Music
All Kinds
Screeching Weasel, Even in Blackouts, Operation Ivy, Common Rider, The Ramones, Crimpshine, Blondie, The Methadones, The Reputation, The Husbands, The Pretenders, and many many more...
Film
,Reality Bites,Juno,Garden State,Pretty in pink,some kind of wonderful,Urban Legend,Orange County,Pieces of April,Empire Records,anything with Jean Arthur,Rebel without a cause,East of Eden,Sabrina,Breakfast at Tiffany's,Roman Holiday,Gidget,His Girl Friday,High Fidelity,Mallrats,Clerks,,
Books
Chicana Falsa,Cather in the Rye,How soon is never?, Too Much Too Late, Please Kill Me,Lolita,Nine Stories,The Outsiders,That was then and this is now,etc...,
Artists
Michelle Serros, John Jughead Pierson,
And last but definately not least:
any women of color making a living out of being an artist, bc that is an impossible task and any women of color who is just trying to make it and isn't giving up until she does
Based on what you're saying it sounds like if you put yourself out there he'll respond in a similar manner.