There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience.

I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word

I believe if we have something that we love to do, that can save our lives. That can get us through.

Beyoncé says it was Mathew Knowles, her father, who made her understand discipline and work ethic, what it means to come in early before class starts to stretch, or to work on your dégagés or your pirouettes or whatever it was. I was a turner! So to come in early and then to stay afterward and to just soak up everything that the teacher has, that's really what it's about - the striving for excellence.

Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks.

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able to become liberators for ourselves and for each other.