King Street
Boone, NC

January 24, 2023

“Fashion is a language for me. I use it to communicate how I feel, what I am thinking, and make a statement. I get a lot of harassment though, which I am not used to, but hey, what can you do at the end of the day?

‍‍Fashion is everything to me. That is why I am here. That is why I am doing this, to show people what true Icon Status is.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

A part of me would say nothing, because I know imperfection is beauty. But, at the end of the day, what I would change about myself is overthinking and getting in my head about what people think. I don’t normally do, but when I do, I get really angry, I lash out, and it hurts my friends and my family. I say I hate everyone and I make some crazy fashion statement and go right back to the normal. I would change being an overthinker definitely.

If you had all the money in the world, what would you do tomorrow?

I would do outreach for transwomen, transpeople. I would donate to Queer youth. Other than that, I would try to take over the American Government, and actually get some change done, support socialism. I would try to run for president because I could do so much more with that much power of legislation than just donating to different organizations. I would try to help people and make changes, because it really does have promise.

What is the best gift you’ve ever given or received?

The secret about my transness. The best I have ever given is trusting some of my closest friends and family with who I am because at the end of the day, that is what I offer to the world, and that is a gift. The people who saw that, saw that, and the people who didn’t, didn’t. But when I realized I was trans, the best thing was giving it to some of my closest friends. I could give them monetary things, I could give them art, I am an artist, I could make them an entire collection of clothing, but that could never equate to who I am as a person, so that is the best gift I have ever given, sharing who I am as a person.

What is your biggest fear?

My biggest fear is honestly being normal. I have genuinely had nightmares about people coming up to me and being like, “you’re just like everyone else”. I used to hate myself for being different, but I think being who I am means being the change I want to see in the world. My biggest fear is that I would lose that or that I would become a part of the crowd, even if that crowd is the dynamic crowd, I want to stay out of that box. It is isolating for sure, but I think that is the only way that change can happen is if you have an entirely new person. Marilyn Monroe wouldn’t have changed so much if she didn’t step out.