About the Project
Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy is the groundbreaking and crushingly honest reclamation story of a fat, gay, bulimic, black boy raised by white parents and struggling to find beauty, acceptance and safe spaces ─ in a world short on all.
With playful humor and sharp observance Sitting in Circles… takes audiences on an intense and insightful journey, along the way unpacking the mother load of competing and conflicting identities. Yet, when retold these stories are funnier than they are tragic: getting busted by the high school janitor and guidance counselor, who, instead of mopping floors and handing out college brochures, staked out the boys’ bathroom, in hopes of catching the girl they assumed must be sneaking in to throw up, or the time God instructed him to march around his Junior High seven times── promising him, he’d make the walls come tumbling down, just like he’d done at Jericho.
Whether retracing the struggles and hilarities of being diagnosed during the mid-eighties with a “girl’s” disease, or recalling the sixth-grade field trip to the high school swimming pool, where a white classmate sat two seats behind him, and called him a Tar Monster the whole way── Sitting in Circles… continues to resonate with diverse audiences. Demonstrating how even the most painful of experiences can be reclaimed, transformed, and accepted for what they are: the building blocks of our unique identities.
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