Steel Magnolias 2.0
April 18, 2021
Alaiyia N. Williams
, MSW, LCSW
Humble Beginnings (Pre-PFLAG)
School Days: “The Wonderless Years” (Pre-PFLAG)
“Brand New Girl/Whole New World: Entering College” (Pre-PFLAG)
“She Works Hard for the Money: Well, She Tried.”
My Introduction to PFLAG- New Orleans
The Fight Never Ends
The Day the World Stopped Spinning & How it changed its Axis
In Closing
Recent Posts
June 28, 2021
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is possibly the most LGBTQ+ friendly show I’ve ever seen. To summarize, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is a remake of a popular 90’s He-Man spin-off. The new show has absolutely nothing to do with He-Man. Instead, the main character Adora is a soldier for the evil Horde, who finds a magic sword in the forest and becomes She-Ra. She then learns that the Horde is evil and helps unite the princesses in a rebellion against them. It is an epic tale o [...]
March 8, 2021
I was licensed to practice law in Louisiana this year. Some people would say that this is mybiggest accomplishment, and in some ways it is. It is the pinnacle of my academic career, butwhat makes this such a proud moment for me is knowing that I was able to make it this far in mylife as a trans person.Growing up, I thought that gender roles always had and always would exist, and I didn’tquestion the role I was born into as a female. Even though I knew on some level I was different,I couldn [...]
August 16, 2020
Just a couple of weeks more than five years ago, PFLAG New Orleans – Expanding The Rainbow aired it's first live show on WHIV LP, 102.3 FM New Orleans. The story of the connection between PFLAG NO and WHIV LP goes back a couple of months earlier. WHIV LP was licensed and had its first broadcast on World AIDS Day, December 1st of 2014, shortly after that PFLAG NO board members looked into the possibility of donating to the station. Along with the donation, an interest [...]








