Faith Curriculum Library: Common Read: A Community for Learning and Reflection

Video Segments

Part of Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families

The Authentic Selves Common Read resource development team prepared these videos for the workshops. They can also help you publicize and prepare for your engagement with the book.

Use this video to promote your Common Read gatherings:

Why It Is Important This Book Is a Common Read

Why Is It Important That This Book Is a UU Common Read? (Vimeo, 10:40). Share the link in a congregational email with contact information for a person who's organizing the Common Read. Or, show the video after Sunday worship or another congregational gathering. Once your Common Read is scheduled, you might invite participants who haven't viewed it to do so before the first meeting.

These videos, used in the workshops, are also valuable on their own:

  1. Introduction to a Panel of the Book's Participant Authors (Vimeo, 5:05)
  2. Retrospective: Telling Their Stories for Authentic Selves (Vimeo, 7:44)
  3. My Relationship with My Family after Telling My Story (Vimeo, 6:18)
  4. Challenges and Needs (Vimeo, 6:00)
  5. Trans Euphoria and Thriving (Vimeo, 4:48)
  6. Advice to Teens (for Youth Workshops) (Vimeo, 4:02)