Angelica Ross on Inclusivity in Hollywood, Getting a Buzz Cut, and Blossoming Into Herself

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Okay. How are you feeling about the whole haircut thing?

My glam squad wasn’t necessarily immediately thrilled that I was cutting all my hair off. They get it though, and they see how much it reveals of myself.

The joy is just radiating off of you. Your team said that cutting your hair wasn't just about hair, but having new skin revealed. What does that mean for you? Do you feel like you're coming out of your cocoon in a way?

As a trans woman, a lot of our journey is a process of highlighting our assets and diminishing the things that we don't like. It's more than, “I just don't like this about myself.” For some of us, the dysphoria hits when it's, this makes me feel or look or appear more masculine. If you're willing to pull away the layers, you can reveal a type of beauty that exists with or without those things. And so that's what I needed to see, not just the beauty, but myself. And I was going to say my womanhood, but I'm even speaking beyond that. I don't need to prove my womanhood to nobody at this point.

People can say what they want, this administration can write what they want. I don't need to fight for my truth. I live it. Yes, I'm rallying and fighting for trans rights and our dignity, but do you think I'm debating these ignorant motherfuckers about my truth?

Absolutely not.

That’s a non-negotiable. I need to be able to look at myself stripped down in the mirror and love myself. And it's kind of radical to do that in front of people. And that's what I took a risk in doing.

Your womanhood, it is you. It is part of who you are. I think that's another message that cis and trans people both need to internalize. You don't have to pass or perform in order to be a woman. I just am. I can have that Beyoncé wig on or not. I'm still the same girl.

Absolutely. Now when I remove a wig or makeup, I only feel more beautiful, not less. I could not always say that in the beginning of my transition. I needed the hair. I needed the makeup in order to make me feel like I belonged in the ranks with women in society and that I was enough of a woman. I eventually realized that cis women and trans women doing the same damn thing, trying to fit into unreasonable standards of womanhood.

Black people, when we talk about being attractive, being feminine, hair is absolutely a huge part of it. And when you get to talking about cutting off your hair, it's like you're divorcing yourself from womanhood for a lot of people. So I love that you're talking about it through this lens of, no matter what my hair looks like or how you feel about it, I am who I am.

Just in the same way that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is the gift of transness. If you're willing to look and see me beyond any labels or anything else, there is beauty, there is a lesson, there is wisdom. Or you can reject what you're seeing and not see me at all. And guess what? That's your loss.

As a trans person who was pre-op for most of my experience, I lived more in my spirit than I did in my body. My body felt more of service to these men's fetishes than my own desires. It wasn't until I transitioned that my body now is something that I claim and that I enjoy. I'm in the process of taking better care of my body. So my space is a reflection of me doing that. If we move to a different part of my place, it's where I go chant. Another part is where I'm writing and where I'm giving myself the space to do morning pages. Girl, let me illustrate this real quick here. I got right here across from my desk, this microphone stand.

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