In an exclusive interview with Lotte Jeffs for ELLE's September issue Amandla Stenberg talks openly about race, sexuality, gender and activism. Read the full interview in the magazine which is on sale until mid September 2016.
Amandla on activism: 'There's no way you can go about making any social change before you've worked on consciously undoing the messages you've internalized about yourself and about other people.'
Amandla on labels: 'Bisexual is a word I am not too attached to [...] it implies a dichotomy that doesn't take into account trans people. So maybe pansexual is more accurate for me.'
Amandla on #BlackGirlMagic: 'There's a surge on social media of black women claiming their own space and realising that they are beautiful and capable and smart, because those are things that, honestly, black women are not taught to think about themselves. '
The September issue is available on newsstands from 3 August.
