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Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest
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White On The Outside | Brown On The Inside, Damon R. Carbajal
White On The Outside | Brown On The Inside, Damon R. Carbajal
Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest
This poem is one of a trio of poems published in this volume titled, “at the interSEXtion of being GAY and CHICANX: Un Trío de Poemas,” that dive into what it means growing up as a gay, Chicanx light-skinned in the current times post the moviemento and through the strides of the queer liberation movement. The poems explore many facets of living at this intersection including, but not limited to, toxic masculinities, queerphobia, mental health, sexual assault, pride, etc. The poems also explore the notion of what it means to be mestiza as Mexicano and White and how this further …