of Indianapolis. Sanders' gender expression was fluid throughout her teen years, before she found the words in young adulthood to identify as a transgender woman. “I didn't fully, fully feel affirmed in my womanhood and who I was as a woman until recently,” Sanders said. Sanders now works at Trans Solutions, a community resource and education center on 38th Street, and wants to help other Black trans women; a demographic that is particularly vulnerable to oppression and violence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964437409-VCZT9WL4NBDOUZTT174S/queer_indianapolis003.JPG Queer Indiana Kirin Clawson, second from left, waits in line to practice her runway walk Sunday, April 2, 2023, during rehearsal for the Trashion Refashion show in Bloomington, Ind. For the show, Clawson would model an outfit designed by Jeanne Smith. "We need trans kids as activists," Clawson said, "because we already have so many adults, but kids need a voice in saying what goes on because it's impacting them." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964444823-DH9438PT9DFPFAB5UZ65/queer_indianapolis004.JPG Queer Indiana Kayla Whaley hugs Tracy Brown-Salsman after a Loogootee Pride meeting at the town's library on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. Whaley moved back to her hometown of Loogootee in 2016 but didn't become friends with Tim and Tracy until 2019. "I really didn't have any type of friendship or community in Loogootee," Whaley said. "I spent three years not talking to anybody because it was frightening to go from someplace that was really accepting back to my hometown that was… not." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964453131-7IC27L933R5A2D8KR2EG/queer_indianapolis005.JPG Queer Indiana Chrissy Honig, her 14-year-old son Oliver and their dog Trixie sit together on the couch Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, at his home in Westfield, Ind. "I just hope that he's always confident enough to just be who he is," Chrissy said. "And even though he can't wear a sequined prom dress to school every day, that doesn't mean he can't express himself." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964461628-3JVEBMRSTESFV39OXQS5/queer_indianapolis005a.JPG Queer Indiana Leah Johnson unpacks books at her bookstore, Loudmouth Books, on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, in Indianapolis. Johnson, an author and owner of the shop, will sell books that have been banned by government and school systems, and books written by and for marginalized people. "I was angry," Johnson said. "I decided the same laws that allow you to deny service to queer people, on the basis of whatever your beliefs are, are the same laws that allow me to sell these stories that you all are so afraid of." The store opens September 30. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964462162-A9SU93YZY9EHE32TMWHE/queer_indianapolis006.JPG Queer Indiana A 16-year-old transgender girl swings in Indianapolis on Thursday, May 11, 2023. She asked to remain anonymous due to safety and privacy concerns. Her family has been rooted in Indianapolis for decades but is considering leaving the state due to recent legislation passed that will ban gender-affirming medical care, such as hormones, for transgender children in the state. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964475883-M34SGJICXO7MHY23G2MB/queer_indianapolis007A.JPG Queer Indiana Eliza Housman, center, and others protest outside the Indiana Senate Chamber on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, as the Senate Health and Provider Services Committee hears SB 480 at the Statehouse in Indianapolis. The bill, which passed committee 8-3, would ban gender-affirming medical or surgical treatment for minors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964476571-Z3LA0WV3KSXS07TP23VM/queer_indianapolis008.JPG Queer Indiana Kit Malone, advocacy strategist for the ACLU of Indiana, pauses for a moment while speaking during a Rally to Protect Trans Youth on Saturday, April 1, 2023, at the Statehouse in Indianapolis. "History is watching what happens here today, even, in this building," Malone said. "When history calls, I want to know that I was here, on the right side, doing everything I could to protect my people with my community right by me." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964487853-B3DMM4JRA15NJI3PLZQR/queer_indianapolis009.JPG Queer Indiana Veronica Pejril, left, a 58-year-old Greencastle city councilor, participates in a monthly council meeting on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. Pejril is Indiana's first openly transgender elected official. "I continue to play the long game with so many things in my life and I feel that I'm finally reaping the fruit of some of that stuff," Pejril said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964487352-X7LCCK7CBMKKW6OAQXRO/queer_indianapolis010.JPG Queer Indiana Lei Bretón is an inclusive fashion designer and owner of the House of Bretón in SoBro. Bretón works with clients of all body types and gender identities, many of whom are LGBTQ. "There's so much of the wedding industry that is catered to young, thin, white, straight, cis women, and so and I wanted to go as far away from that as possible," Bretón said. "Just last year I started doing suits. I did one suit, it kind of blew up a little bit because it was awesome, and now the majority of my clients this year are suits."Bretón prides themself on original designs that cater uniquely to each client, especially non-binary people, who identify outside of the two conventional binary gender identities of man or woman. "I want to make sure that other non-binary people can see inspiration from a non-binary