The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian

by W. Kamau Bell

Maybe you’ve appreciated seeing my struggle to articulate (my word, not yours, so I can call myself articulate) how I feel and what I think.

Mobile is the actual birthplace of Mardi Gras. Yeah, see, I told you. You don’t believe me. (I even just Googled it right now

1703 and New Orleans has only been doing it since . . . Well, it’s complicated. A French guy celebrated Mardi Gras near New Orleans in 1699, but he only invited his friends. Whereas Mobile has been doing organized celebrations since 1703

Mobile is the place where the last ship containing newly enslaved Africans landed. It was September 22, 1959. Just

scurrility

auteur

malapropisms

iconoclast.

cisgender” when whatever gender people think you are is the same gender that you know you are.

concept of cisgender is a way to denormalize something that is

Not in gender.

No? What is definition of norma

“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” That became my mantra.

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