A Bundle of Sticks: Building a queer publication, with John Furno

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Today on the podcast we have John Furno, Founder of Bundle of Sticks - A queer publication, proudly sharing coming out stories to help and inspire the LGBTQ + community.

Having gone through his coming out experience all alone, John decided to help others.

A Bundle of Sticks started as a Facebook page, where he enocuraged other people to share their coming out stories. He’s since turned it into a publication, where people from all around the world have shared their own stories to help other people feel less alone. The magazine has been sent around the world - from the US, to Israel to South Africa.

This is is not a story of something that has gone viral, but rather a story of a project with deep impact. The stories have caused school bullies to reach out to apologise, and fathers to reach out to make amends. This is a story about the power of stories themselves to change people’s minds. 

We talk about how John created the first edition, how to balance side projects with everything else, his experience of coming out and the life changing journey of self acceptance.

LINKS:

Join the Out of Hours Sprint here: https://www.outofhours.org/courses/sideprojectsprint

Submit your story to A Bundle of Sticks here: https://www.abundleofsticks.com/

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