wedding, as opposed to, 'well, I can make this work,' and they're really just creating looks out of thin air," Bretón said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964498188-SC8J5AUSRB09BD58K0A0/queer_indianapolis011.JPG Queer Indiana Sa'Hara Bea'Goddess Hall performs in a drag show hosted by Trans Solutions Research and Resource Center in celebration of International Transgender Day of Visibility on Thursday, March 31, 2022, at Meridian Park Event Center in Indianapolis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964500753-VXVQK95ETDWORIVWWIZQ/queer_indianapolis012.JPG Queer Indiana Jessica Bussert is the founder and CEO of Wave Therapeutics, a health technology startup based in Nashville, Indiana, that specializes in devices that prevent pressure injuries. Bussert was a longtime global computer consultant who lost her career due to discrimination when she came out as transgender 16 years ago. She eventually became a travel nurse, which inspired her current business endeavor. "The trans community is statistically unemployed or under-employed, all across the world. Those of us that have jobs don't work anywhere near our capability and that's all because of discrimination. I've experienced that again and again," Bussert said. "So creating Wave Therapeutics is not only an opportunity to help protect people from bed sores, but it's to help ensure that I and my family and other members in our community have one more opportunity at a discrimination-free employment class." To Bussert, Pride is about celebrating accomplishments of the past and those to come. "Every year, the world gets just a little bit better. Every person in the LGBTQ+ community is enjoying rights and privileges that were fought for by a group of pissed off trans women who fought the Stonewall riots. All our benefits are on the things that they had to suffer. What I do today hopefully will make the next generation have an easier go of it. And what they do will make the next generation have an easier go of it, until eventually, it'll be a non-issue and we won't need a Pride month. That's the goal, that's the hope." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964506745-YAFR5WGTIU4MYFYGP2LN/queer_indianapolis013.JPG Queer Indiana Reece Axel-Adams, a 19-year old Anderson resident, poses for a portrait at home on Sept. 6, 2022. During their senior year at Pendleton Heights High School, Axel-Adams helped revive the school's Gay-Straight Alliance and worked with the ACLU who filed a lawsuit against school administrators for discriminating against the club. Axel-Adams wants to study political science and hopes to become an Indiana lawmaker. "I was born and raised in Indiana and I don't want to give up on it. No matter what, we're still going to have LGBTQ folks in Indiana and they're going to need a voice," Axel-Adams said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702964518600-73BEH14ZDXNP4OW5SEA0/queer_indianapolis015.JPG Queer Indiana Betty Lynch and Annette Gross embrace during a rally celebrating the nationwide legality of same-sex marriage Friday, June 26, 2015, at the Statehouse in Indianapolis. 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In June 2017, Hewitt was declared free of the Ewing sarcoma cancer that led to his toe being amputated. One year later, Ewitt learned the cancer was back in his leg and will soon undergo amputation below the knee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979736763-4AXRH4L6X4I6Y0SDKISI/main+portfolio_007.JPG Photos President Barack Obama winks at the audience after speaking at Concord Community High School in Elkhart, Ind., addressing the city's economic success since 2009, Wednesday, June 1, 2016. Obama first visited Elkhart in January of 2009, his first trip as president. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979539154-0SX1LNUEF1JHCIHBD6L7/main+portfolio_006.JPG Photos Fargo shortstop Jake Salentine dives for a catch in attempt to tag East Grand Forks' Hunter Aubol, as he slides safely into second base during the game at Stauss Field Thursday evening. East Grand Forks Legion Post 157 lost to Fargo Legion Post 2, with a final score of 3-6. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979549909-L534KEB18WBGZYPHN52H/main+portfolio_008.JPG Photos New Castle freshman Tylin Thrine and Merrillville High School senior Nasir Christion wrestle in a 126-pound match Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, during IHSAA wrestling state final preliminaries at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979515762-CDJ6W67070FGA2LE28ZC/main+portfolio_003.JPG Photos Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing driver Takuma Sato (30) kisses the Borg-Warner Trophy on the yard of bricks on Monday, August 24, 2020, the day after he won the 104th running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979531788-V5DQOQ8HQD1CCNLWV8BT/main+portfolio_004.JPG Photos Elderly spectators watch as the 500 Festival Parade passes through downtown Indianapolis, Saturday, May 26, 2018. The mid-day parade takes place a day before the Indy 500 mile race. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979547719-JYT6TKN71WIR3Y6GQS7W/main+portfolio_009.JPG Photos Guerin Catholic's Zach Thieme works through hole 9 on the second day of IHSAA boys golf state finals Wednesday, June 14, 2023, at Prairie View Golf Club in Carmel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702984210808-Z6BXY2HNM2S1ME942LWG/main+portfolio_010.JPG Photos - main portfolio_010.JPG Lawrence North junior Trinity Brady (3), center, goofs around with teammates before a game at Center Grove High School, Greenwood, Ind., Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. A car accident in 2016 left Trinity with a traumatic brain injury, causing severe chronic head pain and mental setbacks like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. In the past year, Trinity has finally found treatment to improve her chronic pain. While she is still working through some mental and physical setbacks, she is once again a leading scorer for Lawrence North. