Joe Brettillo and Carlos Kyles
Recorded
September 17, 2022
Archived
September 17, 2022
46:06 minutes
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Id:
ddv002044
Description
Joe Brettillo (50) and One Small Step partner Carlos Kyles (37) about their experiences feeling ostracized from their communities, influential family members, and their spirituality.Subject Log / Time Code
CK describes his ostracizing experience on the Alabama State dance team.
JB connects with CK over his experience being bulled in a rural suburb in Denver for his ethnicity.
CK and JB share the type of martial arts they study and what it has taught them.
CK remembers a traumatic situation that he was proud he overcame and the character development it initiated.
JB describes his experience growing up with multiple ethnicities and being a parent to tri-racial children.
JB and CK discuss the prominence and harm of stereotypes.
JB and CK acknowledge family members who have had the most influence on them.
CK open up about the abuse that he faced from his step-father growing up.
JB shares his transition from practicing Catholicism to Buddhism.
CK and JB exchange sacred texts in their practices that have moved them.
Participants
- Joe Brettillo
- Carlos Kyles