“I’m a Black trans woman. Right now, under the administration of he-who-will-not- be-named, protections for trans people are being rolled back and affecting my community in ways that can mean either life or death. You know, financial scarcity in the Black community is a result of America in general but especially of this administration. Voting, for me, is important because it’s going to allow us to vote in a candidate that we’re going to be able to hold accountable.
“Family units are so important. I think it’s why we fight so hard to keep them together. I think sometimes the message gets screwed when we’re talking about [families] outside of a binary family system…But we are what America is supposed to be about. It’s supposed to be about this melting pot. It is supposed to be a place where opportunity is actually meant for all.
“I am everything that society tells me is wrong. I’m a darker-skinned Black woman. I’m plus-size or fat, whatever you want to call it. I’m trans. So on paper it’s like, ‘She’ll never be a Calvin Klein model.’ She’ll never be in high-fashion magazines. I see [my Calvin Klein] billboard as a kind of vision of what we’re fighting toward. We need that, especially in the time of Black Lives Matter. When you’re talking about systemic racism, you can’t see the end goal.
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