When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.

Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in my own life experiences. As someone who is "newly" trans, I am constantly thinking about what the dominant narratives are around transness, how my work can push against these narratives, and how it already falls into these traps.

I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and voices to protest or activists online who are constantly engaging and educating others.

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age.