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Living as the Outsider
There is a moment that happens so quickly most of us barely notice it.A conversation shifts. Someone says something unfamiliar. A perspective unsettles us. We feel awkward, uncertain, exposed, or defensive. And somewhere inside ourselves, we begin to pull back.Not dramatically. Quietly.We change the subject. We disengage. We stop listening as openly as we were moments before.In my conversation with Stone Gye on Chocolate and Coffee Break, we explored racism, belonging, and what it means to move through life as the outsider. But beneath those themes sat something even more human: the instinct people have to retreat from what feels unfamiliar.Stone spoke about living much of his life aware of being different. As an African-American man who grew up in Japan, served in the military, migrated to Australia, and later moved to France, he described moving through spaces where belonging was never assumed.At one point he said simply, “I’ve always been an outsider.”There was something deeply confronting in the simplicity of that sentence.Not because being an outsider is rare, but because so many people quietly carry some version of that feeling. Sometimes because of race. Sometimes because of disability, grief, class, culture, trauma, sexuality, illness, or simply being different in ways others struggle to understand.
Categories: Podcasts
Director: Andrea Putting
Starring: Stone Gye
Country: Australia
