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Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy
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 lode of identity construction and self-preserving mechanisms. Yet, when retold, these stories are funnier than they are tragic. Like getting busted by the high school janitor and guidance counselor, who decided to play Cagney and Lacey and stake out the boys' bathroom. Hoping to catch the girl they assumed must be sneaking in and throwing 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 exploring how the narrow categories we assign ourselves and others inevitably fail to represent our whole selves, 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.
Chad Goller-Sojourner is a Seattle-based solo performer; recipient of a distinguished Washington State Arts Commission Performing Arts Fellowship. And member of the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Diversity Task Force. In 2009, he launched a national college tour of his highly acclaimed solo show, Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy, which debuted July 2008 at Seattle's BrownBox African-American Theatre. Additionally, his work has been featured on NPR and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. A written memoir is currently in the works.
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LocationRainier Valley Cultural Center
3515 S Alaska St.
Seattle, WA 98118
United States
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