It’s not too many year ago when the idea of coming out at the beginning of your acting career would have been seen as almost inevitably career killing. However now more and more young actors are feeling the ability to be open about their sexuality, and that includes Amandla Stenberg, who revealed she is Bisexual during a Snapchat takeover for Teen Vogue.
Stenberg is perhaps best known for playing the pivotal Rue in The Hunger Games, and has also been seen in the likes of Colobiana, Sleepy Hollow and most recently Mr Robinson. At the end of the Snapchat session, Stenberg said, “It’s a really, really hard thing to be silenced and it’s deeply bruising to fight against your identity and to mold yourself into shapes that you just shouldn’t be in.
“As someone who identifies as a black bisexual woman, I’ve been through it, and it hurts, and it’s awkward and it’s uncomfortable, but then I realized because of Solange and Ava Duvernay and Willow and all the black girls watching this right now, there is absolutely nothing to change. We cannot be suppressed. We are meant to express our joy and our love and our tears and be big and bold and definitely not easy to swallow.”
She adds that problems with diversity and representation need to be fought against, “And not just women of color. Bisexual women, gay women, transgender women, mentally ill women – I am sick of all the misogyny and homopobia and transphobia I see around me and I know you are, too.”
You can take a look at Stenberg’s comments, via her Tumblr, below.
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