Our Lady J Instagram – Practice.

Our Lady J Instagram - Practice.

Our Lady J Instagram – Practice. | Posted on 12/Oct/2021 02:21:18

Our Lady J Instagram – Trans and non-binary folks. Your feelings are valid. I know you are tired of being used as clickbait by people in positions of power. I’m tired too. I’m fucking exhausted from a lifetime of begging for respect. I am disturbed and angry that we have to keep bleeding out the same basic principles of our humanity so that people will simply give us the space to survive. I’m rattled by the humiliation we are expected to endure as folks mock and challenge our very existence. 

I hope you’re taking care of your mental health. I hope you’re pursuing pleasure and safely finding ways to reduce your pain. I hope you are connecting with your ability to transcend. I hope you are reaching out to other trans and non-binary folks to reflect your beauty and your power with each other. Protect the divinity within you. Protect the holy center of your being. This is why they taunt us. They see the magic in us and they wish they had an ounce of it. They know they wouldn’t last a minute in our shoes, so they push us to the edge to test just how much we can take. Don’t let them extinguish you. Do everything you can to survive. I need you here beside me. I love you so very very much.
Our Lady J Instagram – Pose may not have brought home any trophies this weekend, but we, as a community, won. At every turn along the way, we brought trans stories and trans bodies into spaces that have historically excluded us, and this has forever changed Hollywood.

Thank you for watching and supporting our show. For insisting that television represent the diverse world we live in. For laughing and crying with us as we shared our stories with those who had never before been given the chance to relate to our humanity.

I used to think that diminishing both the physical and spiritual elements of my transness would be the key to finding success in the arts, but I’ve learned that performing cishet culture will only get us so far. In order to summon the life force that is required for a sustainable career, we must bring ALL of ourselves to our creations. Thank you to my wonderful stylist Marko Monroe and dressmaker Wendi Williams-Stern for constructing a look that embodies the strength, creativity, intelligence, and resilience it takes to show UP. These awards shows can be psychological minefields for women and visibly trans folks, and I’m grateful that you allowed me to have fun while stomping the red carpet.

(Ps – I don’t know why some outlets are censoring my nipples. They were declared male at birth and are no different from the other nipples we see in the media every day, so please keep your shame off of my body.) The Oscars Academy Awards

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