Accepting the award, Consani paid tribute to all the Black trans models who came before her and fought for the space.

Sometimes, this understanding starts on the outside, with our clothes. But when it comes to ... old slowly came out to friends and family as a woman. "I was happy as a man but I just realized ...

Others were forced to wear men’s clothes and do men’s labor for missionaries ... of colonial violence and erasure. Were the Joya trans women? That would be to impute an identity to them ...