CHIRON’S STORY: RACE, CLASS, LOCATION AND GENDER PERFORMANCE In the film, Moonlight, a young man deals with his dysfunctional home life and while finding himself during the "War on Drugs" era in the Southern United States, Miami, Florida. This widely acclaimed biopic, directed by Barry Jenkins, with a story by Tarell Alvin McCraney is broken into three chapters that share the narrative of Chiron tracing from childhood to adulthood. As he 's a young boy, he 's known as “Little” and when he 's with his first love and only childhood friend- Kevin, he 's known as “Black”. However his name birth name Chiron plays importance significance in its Greek mythological meaning of “outsider”. The story of struggle in finding oneself within his homeplace
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Through narrative analysis, intersectionality reveals that identities are stratified on a spectrum, a multidimensional axis of oppressed and privileged experiences. In conclusion, intersectionality exposes how privilege in heteronormative society functions as a dimension to exploring ones’ sexual identity, leading to marginalization and oppression amongst already differentiated and discriminated identities (Crenshaw, 1989). Sharing narratives of multiple oppression matters because it harbors the experiences of oppression, privilege, inclusion, exclusion, visibility, and invisibility (Collins, 1995, p.213). Black queer, journalist, Charles Blow expressed in his memoir that finding his voice helped him come to terms with a painful past and the damage that triggered years of anger and searing self-questioning. The same way Blow’s work, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, gave readers a visual imagination to contemplate the position of being at outcast in numerous intersections, films like Pariah and Moonlight, highlight the construction of multidimensional relationships. Often times these experiences are portrayed as one-dimensional or simply left unaccounted for. It is the nonheterosexist behavior and the shared narratives of these characters, allows the audience to critically reflect normativity that discount and overlook homophobic, classist, sexist, and racist systems by privileges
Through narrative analysis, intersectionality reveals that identities are stratified on a spectrum, a multidimensional axis of oppressed and privileged experiences. In conclusion, intersectionality exposes how privilege in heteronormative society functions as a dimension to exploring ones’ sexual identity, leading to marginalization and oppression amongst already differentiated and discriminated identities (Crenshaw, 1989). Sharing narratives of multiple oppression matters because it harbors the experiences of oppression, privilege, inclusion, exclusion, visibility, and invisibility (Collins, 1995, p.213). Black queer, journalist, Charles Blow expressed in his memoir that finding his voice helped him come to terms with a painful past and the damage that triggered years of anger and searing self-questioning. The same way Blow’s work, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, gave readers a visual imagination to contemplate the position of being at outcast in numerous intersections, films like Pariah and Moonlight, highlight the construction of multidimensional relationships. Often times these experiences are portrayed as one-dimensional or simply left unaccounted for. It is the nonheterosexist behavior and the shared narratives of these characters, allows the audience to critically reflect normativity that discount and overlook homophobic, classist, sexist, and racist systems by privileges