‘The Odds Were Stacked Against Us’
The New York Times
For Kelsey Reynolds and Kamah Asha Wilson, a “lesbian-queer, interracial, Christian couple,” marriage was an opportunity to embrace tradition on their terms.
Kelsey Reynolds and Kamah Asha Wilson call themselves “hopeful romantics.”
“We are a lesbian-queer, interracial, progressively Christian couple in the Deep South, from conservative families. The intersectional and circumstantial odds were stacked against us,” said Mx. Reynolds, who is nonbinary and uses gender-neutral courtesy titles and pronouns.
Ms. Wilson was facing an internal battle that “wouldn’t let me be with Kelsey without feeling like I was going to hell,” she said, adding that she also struggled to overcome feelings of cultural betrayal “by being with someone from a culture that has oppressed mine for hundreds of years.”
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