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AUTHOR: Gee Smalls
PUBLISHER: Juan & Gee Enterprises
LANGUAGE: English
DATE: 2019
PAGES: 364
ISBN: 9781733082808
Black Enough Man Enough: Embracing My Mixed Race and Sexual Fluidity
by Gee Smalls
I knew I was different, called ‘faggot-ass half-breed, ‘ teased for my light bright skin, soft curly afro, freckly face, and feminine ways. Growing up the child of a black daddy and white momma in the black Gullah Geechee culture on James Island, South Carolina in the 80’s, I was an outsider.
My adolescent identity crisis of racial and sexual confusion lead to a trip down the aisle with my high school sweetheart, the joy of fatherhood, and then into the shadows of the down-low before divorce and a tumultuous custody battle. As I embraced all of who I am, I developed my voice, using it to speak out on the racial and LGBT equality movements, as well as to say ‘I do’ to marry the man I love and create a realistic 21st century blended family.
INCLUSION CRITERIA
Author Gee Smalls identifies as sexually fluid.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 1. Different
- 2. The Smalls Family
- 3. Faggot-Ass Half-Breed
- 4. Love Her, Love Her Not
- 5. Curious
- 6. Husband and Wife
- 7. Baby Boy
- 8. On the DL
- 9. Bruthafree
- 10. Out and In
- 11. Desperate Measures
- 12. Loving Me
- 13. Daddy’s Dead
- 14. Head Over Timbs
- 15. Love and Losses
- 16. Fighting to Father
- 17. Parent or Paramour?
- 18. Husband and Husband
- 19. The New Normal
- 20. Breaking Traditions
- 21. Open Minded
- 22. Not the White Mother
- 23. Everlasting
- 24. You Are White Too
- 25. No Rules
- 26. A New Mr. Smalls
- 27. If It Wasn’t For the Kids
- 28. Release, Renew
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
QUOTES
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