Making music has been connected to one of my greatest heartaches, because my own music has never quite connected with audiences. But it was this heartache that pushed me to explore other artistic avenues, like writing and filmmaking, and I ultimately feel most at home in a multidisciplinary environment.
My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.
When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.
I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.
Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.
I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and prevents love from entering or leaving.
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