#caldocumentary

“I’m talking about the trans woman of color journey. I’d never seen a book like that, so that’s why I wrote it. I wanted to tell the real story of a North Carolinian child all the way up to the present day of what it took for me to get here, to tell the story of what it’s like to be transgender and what it’s like to feel like there’s no one there else but the girls around you as your family. I wrote the book to educate and enlighten people about what it is to be a trans woman of color, to show people there are transgender people who have made it...I don’t normally agree with the mainstream. First of all I’m not white, I am educated and but I am a black educated trans woman. While the LGBT movement is fighting a cause, I have to look out for the women on the street. I feel they are not getting the respect they deserve" -Toni Newman, author of the important memoir "I Rise" . . . #toninewman #irise #memoir #translivesmatter #blacktranslivesmatter #growingupqueer #transstories #transwomeninfilm #herstory #caldocumentary #callingalllesbians (at San Francisco, California)

PDX || Zwei of the Dykes on Bikes || "I would tell my younger self it's okay to look like a boy, life gets better. Someday your life will be great and it will all make sense. And I wish I had known earlier how to say, go f**k yourself." . . . #lesbians #qpoc #callingalllesbians #caldocumentary #independentfilm #dykesonbikes #dob #friendsofdobpdx #dobpdx #growingupgay #itgetsbetter #queer #queerlife #growingupqueer #androgyny (at Portland, Oregon)

PDX || Britt || "You don’t have to identify as anything to 'identify,' you just are. I come across a lot of people that want to take their body back, use their choice, and feel good about it. There are all these people that are trying to heal themselves in other ways. Sometimes medicine doesn’t work, sometimes therapy doesn’t work, and sometimes nothing seems to work except being able to control one little thing. To have one thing be the way you want it to be.” - Britt, on the power of body piercing . . . #identity #piercing #adornpiercingandtattoo #adornbodyartgallery #womenwhopierce #badasswomen #healing #healingthroughart #bodymodification #portland #keepportlandweird #indiefilm #independentfilm #caldocumentary #callingalllesbians #lesbians #qpoc (at Adorn Body Art)