Interview Presentation
Interview Presentation
PRESENTATION
Abigail Neeley
BACKGROUND
Age: 25
Gender: Cisgender Male
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Religion: Catholic
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Class: Lower class
THINGS HE VIEWED AS OPPRESSIVE
Age: “I came into college a bit later than everyone else. It’s been a lot harder to connect with people
on campus and make close friends because I’m older than most people.”
Ethnicity: “Being Hispanic has caused some issues for me, mostly with people making rude
comments. Especially when Trump was in office, that’s when it was the worst.”
Sexual orientation: “It’s been a challenge being bisexual, especially growing up with a really strict
Catholic family. I didn’t even tell them until last year. They didn’t take it well, and now some of my
family doesn’t talk to me.”
Class: “Growing up in a lower-class family has definitely been really challenging. My parents were
almost never home because they were working all the time. They also couldn’t help me out with
paying for college, so I was working full time for a while so that I could afford it. I feel like I’ve
missed a lot of opportunities because I’ve always been working so much.”
THINGS HE VIEWED AS PRIVILEGE
• Gender: “As a cis male, I find that I am definitely privileged in that aspect. I
almost always feel pretty safe if I’m out somewhere at night, and I also never
really worry about going places by myself.”
• Religion: “I grew up Catholic, so I never really had any issues with other
people because of it. The only time I ever had a problem because of being
Catholic was more so with my sexuality, and I guess kind of oppression from
the church.”
OTHER KEY POINTS
• When I first met him, he told me his name was something very different than what it actually was. I noticed
that when he met new people, he would introduce himself as one of two very different names depending on
the person.
• “It’s kind of complicated. Most of the time, if I meet someone who I think doesn’t speak Spanish, I’ll tell them
my name is something different. People have a really hard time pronouncing my name sometimes if they don’t
speak Spanish, and sometimes new people can be rude and make racist comments. I’ve also noticed that I
connect with people better sometimes if I don’t use my Spanish name, depending on the person. The same
thing the other way around. If I meet someone new who does speak Spanish, I’ll tell them my real name and
we’ll normally have a closer connection. It’s really interesting.”