Come out, come out, wherever you are!
For National Coming Out Day, SPEQ:TRUM creator & host Jamie Nonis shares her own coming out stories and experiences from coming out at 15 in school, coming out to a relative at 25 and even coming out to a Catholic nun once, to her journey to finally being open and out in the workplace.
In this episode, filmmaker Charmaine Wong interviews Jamie in a poetic twist of events, as Jamie was one of the interviewees in Charmaine’s documentary called ‘Pink IC’ more than 15 years ago. In her documentary, Charmaine explored whether the LGBTQ+ community has a place within the larger Singaporean identity and her film was featured in Short Circuit, Singapore’s very first LGBTQ+ film festival in 2006.
Jamie speaks out openly about the hiring discrimination she faced early in her career, getting eyeballed top to toe in job interviews, and how she felt she had to conceal her gender identity in her first job. All of which she’s never shared publicly before.
She also shares some of the social experiments she used to do in my early 20s, just for the fun of it, where she would dress as a girlier girl versus dressing more tomboy, and observe the difference in the way she was treated by strangers in society.
Finally, Jamie also talks about the importance of seeing LGBTQ+ characters and representation in the media, and her hopes and dreams for the podcast.
