Nita Agustin is a Queer and gender-affirming clinical counselor based in Burnaby, B.C., Canada. Their jam is helping Queer youth and young adults find alignment within themselves so they can feel confident showing up in their own skin. This is accomplished by finding words to name their experiences and discovering ways to live on their own terms. In this episode, Nita describes coming out in the pressure-cooker scenario of the pandemic, being Queer in Southeast Asian Indonesian culture, emerging and moving on from Catholicism, what it’s like working with Queer youth, and much more!

Nita’s coming out songs are You Need to Calm Down by Taylor Swift https://youtu.be/Dkk9gvTmCXY?si=Johjz5xpyLOuiWBE, and Born This Way by Lady Gaga https://youtu.be/wV1FrqwZyKw?si=UG7Ni7No52BLYkrZ.

A book that inspired Nita is Me, Myself and They: Life Beyond the Binary by Luna Ferguson.

A program that has inspired Nita is I am Jazz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Jazz

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coming-out-beyond-lgbtqia-stories/id1569859569 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/27kocr4llm6syHKaeX1x9e

Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vY29taW5nb3V0YW5kYmV5b25kLw?sa=X…