Even before 'Pose,' I was involved in activism and advocating for my community in various ways. I didn't see that stopping with my entry into this industry, but people are going to be afraid of what you're going to say. I'm going to bump heads with people that benefit from the oppression that they put trans people through.

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I don't want anyone to be fooled by the colors in the streets, the rainbow glosses around the ads of T-Mobile or any of the other wonderful companies, into thinking that we are free because we're not, and so to see today, on the anniversary of Stonewall, police heavy saturated in our streets, it's traumatic for some of us.

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Our community is literally dying to live. We are literally dying to be visible in peace and harmony with you all, we aren't safe anywhere.

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Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

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Historically, our culture has not made room for the nuances of humanity. People have not been kept safe: women, people of colour, queer people, transgender people.

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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.

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I always believed that clothes should be designed to conform to our bodies and not our bodies to conform to the clothing.

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My love is political. My body is political. I talk even when I don't speak.

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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.

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I think people with varying experiences need to be creating.

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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.

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I think 'Pose' is unique in that it's not just a trans story - it's about family. It's about love. It's about friendship and acceptance and really deconstructing humanity, and the ethical side of that, with how we treat people who are different than us.

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I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection.

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People who have trouble finding acceptance and love in their life settle for whatever they can get.

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We're standing on the shoulders of so many people who have already broken down so many barriers.

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I want more people to hear me and be part of the change that everyone would benefit from: the change we need so that people like me can be safe and happy.

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'Pose' feels like a family. I love them all. It's just really beautiful to see everyone else evolve and trying to figure themselves out the same as I am.

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I didn't want anyone to have control over how people saw me. I wanted to have that power myself.

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We will fight ignorance and a lack of information with information.

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Narcissism is a strong word, but it is narcissistic to expect everybody in a culture to reflect your own image back at you.

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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?'

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