Challenging Beauty Norms, Trans Representation, and the Fight for True Inclusivity

Is the beauty and fashion industry ready to embrace true diversity, or are they still clinging to outdated standards? 

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Speaker 1: 0:00

I'll see brands. They'll post up a thousand and one just androgynous boys, but she won't post probably one or two trans women. Like you expect us to come out for you on pride, but where's the pride for us when it's throughout the year Like I can do a beat faster than these people and then I can make it look naturally beautiful, make the person's inner light shine. But then you pick the other person who did something where they're just like oh, a wing, a line, I'm done, we're good. I'm like pick someone off their talent, not based off of what you think will sell. There's 1,001 white women on a whole page. I appreciate their content, but give me something more. Give me a full timeline of other people versus just that singular group. Even I listen.

Speaker 1: 0:54

If someone was complected like Naima, I'd want to see that too. If someone's complected like you, blossom I would want to see that too. I would want to see stuff like that which makes us feel like we're being seen, just like they have. Glorilla, oh love, yes, I'd want to see some people like her complexion. I want to see a spectrum, not just one singular color. If you can give me a spectrum of people and being, the thing that they do. Now is they label us. Oh, they're so woke, they're so woke. It's not called being woke when you respect other people's color, their culture and their base.

Speaker 2: 1:35

That's called respect and the weaponization of woke just is another tool that supremacy has used to now take the power out of it.

Speaker 2: 1:44

Because even now, with this election like something that I was thinking about for a moment there on the red side and the blue side, there was kind of like a class solidarity thing happening, because there was a lot of unions, like during COVID, where a lot of people were like, hey, you know what, let's protest, let's not go to work, and two sides were coming together and now, like what I'm seeing a lot with this political sphere that we're in, it's almost like the working class now is being pitted against each other in a way to fight for scraps.

Speaker 2: 2:14

Meanwhile, we've got people that are making billions and billions and billions of dollars. And to your point about how that ties into, like why they're only picking one black trans woman to represent instead of multiple, or even like I experienced this with trans men like we don't even get any visibility at all, like period, like we're not even part of, like we're not even invited to the table, and so I can relate to that in some ways watching. It's all down to corporate dollars, it's all down to what sells the most, what's the algorithm, and that's why they are the white women. That's why they are picking this certain type of look, because that even happens, like for trans men, like trans guys. They show mostly like young, effeminate, androgynous, twinkie, twinkie looking. They don't really show that guys like me even exist.