‘My fight to be seen in a harsh world’

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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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 fixed.” “My mother knew that the world outside the family home would be harsh.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Go The Way Your Blood Beats is released on the 6th of July. Book link: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451111/go-the-way-your-blood-beats-by-monterey-emmett-de/9780241570531 Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio editor: Alex Rees. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hello and welcome to the bunker daily I am your host Alex Andro
1:08.0	to queer for the disabled to disabled for the queas These are the words with which my guest today
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1:20.0	Welcome to the bunker Emmett de Monterrey.
1:23.0	Thank you very much Alex I'm delighted to be here.
1:25.0	Emmett can we start with words?
1:28.0	You use the word disability
1:31.0	while acknowledging that the term is loaded.
1:34.0	What is your precise diagnosis and what does that mean for your body?
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