HUNGER GAMES ACTRESS AMANDLA STENBERG COMES OUT FOR REAL AS BISEXUAL

AMANDLA STENBERG

Hunger Games actress, 17 year old Amandla Stenberg is the focus of the cover story in February 2016’s edition of the Teen Vogue magazine. The cover story by Solange Knowles will see her use the opportunity to come out of the closet. In the story headlined “How Our February Cover Star Amandla Stenberg Learned to Love Her Blackness,” the star seeks to inspire other black women come out clean and be their real self.

In the snippets of the interview prereleased, Stenberg says “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.”

She goes on to find company in women like Solange, Ava DuVernay, Willow Smith and all other black girls stating that nothing needs to change. She adds that they cannot be suppressed but are meant to express their joy, love, tears, be big and bold and definitely not easy to swallow.”

Stenberg is already a person of note within her contemporaries, she has built a strong online presence and uses this media as a platform to share messages aimed at creating a social awareness. She is known to have led the way, to have asked questions, etc. She has made the best of the opportunity and is today acknowledged as a voice for her generation.

Thus she seeks in the forthcoming publication of her interview to again set the pace in her disclosure.