Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope Audiobook (Free)

An insightful, motivating, “candid and warm” (Booklist) memoir from Karamo Dark brown—beloved culture expert from Netflix’s Queer Eyesight—as he stocks his story for the very first time, exploring how the problems in his very own lifestyle have allowed him to forever transform the lives of these in need.

When Karamo Dark brown first auditioned for the casting directors of Queer Eyes, he knew he wouldn’t get the role of culture expert simply by discussing art and theater. Instead he made a decision to redefine what “lifestyle” could—and about Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Curing, and Wish should—mean for the present. He took a risk and announced, “I am lifestyle.”

In the end, Karamo believes culture is how people feel about themselves yet others, how they relate with the world around them, and exactly how their shared labeling, burdens, and encounters affect their daily lives with techniques both subtle and profound. Seen through this zoom lens, Karamo is lifestyle: his family members is usually Jamaican and Cuban; he grew up in the South in mostly white neighborhoods and attended an HBCU (Historically Dark College/University or college); he was trained as a cultural worker and psychotherapist; he overcame personal issues of colorism, physical and psychological abuse, alcoholic beverages and drug cravings, and public infamy; he is a happy and devoted gay single dad of two males, one biological and one adopted.

In “this soul-soothing memoir” (O, The Oprah Magazine), Karamo reflects on his lifelong education. It comprises every adversity he offers overcome, as well as the lessons he offers learned on the way. It is just by discovering our troubles and getting the hard conversations—with ourselves and one another—that people have the ability to modify our mind-sets, heal emotionally, and progress to live our best lives.

“During every episode of Queer Eye, there’s at least one coming in contact with moment where Karamo Dark brown drops some serious wisdom about self-love and makes everybody weep. His shifting memoir about overcoming adversity captures that sense in book type” (HelloGiggles).