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Featured Guest on The Masks We Wear Podcast

August 27, 2025

Written, edited, and produced by Quincy M. Simmons, The Masks We Wear is about the facades we build to protect ourselves. It features stories about personal experiences, identity, and mental health, all while exploring comic book culture, anime, and fiction generally.

I had an opportunity to join Quincy to talk about the importance of origin stories and rewriting our origin stories as an act of liberation. You can listen to the full episode below:

Quincy also joined me as a guest on Social Justice Origin Stories to talk about his journey of creating The Masks We Wear. Visit the project website for Quincy’s episode: Exploring Identity and Mental Health Through Comics, Anime, and Culture.

If you like, you can also listen to his episode here:

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Relando Thompkins-Jones

I'm a macro social worker, social justice educator, and consultant who uses media and education to advance equity and social justice within people, organizations, and communities. I am also the Founder, Host, Editor and Producer of Social Justice Origin Stories, a storytelling project that highlights the personal stories and defining moments that have inspired individuals and organizations to labor for equity and social justice. I started Social Justice Origin Stories because I believe in the power of storytelling and making our experiences accessible to others, because I believe in the liberatory effects of social justice education, to support justice-seekers in finding community and feeling less alone given the relentlessness of oppressive systems, and hopefully to be a resource of support and reflection for those who are thinking through how they could best contribute to the work. We need all who can, to do what they can.