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Odelia
Season 2
Episode 8
In season 2 episode 8 of PBS Digital Studios' First Person, host Kirya Traber sits down with Odelia - a teen poet who is navigating the equal importance of her queer and Modern Orthodox Jewish identities. Odelia shares what it was like to come out in an Orthodox community and the role poetry has played in her personal evolution.
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