Chelsea has taken her story of being raised by two gay men, and used it as a platform to spread love, tolerance and has advocated for the LGBTQ+ community since she was in high school. She now has made a career out of sharing her experiences as the daughter of two gay men and a young woman navigating the world on her blog, 'The Girl with Five Names,' her podcast, 'Worthiness Warriors,' through speaking engagements, and her debut book, Inexplicably Me. I t was Candice Carty-Williams who came up with the “Black Bridget Jones” tagline for her debut novel, Queenie. (She wasn’t working in marketing for a publishing house at the time for nothing.) She wanted her novel, which follows the misadventures of millennial south London journalist Queenie, to reach as wide a readership as possible. Today, her name rarely appears without the words “publishing phenomenon” attached: Queenie won book of the year at the British book awards in 2020 (Bridget Jones took it in 1998), making Carty-Williams the first Black writer ever to get the prize, an indictment of the industry in itself. #WHITE ON BLACK GAY CUM INSIDE ME FULL#.
