Janelle Monáe Opens Up About Being Polyamorous: ‘I Never Was The Girlfriend That Would Be Jealous’
Janelle Monáe is reintroducing herself in a new cover story for British Vogue‘s upcoming Pride issue.
Promoting her new album The Age of Pleasure, Monáe opens up about coming out as pansexual in 2018, and as nonbinary last year.
“Nothing about me speaks to binary. I don’t think I had the words to express it before… I listened to my spirit and my spirit was screaming, ‘You are a free-ass mothaf**ka!’” she explains.
Tim Walker/British Vogue
“The more I am free in my thinking and living outside of the binary, I’m on a constant discovery of who I can be. I can hold space for a lot of different things at the same time. I just felt like I wanted to free up my mind,” she adds.
She also confirms she’s been involved in polyamorous relationships. “I never was the girlfriend that would be jealous,...
Promoting her new album The Age of Pleasure, Monáe opens up about coming out as pansexual in 2018, and as nonbinary last year.
“Nothing about me speaks to binary. I don’t think I had the words to express it before… I listened to my spirit and my spirit was screaming, ‘You are a free-ass mothaf**ka!’” she explains.
Tim Walker/British Vogue
“The more I am free in my thinking and living outside of the binary, I’m on a constant discovery of who I can be. I can hold space for a lot of different things at the same time. I just felt like I wanted to free up my mind,” she adds.
She also confirms she’s been involved in polyamorous relationships. “I never was the girlfriend that would be jealous,...
- 6/16/2023
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
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