Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is using her voice to ensure more Black, queer stories get told - Queerty
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from Queerty3 months ago
The way that I live my life, around the people that I live my life around, I am public about it. I'm very clear about being bisexual. I have a sweatshirt that says 'Girl Bi' that I wear everywhere.
Queertyhttps://www.queerty.com/aunjanue-ellis-taylor-is-using-her-voice-to-ensure-more-black-queer-stories-get-told-20240623
The solitude of that is so lonely, it's violent. It's violent because you literally have to tuck and place so many parts of you to be acceptable, so people won't run from you and don't want to be around you.
Queertyhttps://www.queerty.com/aunjanue-ellis-taylor-is-using-her-voice-to-ensure-more-black-queer-stories-get-told-20240623
It wasn't until the age of 30 that Ellis-Taylor decided to hell with it, and claimed her queer identity.
Queertyhttps://www.queerty.com/aunjanue-ellis-taylor-is-using-her-voice-to-ensure-more-black-queer-stories-get-told-20240623
The Color Purple is a book about Black lesbians. Whether the choice was made to focus on that or not in the cinematic iterations of The Color Purple, it's still.
Queertyhttps://www.queerty.com/aunjanue-ellis-taylor-is-using-her-voice-to-ensure-more-black-queer-stories-get-told-20240623
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