I always believed that clothes should be designed to conform to our bodies and not our bodies to conform to the clothing.
I think 'Pose' is really a groundbreaking television show because we're telling stories about family and love through people that society has always believed were incapable of having that or being a part of that.
I wanted to go to LaGuardia High School for acting, but my math grades weren't high enough. So I didn't get to go to a school that was geared toward the art that I was interested in because I wasn't good enough at math.
I think people with varying experiences need to be creating.
I have often been many companies' first experience with a gender-variant model. I am proud of that because I think I have broadened their horizons in my own way.
I feel like being vocal on social media, especially working in an industry that is very Eurocentric.
If you tell a narcissist that someone is less than them in any way, they feel gratified; they feel very good about that.
Toddlerhood, I just knew I was the farthest thing from a man. I've known that my whole life.
I don't know who I am outside of someone who's just trying to be free and find safety for myself and for others.
People were so cruel because of the way I existed.
A lot of times, when parents overdiscipline their children, especially when they're queer, their intention isn't to hurt them. They think they're saving their children from harm. But they don't realize that they're causing harm, that they're doing to their kids exactly what they're afraid of the world doing to them.
As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities I hold.
I don't like following the rules - the patriarchal rules.
I wanted a stable job, and I wanted to feel like I was grounded with my family and to have personal relationships in my life that were healing and honest and genuine.
When I'm around people having conversations about their day, I'm looking at them, like, 'What could they possibly be talking about? How are we not talking about deconstructing white supremacy right now? How are we not trying to save trans people?'
The only time I've ever felt like I needed to measure my activity and involvement in holding people accountable for being violent on social media is when I think about the things that I might lose for saying something. That's the only time I end up thinking about it.
Very often, the world of fashion depends on having the right look at the right time.
Eurocentric women are beautiful, but they are not the only ones out here that exist.
We will fight ignorance and a lack of information with information.
Slowly but surely, little by little, many different groups of vulnerable bodies and people have been targeted from since the beginning of time, from since the beginning of the construction of America and all the civilizations from around the world pre-colonially.
