“I didn’t see any Black asexual superheroes so I became one”
Oct 01, 2021
4 minutes
I was always drawn to people who didn’t fit the status quo. My superheroes didn’t wear capes. They were just people who knew and owned their power, carved their own space and were unapologetically themselves. It was that punk rock attitude that gave them flight in my mind, as I learned from a young age that I needed that attitude to get through life. I grew up never seeing reflections of who I was. I didn’t see people like me on television, I didn’t see people like me in the streets. Being the only Black girl in the room wasn’t an unusual experience.
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