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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: ‘My fight to be seen in a harsh world’
Description: Emmett De Monterey was born with cerebral palsy, and as he grew up he realised that he was gay. He joins Alex Andreou to discuss his new book Go The Way Your Blood Beats about the challenges of facing two forms of prejudice, one against his disability and the other his sexuality. How do you fight to be seen in a world that refuses to see you?
“As a teenager I would have liked to have read a book about these experiences.”
“I wasted a lot of time internalising the narrative that I needed to be fix...