Photos by Zoë Collins/OutWrite
Interviews by Min Kim/OutWrite
This series was originally published in our Winter 2023 print issue “Culture.”
Min Kim (They/Them)
“Trends never really do dictate whether you’re dressing fashionably or not.”
“[Fashion] enables me to put into concrete terms an idea or some theme or some image that I have in my head.”
Michel Rose (He/They)
“I can be a trans man but still embrace femininity and gender nonconformity, and those two things can coexist.”
“I know who I am and I know what I like, and that’s what I should do.”
Gwendolyn Hill (She/Her)
“It all ties back to that idea of, ‘how do I want to represent myself? Is this true to the identity I feel?’”
“If you get to a point where you can accurately dress and express yourself the same way you’re feeling in that moment, that’s the ultimate achievement.”
Emma Blakely (They/She/He)
“Queer doesn’t have one visual definition.”
“I think it’s kind of funny looking back that I didn’t realize I was nonbinary sooner because…I found it personally amusing to dress very feminine one day and then more androgynous or masculine the next.”
