Stories of Coming Out and Coming Home

Dr Asiel Adán Sánchez

GP and award-winning poet Dr Asiel Adán Sánchez and their mother share their journey as a Mexican Australian family into understanding and embracing Asiel as a queer non-binary young person. Asiel shares their experience growing up in Mexico, finding their queer identity in Australia as a young adult, and weaving together their queerness and Mexican heritage on their return to Mexico years later to share their authentic self with extended family and through their poetry. Karina, their mother, shares a heart-wrenching story of past family loss; pain that was transformed into loving embrace for her son. (English, Mexican Spanish) El médico general y poeta galardonado Dr. Asiel Adán Sánchez y su madre comparten su recorrido como familia mexicana-australiana hacia la comprensión y aceptación de Asiel como una persona joven queer y no binaria. Asiel comparte su experiencia creciendo en México, descubriendo su identidad queer en Australia como joven adulto, y entrelazando su queerness y herencia mexicana al regresar a México años después para mostrar su yo auténtico a la familia extendida y a través de su poesía. Karina, su madre, comparte una desgarradora historia de pérdida familiar pasada; dolor que se transformó en un abrazo amoroso para su hijo. (Inglés, español mexicano) Chapters [Capítulos]: * (0:00) Introduction [Introducción] * (3:14) Discovering their gender and sexual identity across cultures [Descubriendo su identidad de género y sexual a través de culturas] * (28:34) Asiel's mother joins the conversation (a story of past family loss) [La madre de Asiel se une a la conversación (una historia de pérdida familiar pasada)] * (51:52) Asiel reads their poem "Make-Up Lessons" [Asiel lee su poema "Lecciones de maquillaje"] * (1:02:34) Relationship with extended family, community and culture [Relación con la familia extendida, la comunidad y la cultura] * (1:23:13) A mother's message to other parents [Mensaje de una madre a otros padres] Asiel's published book of poetry 'M/ /otherland' www.revarena.com/m-otherland [https://www.revarena.com/m-otherland] Libro de poemas publicado por Asiel "La Otra Matria [https://www.revarena.com/product-page/la-otra-matria-de-asiel-ad%25C3%25A1n-s%25C3%25A1nchez]" Transcript here [https://www.comingoutcominghome.au/stories/dr-asiel-adan-sanchez] [ Transcripción traducida aqui [https://www.comingoutcominghome.au/stories/dr-asiel-adan-sanchez] ] https://www.comingoutcominghome.au/stories/dr-asiel-adan-sanchez [https://www.comingoutcominghome.au/stories/dr-asiel-adan-sanchez]