“I’ve always felt like the current administration was a slingshot that probably we all needed. Because in a slingshot you have to be pulled way back before you can be catapulted forward.” — tyraaross
.) Jackson also expresses disappointment that some of the people calling for racial equality are not supportive of her fellow trans people of color. Still, she looks for reasons to be hopeful going into a new election season. “I’ve always felt like the current administration was a slingshot that probably we all needed. Because in a slingshot you have to be pulled way back before you can be catapulted forward.
But finding that poise was a lifelong process. When she moved to the U.S. from the island of Tobago as a teenager, she was not yet able to embrace her gender identity; a purchase she made with one of her first paychecks brought her one step closer to it. “I had to buy male shoes, [and I found] these shoes that looked almost like a peacock. And they hadThe back of them were black, but the front—they just sparkled,” she recalls.
“When I see people that are gender fluid and non-binary just living their lives, and coming to work...that brings me back,” she says. “Sometimes I just look around and I go,
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