Lived Experiences: Rio Antoné

We now return with our newest Lived Experiences story! Get hype! This time, I spoke with the amazing Rio Antoné (uses universal pronouns) who is a multimodal artist, changemaker, award-winning advocate, storyteller, educator, artist, and media personality. Rio's own powerful experiences transcend mental health challenges, self-discovery, and public health experiences as we discussed:

• growing up Black and Queer in Flint, Michigan
• working in the sexual health space related to HIV and STI testing
• what it means to be non-binary
• Rio's upcoming book, Manifest Destiny: Crafting the Life You've Always Imagined

Enjoy!! 😊

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Thank you for listening in! I want to thank Rio for sharing their story, perspective, and creativity with us today, and for continuing to create spaces where queer and trans people can be seen in the fullness of who they are. You may visit Rio’s website (rioantone.com) in the episode description so you can learn more. Look out for their book, Manifest Destiny: Crafting the Life You've Always Imagined, releasing later this Fall 2026!

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The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speaker's and guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of the organizations they are apart of or the people with whom they collaborate.

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