truly a wonderful experience to be photographed and interviewed alongside a group of such kindhearted & brilliant trans/nonbinary people for @them’s body week 2022 🌈✨ check out the article for more thoughts on beauty, ugliness, embodiment, and desire. “I grew up in the church, you know what I'm saying? I grew up in a space where being queer, being trans, all that shit is an abomination. Today, I refuse that. No, I rebuke it, because queerness and transness existed in my ancestral lands. [People of the African diaspora] quite literally are the blueprint when it comes to living outside the gender binary. So how can I be wrong when my ancestors did this for generations upon generations? I have a deep knowing, a body wisdom, that my ancestors love me just the way that I am.” 🧡 photography: @nikokokiniko photo assistant: @jeremiahjmcnair groomer: @katienishida_ [image descriptions in alt text]