I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.

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

I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.

Of course, I can't separate my queerness from my brownness - if anything, my queerness amplifies my brownness, and vice versa - but I spent so much of my early twenties trying to erase my differences, often without awareness of what I was doing.

Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.

I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and prevents love from entering or leaving.