The film Moonlight explores its themes of love in seemingly opposite manners: the absence and aching for love, as well as the impact that even a little bit of love can have for someone. The movie follows its protagonist, Chiron, through three...

Sexuality is viewed through a social lense and is judged based on behaviours, aesthetics and assumptions. In this sense, sexuality is performative, meaning that gendered actions and mannerisms reflect an internal identity only because they are...

Barry Jenkins's 2016 drama Moonlight depicts a young African-American boy, Chiron, struggling with his sexuality through three stages in his life, early childhood, his teenage period and finally in his adult life, showing how he develops as a...

Social identity as a significant construct towards acceptance and a sense of belonging or self-confidence is often susceptible to cultural expectations. Barry Jenkins’s film Moonlight which amalgamates themes of race, identity, sexuality, and...

A tender but powerful coming-of-age story, the film Moonlight chronicles the life of Chiron, a young African American boy living in a rough Miami neighborhood during the city’s notorious crack epidemic. Bullied throughout his youth, Chiron feels...