Bisexual Artist Yazmin Monet Watkins Releases “Grateful” Video
In honor of Bisexual Awareness Week (September 21-27) and our ongoing efforts to raise bisexual visibility, ELIXHER will be drawing attention to important issues that affect the bisexual communities.
Poet and actress Yazmin Monet Watkins recently released new spoken word single and digital film “Grateful.” In the digital short, the bisexual artist blends her inspiring and raw spoken word with a soothing R&B melody and shares gratitude for being a queer woman of color.
“I love the way my pen finds paper early in the morning…for family, a loving supportive den of lion women,” she recites. “Man, I love love. Love the way it settles on his smile when he genuinely laughs, the way her hand feels like a revolution every time hers is in mine.”
Currently in the cutest relationship with her hunky boyfriend of over two years (yes, we’re hooked on her Instagram), Watkins got candid with ELIXHER Magazine in our fall/winter 2013 issue about the misconceptions and biphobia she has faced. She has gotten everything from people questioning the couple’s presence at a Gay Pride Parade to people asking, “So you aren’t bisexual anymore?” When she dated a woman for the same length of time she was automatically labeled a “lesbian.” She points out that some assume that being bisexual means you’re 50 percent attracted to men and 50% attracted to women or that bisexual people are unfaithful.
“That’s the whole reason why I am as visible as I am,” Watkins told us. “So I can create spaces that have queer content and where queer stories are told—to calm ignorance no matter where it is.”
Peep Yazmin’s new video below. You can purchase the single here on iTunes.
* Photo by Mark T Laurent
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