Both of us identified more with moonlight even though she is a non-black WOC and I am white. We are both queer with not supportive, abusive parents and come from low income households. Something we have bonded over is our trauma, especially trauma related to our queerness. It makes sense that we both relate more to Moonlight, which shows racial, parental, and societal trauma. Moonlight reflects the experience of trauma that many LGBTQ+ people relate to, unaccepting and abusive parents who may suffer with addiction along with the ways marginalized identities interact with one another. Call Me by Your Name portrays this romanticized experience of queerness that is seemingly traumaless for the main character. His parents are very wealthy, white, and supportive. I think I gravitated more to the nostalgia of Call Me by Your Name because it focuses on this innocent version of queerness that is idealized and unrealistic which a lot of queer people crave but never
Both of us identified more with moonlight even though she is a non-black WOC and I am white. We are both queer with not supportive, abusive parents and come from low income households. Something we have bonded over is our trauma, especially trauma related to our queerness. It makes sense that we both relate more to Moonlight, which shows racial, parental, and societal trauma. Moonlight reflects the experience of trauma that many LGBTQ+ people relate to, unaccepting and abusive parents who may suffer with addiction along with the ways marginalized identities interact with one another. Call Me by Your Name portrays this romanticized experience of queerness that is seemingly traumaless for the main character. His parents are very wealthy, white, and supportive. I think I gravitated more to the nostalgia of Call Me by Your Name because it focuses on this innocent version of queerness that is idealized and unrealistic which a lot of queer people crave but never