Charles McRay Blow is an American journalist, commentator, and columnist.
He was the art director at National Geographic and has been a columnist at The New York Times since 2008. Blow often appears on MSNBC and CNN.
He wrote the memoir Fire Shut Up In My Bones (2014), which talks about race in America and his childhood growing up as a black American in the deep South.[1] He also talks extensively about his experience as a bi person.
In the 2014 column, "Up From the Pain", he discusses the journey of self-doubt that many bi people go through on the path to finding their sexuality, as well as the reality of confronting biphobia.
I would come to know what the world called people like me: bisexuals. The hated ones. The bastard breed. The ‘tragic mulattos’ of sexual identity. Dishonest and dishonorable. Scandal-prone and disease-ridden. Nothing nice.[2]