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The It Gets Better Project started as a viral video movement, with more than 70,000 people sharing their stories in support of LGBTQ+ youth. Now, those videos are back with a fresh look and feel, and kicking things off is 23-year-old artist, director, and author Chella Man.
“Being deaf made me really wanna figure out… how can I express myself without sound,” Chella Man — who identifies as "curious, stubborn, Deaf, transmasculine, genderqueer, Jewish, and Chinese" — explains in his video. “Going to school, so many hours... you just sit there with a pencil and paper for hours on end. And sometimes schooling wasn’t accessible to me, I couldn’t understand the teacher, I couldn’t hear the teacher, and I didn’t know sign language fluently. But I had a piece of paper and a pencil. That’s the place I felt most free.”
The reimagined look and feel of our It Gets Better videos mirrors a shift in how the art of storytelling has evolved over the years. This inside look at our subjects takes viewers through their personal stories in an honest way and feels reflective of where today’s LGBTQ+ youth are: constantly evolving, consistently learning, and purposefully bold in being unapologetically themselves.
Chella Man’s video is the first in a series of new It Gets Better videos, more of which will premiere this year.
Watch and share our It Gets Better video with Chella Man, check back for more It Gets Better videos coming soon, and check out our library of original It Gets Better content.
Eboni Munn
Director, Brand Marketing, Content & Creative
It Gets Better Project
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