Humaira Chuhan fell in love with somebody outside her Pakistani culture. But when she told her dad about her interracial relationship with a Black man, she faced a traumatic rejection and was almost disowned. She channeled her experience through art and shared it on the Blindian Project - an online community supporting Black and Brown people in interracial relationships. Soon, she got floods of DMs from people with similar stories, making her believe even more that love is love, no matter what!
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00:00 With my dad, one of his initial questions was,
00:03 "Is he black?"
00:05 I think I just went, "Yeah,"
00:06 and then it all unraveled from there.
00:08 My boyfriend and I, we've been together
00:13 for two years and six months.
00:15 I am half Pakistani and half Thai.
00:17 He is, originally he's Jamaican and St. Lucian,
00:20 but he was born in London, Waterloo.
00:22 My mom definitely knew before my dad.
00:25 Me and my mom were more open with each other about dating.
00:28 With my dad, we couldn't be adults and just talk about it.
00:32 I felt just sad.
00:35 I had no idea.
00:36 So many people were going through things
00:38 that I was going through.
00:39 Some people had it a lot worse than me.
00:42 The Blindian Project is this great community.
00:44 It's so supportive.
00:46 There's different kind of love stories every time,
00:49 how people met, and it's so amazing to read.
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