Life in The Hinterlands; Growing up Gay & Mixed Race on The Isle of WhitePosted in Articles, Autobiography, Gay & Lesbian, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2017-12-05 17:26Z by Steven |
Life in The Hinterlands; Growing up Gay & Mixed Race on The Isle of White
The Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe
2017-05-09
Ashley Thomas
Life as a mixed gay man seems a singular experience.
Who, what and where are the fluid foundations on which I’m constructed, construed and constrained. To some I am black but not Black, clearly not white or not Black enough. To others, I am an undecided shade of, well, I suppose you might say…
…Brown?
The Isle of Wight is a brilliant homophone. With its crumbling chalk and its crumbling people, it’s REALLY FUCKING WHITE. It’s located somewhere between the English south coast and 27 years ago. The island could seem blank or barren, but this is no creative backwater. At best, rural seaside racism is imaginative: I admired coconut-kicker most for its tropical rhythm…
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