Almost a decade after GeenaRocero's bombshell TED Talk that was part of that “tipping point” moment for the trans community, Dara called her up to ki about all the juicy secrets, from living under the shadows to reclaiming her power.
DARA: I can see you.DARA: Why? What were you up to?So that’s a lot of emoting and all that. And I just came from the TED Conference in Vancouver.y TED Talk.
DARA: Yeah, yeah. We’ve got to really talk about that. In the book, there’s so much about the pageant life in the Philippines and being Filipino, but not ever having been to the Philippines—DARA: So here in America there’s a long history of trans and Jai pageantry. It’s like Miss Continental today, witheven. And there’s ballroom culture, which was born out of the Queens and all of those ’60s pageants and stuff.
DARA: Oh my goodness. It’s so interesting how connected it is to religious life. All those different cultural influences, it’s so much a training ground for what comes next when you’re doing things in the media, you know what I mean?training ground. My trans mother, Tigerlily, saw me at 15-years-old, she was like, “Oh, she could do it.” I was introduced to her through a friend and I was still wearing my high school uniform at College of St. Peter.
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