The NOW Normal: Bliss Besinger Is The Only One Who Wasn’t Expected To Survive

Picture this: Two weeks after a traumatic birth and a cerebral palsy diagnosis, you are adopted and taken to a small town in the south where you and your siblings are the only Black children with white parents. Imagine then, being thirteen-years-old and making the decision to come out and tell your family that you are a lesbian.

Nineteen-year-old Bliss Besinger is now a sophomore at Meredith College, an all-girl liberal arts college in Raleigh, North Carolina where she is the only Black student in the theater department. You heard Bliss’s mom, Deb Besinger, talk about her when we interviewed her for season six. Deb’s episode is The Only White Mom with Adopted Black Children.

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