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979557130-OPCJ23EJJJGC97IHGJ0N/main+portfolio_012.JPG Photos Anthony Wallace holds his daughter Charlotte, pictured at 10 months old, at his Indianapolis home on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. Anthony's wife Chaniece died from complications of preeclampsia a few days after giving birth to Charlotte by emergency c-section, four weeks before her due date. “Your life is completely altered and is completely thrown off track when you experience the death of someone who’s a spouse and who’s a mother,” Wallace said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979562495-8Q721T9V1MEHX5FLZ0J3/main+portfolio_011.JPG Photos Perry Meridian's Kayla O'Brian is comforted by Perry Meridian distance coach Laura Schroeder at the finish line of the 3200 meter run, at the IHSAA girls track and field sectional at Decatur Central High School, Indianapolis, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. O'Brian placed fifth in 12:14.17, but only those who place in the top three advance to IHSAA regionals at Ben Davis High School, May 24, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979500808-BG5O5OB4G48E660K699H/main+portfolio_002.JPG Photos The Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Parris Campbell (1) reaches to keep the ball inside the pylon for a touchdown as he's tackled by Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Darious Williams (31) on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022, during a game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The Colts won, 34-27. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979576474-D8J20XE8U0KX520H9K9M/main+portfolio_013.JPG Photos Georgia Bulldogs wide receiver Ladd McConkey (84) lays in confetti after winning the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The Georgia Bulldogs defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide in the College Football playoff National Championship, 33-18, earning the title for the first time in 41 years. They clinched the win with several touchdowns in the fourth quarter. A 40-yard touchdown by Adonai Mitchell (5), pictured second, gave Georgia a 19-18 lead with 8:09 left in the game. Next came a 15-yard touchdown by Brock Bowers (19) with 3:33 left, and finally, Kelee Ringo (5) intercepted from Alabama and ran for a 79-yard touchdown with about a minute on the clock, sealing the deal for Georgia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979576647-L5BSX283MJ9I5JP0D3Q2/main+portfolio_014.JPG Photos LaKimba DeSadier, Indiana Director for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, speaks to a crowd of more than a thousand during a rally for abortion rights on Saturday, June 25, 2022, at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. The rally turned into a march around the city. There was also an anti-abortion rally held in the afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979580099-4SXYU5Q81YTSPPHSWIYK/main+portfolio_015.JPG Photos The casket of Boone County Deputy Jacob Pickett is transported to the hearse after his funeral service Connection Pointe Christian Church in Brownsburg, Ind., Friday, March 9, 2018. Pickett was fatally shot the morning of Friday, March 2, while chasing a man fleeing from police. He was a five-year veteran of the department and is survived by his wife Jennifer and two young children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979592582-6RAHQCA4CGAEYO51J7J1/main+portfolio_016.JPG Photos Lisa Brown, a manager of the Indianapolis Police Department's Victims Assistance Unit, was on-site after eight people were killed in a mass shooting at the FedEx Ground Plainfield Operations Center on April 15, 2021. “We knew there was nothing that we could say or do that was going to make it better,” Brown said. At times, she says she simply sat in silence with families as they waited to find out the fate of their loved ones. She poses for a portrait on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, at the City-County Building in Indianapolis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979596408-LNX75DPCREMYFUCX6Z7O/main+portfolio_017.JPG Photos United States forward Megan Rapinoe (15) is surrounded by journalists as she answers questions during a U.S. soccer press conference July 30, 2023, amid the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Auckland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979600471-T4V2G1AVR9KDLJII6INZ/main+portfolio_018.JPG Photos Netherlands midfielder Victoria Pelova (17) heads the ball during the second half in a group stage match July 27, 2023, for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup at Wellington Regional Stadium in New Zealand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979617898-B9S0LHDI7GJP2UO9FF2N/main+portfolio_019.JPG Photos Lawrence North celebrates after defeating Cathedral in the fifth set at Lawrence North High School, Indianapolis, Thursday, September 8, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5446dd60e4b0ff6f68b054c1/1702979605740-GDS0JWUZ3RS8ZP9PWHT8/main+portfolio_020.JPG Photos Team Penske driver Josef Newgarden (2) climbs out of his car on the yard of bricks after winning the 107th running of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 28, 2023, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.