[AMP-L] Keith Parris Became the Online Representation He Needed

[Wayne Renardson]

via Into:

Keith Parris, aka the Icy amputee warrior, understands the importance 
of representation. When he couldn´t see his own identities reflected 
back at him on TV and social media, he became the representation he 
needed.  

Growing up as a Black queer amputee wasn´t easy for Parris. As a 
child of Caribbean immigrants (his mother is from Trinidad and his 
father is from Grenada) born and raised in New York City, Parris was 
already caught between multiple worlds. Additionally, he was 
navigating an eating disorder, self-harming impulses, and was on the 
receiving end of schoolyard gossip. The barrage was immense, but 
Parris decided to take his narrative into his own hands, at the 
encouragement of a student counselor, by writing it into the 
storytelling site Wattpad.   

The rest of the story, with Instagram photos, here:

https://tinyurl.com/2eqoxbof

Wayne R.