![]() ![]() When not writing, Jo devotes time to her community, serving on the boards of Equality Texas, the Anti-Defamation League of Central Texas, and the Ground Floor Theater. In The Outskirts of Hope, Ivester uses journals left by her mother, as well as writings of her own, to paint a vivid, moving, and inspiring portrait of her family's experiences living and working in an all-black town during the height of the civil rights movement. Her second book - Once a Girl, Always a Boy - presents her son’s journey, told from multiple perspectives, beginning when he was a small child, viewed as a tomboy. ![]() This experience, captured in Jo’s first book - The Outskirts of Hope - led to Jo’s lifelong commitment to advocating for equal rights for all.Prompted by the realization that her son is trans, Jo has recently broadened her focus to raise awareness about what it means to be transgender. Jo also wrote The Outskirts of Hope, a 2015 memoir based on her memories and her. Raised in a politically active family, Jo spent two years of her childhood living in an all- Black town in the Mississippi Delta, where her father managed a medical clinic, her mother taught in the local high school, and she was the only white student at her junior high. About 30 years ago, Jo Ivester gave birth to a baby girl named Emily. Jo Ivester is an LGBTQ and civil rights advocate, sharing her family’s story as a way of helping others to step beyond their comfort zones when it comes to relating to those who are different from themselves. ![]()
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