What do these works mean to you?
These are very emotional things for me. I have a hard time explaining what it means to be transgender and what it means to be welcomed home. It's just a welcome. I feel warm and welcomed by the women in my family. I changed jobs after my mother passed away. Both of my grandmothers probably had different ideas about who I was, but they knew me, they knew Harper Steele, and I was with them. I was able to spend a lot of time there. And I'm so happy to be able to connect with my sister especially. Of course I love my father, and I love my brothers too. What a wonderful change in life to be a part of this other side.
Have you ever thought about passing down your cameo ring and watch to your children?
I have two girls, and my sister and I will probably pass on a lot of our grandma and grandma to them. I have a non-binary child who leans transgender. I have a great collection of things that came from my world when I was presenting as a man and things that I got from my father. That is, our family was not a big collector of precious things that we passed down. I got my mom's entire jewelry case. You could say it came out of the drugstore.
Does jewelry connect with something big for you?
When I look down at my hands now, I see what I was not allowed to do for 59 years. My hands are different. It is now attached to the right body. Everything is in place. So jewelry reminds me that I'm home, where I'm supposed to be.
Another thing I would like to say about femininity in general is that I don't necessarily think that all women would accept me as a trans woman into some sort of matriarchal society. And that doesn't really bother me. In my heart, I am a transgender person first and a woman second. This is just my opinion. But opening myself up and being vulnerable as a woman opened me up to the feminine side of “SNL” in all of my fellow writers. Love is a strong word, but love for Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey, all these people. my friend. But it only made me open up a broader kind of love for the female side of my entire working life, and make me reflect on how much women have helped me get to where I am. It has become.
So it all ties into the superpower of being a woman and not being afraid to be vulnerable or vulnerable. But for me it's very special. And these two things remind me that this is the world I live in now, and a better one.
