Being all alone is terrifying-we know that well-enough by now-but there’s something about living with and for yourself that seems to have opened so many doors for people, including myself.
Dressing to pass when you're transgender is difficult sometimes. This is just my story on how I found my own.
If you listen to the most popular old cliches--don’t judge a book by its cover, it’s what’s inside that counts--then it would be easy to believe my altered looks don’t change who you are as a person. And they don’t; but that’s not where the story ends.
"One who drips with the confidence to drown any room," Marina discusses identity through poetry.
What does it mean to be an author? It means you're just like everyone else. Well, kinda...
Identity. Who are you? What do you define yourself as? We search and strip ourselves down to find the answers to these major questions. Once we have figured who we are, soul bared and naked, we have to figure out an appropriate way to express this out loud. While this can be done in several different ways my favorite examples are fashion mavens— girls and guys who dress not just for necessity, but for art, for style, and for luxury.