Last weekend I finally saw the Power Rangers remake, and boy, did it exceed my expectations. But first, a story… I remember play fighting with my younger brother (we were around 6 and 7 years old) at a local high school where my older brother attended. We were under the care of his teenage friend and pretending […]
Tag: Diversity
Rounded Characters and Big Questions
I was recently interviewed by Ecelctica Cafe, a podcast hosted by Dustin and Chance, where we discussed topics of diversity in media, some politics, and what you can expect from my upcoming book, Pangaea: Unsettled Land. We continued a discussion started after my writing of the LGBT Fiction article and I’m happy to have been […]
Comic Views
Despite the turbulent news this past week, there were some exciting character announcements that made us all sit up. In comics, the mantle of Iron Man will soon be taken over by Riri Williams, a black teenage girl. In movies, we’ve heard that the popular Star Trek character, Sulu, will now be an openly gay role. […]
The Importance of Black Gay Visibility
Have you ever felt excluded from everything? You come home from work or school, where you’ve been wearing a mask all day, and you want to just be okay with yourself for a few hours. So you pop in a videogame, you watch your favorite TV show, or you read the latest literary craze, but […]
The Marketability of Gay Fiction
Last week I listened to a podcast by Eclectica Cafe on Soundcloud where they spoke with a group of LGBT and allied writers about the state of gay fiction in the publishing industry. What some of the members of Out in Colorado had to say really resonated with me. I feel the same as they in their […]
A Black Slave Master
The Known World Edward P. Jones’s novel takes a unique angle on the slave narrative with its focus on a black slave owner. In my new YouTube video, I give my initial impressions of the first 100 pages and talk about what we can take away from it as writers. One thing of note about […]
Plot Twist
My goal as a gay, black author is to add more gay characters of color to the stories in which we indulge. It has been my experience growing up that in none of the media that I watched, read, played, or listened to has there been any main character that truly represented who I was. […]