Hi there Hisuitake, Welcome to the club! No need for labels. Thank you for sharing your multicultural heritage with us. I also have an interracial family, and my skin is a reminder to me to give others always the acceptance for who they are that I would want for myself. We all bleed the same. Thank you for joining friend!
I am in the mood to share a topic question with our community! Enjoyed any media with an lgbt dynamic lately, like a movies/TV, fiction or non-fiction books, radio channels, magazines etc?
I am wrapping up the book The Color Purple by Alice Walker, haven't seen the new movie musical, this is strictly a book opinion. I found it a poignant read. There was terrible pain in it, the first half being the most brutal. Trigger warnings include racial hate crimes, substance use, domestic violence, death, sexual assault, child marriage, but it resides within a full spectrum of human emotions that include tenderness, humor, wisdom and good turns of fortune's wheel along with the bad, and many well-drawn portraits of women and their complex relationships and arcs. The love that our protagonist, the shy, hardworking Celie, has for the sassy, glamorous Shug is a central part of the story, something warm, good and beautiful that enters her life after so many traumas and awakens not just romantic love in her for the first time but helps her to love herself.
I have got myself a collection of early novels and stories by James Baldwin that I will be taking a look at next, including Giovanni's Room and Another Country, which I think would also be relevant to this club. The former is about an American expatriate living in France in the 1950s, who is at war with being himself because he is gay, but in trying to run away from parts of his life, he will of course discover himself. The latter as I understand it will be about many types of intimacy, married couples, opposite and same sex relationships, interracial romance, in an exploration of human emotion.