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“He's trying to do info-tainment. He doesn't really want to talk about trans issues, he wants to sensationalize my life and not really talk about the work that I do and what the purpose of me writing this book was about.”

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Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the gender binary…

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Throughout the day, I like to spritz my face with a rose water for extra moisture.

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In the evening, I use a cleansing oil - coconut oil also works - to remove makeup.

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“she cleaned, scrubbing to the staticky rhythm of Hawaiian music playing from her silver clock radio.”

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Hawaii was so integral to my journey. I was just there at the right time.

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I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white culture where…

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Trans folk, especially of color, should not be obligated to help cis folk play catch-up on our experiences. The effort can detract from our…

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I grew up at a time in Hawaii where there were trans women around, so there were visible role models for me. At the…

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We have to take care of our people. That's our work now. And it's going to be a lot harder than it would have…

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“The misconception of equating ease of life with “passing” must be dismantled in our culture. The work begins by each of us recognizing that…

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This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It’s a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin…

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“The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.”

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