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Traveling as a disabled person is really quite daunting for a lot of reasons, mostly because of accessibility versus inaccessibility in countries outside of the US (most of the US itself outside of NYC is painfully inaccessible). Last year during fashion month in September was my first time traveling to Europe – I went to Milan with my dad and my agent and I had like, the absolute best time ever. Much to my surprise. I love Europe! I know every country has its nuances and its things going on that’s really important to actually understanding that country, but just to have a pleasant experience in terms of being a physically disabled trans woman who is Black in a new country like that, was really relieving and exhilarating. I even made a dear friend who is a fellow trans woman while being in Milan for that time. The Duomo was extremely lively, and I found out that I really like aperol spritzes and gelato. Their pasta is also simply elite. I hope this isn’t controversial to say in any way but I love England just as much as well! I have been able to be there the past two months for some very special experiences - included being able to speak and debate at the Oxford Union, at Oxford University! Everyone has been incredibly sweet and I love my modeling agency and my agents out there. I really love chips. Completely obsessed with chips… and I really enjoyed going to the Tate for the first time with my best friend and his boyfriend!
Apr 10, 2023
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i went to europe over the summer on this ambassador tour type thing sponsored by my school - best freaking experience ever. i live in an area in the us with zero public transportation and shitty overall walkability so going to big cities in Europe was a huge game changer.
i visited England, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. absolutely stacked lineup alone, but the tour had us drop down in big cities and small towns where we basically never took transportation unless we were going from country to country. we walked honestly probably 5+ miles every single day, ate bomb ass meals 3 times a day alongside little snacks and sweet treats we'd pick up. i lost like 5 pounds !! in two weeks !! and i was eating like a king the whole trip, it's crazy how getting ur steps in makes such a huge difference. and everything was always right around the corner, the drugstores and gas stations were STACKED, and don't even get me started on the trinket shops and restaurants. the big cities were so awesome, London and Paris were obviously worth the hype and fantastic to navigate around by foot, but i have so much love for the small towns we dropped down in elsewhere. we were up in the alps in Switzerland and Austria and all the people were fantastic. so homey, accommodating, and they had so many cool spas !! germany was even better, tiny town with insane charm and culture, i bought the most beautiful handmade Christmas ornament there made by the kindest german lady. don't even get me started on the food. but I'm just saying, walkable cities help u take it all in. i felt so present everywhere i went, i had so much to look at and there was always something to do at every corner. i feel like visiting unwalkable cities almost limits urself to a strict itinerary since u have to plan based on each individual place or activity u decide to go to. get off that damn bus and walk around ! it's so nice and u basically get all ur exercise in for the whole day and probably more. however summer in Germany was kind of diabolical when we were there it felt like i was entering a sauna every time i stepped foot outside. besides that the weather in other places is usually pretty fair and nice ! take advantage and go go go, even if ur not vacationing - lots of places can be walkable if u try hard enough (unless u live in like the midwest or in a farm town). i miss the falafel i had in Germany :(
Mar 25, 2025
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some highlights:
-living in a house with a bunch of acting students despite not actually living there
-coffee shop next to the tube station
-rock clubs
-explaining through broken French it’s your birthday and getting a very strong rum based beverage in a Caribbean restaurant
-napping in open fields with someone who loves you
-never actually going to class and running around the museum like Bande à part
-the windmill in brixton
-being seated at a table for one in Berlin with a stew and some wine overlooking a canal
-free modern art exhibits and screenings
-smoking out the apartment window
Feb 1, 2024
amsterdam-brussels-london 10 day solo trip!!! so so so fun, saw lots of beautiful art, tried new foods, meandered beautiful cities, met cool people, took a ton of pictures. :) (downside i did injure my knee which sucked and i am still in pt over it lol but otherwise 10/10 trip)
Jan 16, 2025
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I am a girl who changes her hair a lot. I hadn’t been that kind of girl though, but now I am. I think that mood, artistry and life itself really informs my perspective on my personal self image and perception of beauty, so I’m always looking to appear differently or uniquely, or as a somewhat different version of myself. Hair to me, is the biggest tool and canvas in how to change one’s appearance - even more so than makeup. In 2019 there was a point where I bleached literally my entire scalp and eyebrows (as a lot of people are now doing in this present day)… My hair was in twists, and so I looked like this character from a cartoon or anime in a majestic way. Yassified Super Saiyan! I’d still been a highschooler then, and that was the most free I’d ever felt with my image up to that point. To me, that was a real testament to the power of hair. From that point on my life became a pipeline from wigs to eventually protective hairstyles and I lived for every second of it. I still do!
Apr 10, 2023
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The Museum of Modern Art is my all time favorite museum in the city and has been for as long as I can remember. That says a lot & holds a lot of weight because I’ve been going there and admiring it all since I was about 12 years old. I’d been a part of an extracurricular program for children with disabilities where I was there as a kid to immerse myself in all the different types of art that they had to offer. This was immeasurable for me as a young artist, and a disabled artist at that. That experience was my introduction to the MoMA, and since then I’d been hooked - for lack of better words. As a now 21 going on 22-year-old (by the time this comes out I’ll be 22), it is in my opinion, the most communal of all the museums in the city. You can be ratchet and free with your friends within the walls of the MoMA and enjoy and learn about any type of art or anything related to art there, and that’s literally just what is - you just kind of lose yourself there til doors close at 5:30.
Apr 10, 2023
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Currently, I am writing this while literally wearing my famous (lol I just say that) pair of black fuzzy UGG boots. UGGs are phenomenal, okay?! As a disabled woman - spending most of my time in a wheelchair constantly, throughout my life it’s been very hard for me to take footwear very seriously as I feel like nobody’s actually ever looking at my feet. Unless I’m walking runway, or shooting for a client… then people are observing my feet, perhaps. I really treasure my feet feeling comfortable on a day-to-day basis, and UGGs really deliver that for me! I don’t think that UGGs are ugly, I think that people are just bad at styling themselves and aren’t brave enough like me to wear UGGs with almost anything. Now now, I’m not saying I wear UGGs all the time because that is not at all true actually. What I am saying though - is to not sleep on UGGs.
Apr 10, 2023