--- title: Amandla Stenberg Comes Out As Bisexual on Snapchat description: Amandla Stenberg took over Teen Vogue's Snapchat on Thursday and officially came out as bisexual. canonical: https://time.com/4173294/amandla-stenberg-bisexual-teen-vogue/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-08T19:34:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:28.978Z og:title: 'Hunger Games' Actress Amandla Stenberg Comes Out As Bisexual on Snapchat og:description: "It’s deeply bruising to fight against your identity" og:url: https://time.com/4173294/amandla-stenberg-bisexual-teen-vogue/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Hunger Games' Actress Amandla Stenberg Comes Out As Bisexual on Snapchat twitter:description: "It’s deeply bruising to fight against your identity" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # _Hunger Games_ Actress Amandla Stenberg Comes Out As Bisexual on Snapchat > Sponsored content. 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Stenberg shared the personal detail during the closing moments of her video chat. “It’s a really really hard thing to be silenced and it’s deeply bruising to fight against your identity and to mold yourself into shapes that you just shouldn’t be in,” she said. “As someone who identifies as a black, bisexual woman I’ve been through it, and it hurts, and it’s awkward and it’s uncomfortable…but then I realized because of Solange \[Knowles\] and Ava DuVernay and [Willow \[Smith\]](http://time.com/3592747/jaden-willow-smith-poetry-generator/) and all the black girls watching this right now, that there’s absolutely nothing to change.” **Read More:** [Taraji P. Henson on Hollywood’s Racial Biases: ‘I Know the Struggle’](http://time.com/4140391/taraji-p-henson-empire-hollywood-race/) She then went on to emphasize how important it is to accept yourself for who you are: “We cannot be suppressed. We are meant to express our joy and our love and our tears and be big and bold and definitely not easy to swallow…Here I am being myself and it’s definitely hard and vulnerable and it’s definitely a process but I’m learning and I’m growing.” Stenberg [tweeted out](https://twitter.com/amandlastenberg/status/685491403829321728) a link to the clip on Friday with the caption, “Shared something on the teenvogue snapchat last night. Bi black girls unite.” > [](https://twitter.com/amandlastenberg/status/685491403829321728) See the full video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4173294/amandla-stenberg-bisexual-teen-vogue/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4173294/amandla-stenberg-bisexual-teen-vogue/"},"headline":"Hunger Games Actress Amandla Stenberg Comes Out As Bisexual on Snapchat","datePublished":"2016-01-08T19:34:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:28.978Z","description":"\"It’s deeply bruising to fight against your identity\"","url":"https://time.com/4173294/amandla-stenberg-bisexual-teen-vogue/","keywords":["Newsfeed","feminism","women","celebrities","Hunger Games","Equality","actresses"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4173294/amandla-stenberg-bisexual-teen-vogue/","name":"Hunger Games Actress Amandla Stenberg Comes Out As Bisexual on Snapchat"}}]}] ```