Her motto was: “Learn to embrace yourself inside and out”
The school happened twice a week in Room 205, which didn’t give much impression of any lessons going on. Instead, groups mostly of young trans women would be casually chatting, interrupted every so often by a slim, beautifully turned-out black woman with deep dimples, her mother’s genes. Everything about her, from the pixie haircut to the huge earrings to the halter-neck tops, was a statement of confident femininity. And she didn’t miss a thing.
At the school she taught, in her free-flowing way, social graces, manners, deportment, use of soap and water, how to behave in interviews, when not to put their hoochie mama clothes on, and safe sex. She told them how to do make-up and draw power from their identity as women. When they “graduated” she kept in touch, noting how many went to college or got good jobs, and continuing to tell them how proud of them she was.
High school was a trial. She got through it in her boy’s clothes, but if at weekends she wanted to wear a dress and parade down the street she would duck behind cars to avoid people she knew. Stones were thrown at her, and one summer Sunday four boys raped her in an alley as she walked home from the cinema. She dropped out for a year after that, unable to understand how anyone could treat her that way. But it wasn’t only other people who disliked her.
Three amazing women, her mother, grandmother and great-aunt, had trained her that way from childhood. They not only accepted who she was, but encouraged her. Their own careers embraced the queer scene in Chicago: her mother, a noted beauty, danced in gay clubs and her grandmother, a seamstress, sewed the sparkly-strings of male strippers. Nothing fazed them. If she borrowed her aunt’s scarves and did the Dance of the Seven Veils round the house, that was fine.
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