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I started hormone therapy illegally and I thought I looked good enough for my family to accept. I was wrong. It was a disaster. My sister ran screaming calling me the demon with blue eyes. Using her Christianity as the base for her insight into seeing me as a demon.
- Dominique Jackson
#Disaster
#Eyes
#Family
#Good
#Me
Whenever I have to go out or do something, it must be glamour.
- Dominique Jackson
#Glamour
#Go
#Must
#Out
#Something
Pride can never be just a month.
- Dominique Jackson
#Just
#Month
#Never
#Pride
People have to realize that it is not OK to hurt another human being. And that is what we forget.
- Dominique Jackson
#Forget
#Human Being
#Human
#Hurt
#People
Being on 'Pose' for me has now allowed me to realize how important my culture is. It's made me realize how important the struggles that everyone has gone through are, and now we are able to tell that story.
- Dominique Jackson
#Culture
#Everyone
#Important
#Me
#Pose
People talk about ballroom, but they don't really understand the history. Crystal Labeija, Avis Pendavis, Paris Dupree, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey. These were the women that really brought ballroom to life.
- Dominique Jackson
#Crystal
#History
#Life
#People
#Women
We celebrate pride every day of the year - whether it's black pride, whether LGBTQIA + pride, whether it's the pride of being a woman, whether it's the pride of being a mother, we should be proud of who we are each and every day.
- Dominique Jackson
#Black
#Celebrate
#Day
#Every Day
#Pride
Don't tell me what I need. Start looking at the people in front of you, appreciate the diversity in the community, respect it. Don't debate it.
- Dominique Jackson
#Community
#Debate
#Diversity
#Respect
We live in this realm where things exist but we pretend they don't exist, so that makes them, you know, nonexistent.
- Dominique Jackson
#Exist
#Know
#Live
#Pretend
#Things
I realised that I couldn't live in a box. It was not for me.
- Dominique Jackson
#Box
#Live
#Me
#Realised
I'm so proud to be able to share my story with others who might be going through a similar process with their identity.
- Dominique Jackson
#Identity
#Others
#Process
#Proud
#Story
Don't tell me about tolerance. Don't tell me about acceptance. Look at me as the woman that I am and respect that.
- Dominique Jackson
#Acceptance
#I Am
#Look
#Me
#Respect
We all want to be normal, but it's relative to individuality. My normal is not your normal.
- Dominique Jackson
#Individuality
#Normal
#Want
#Your
We are human beings, we matter, and we will not be erased.
- Dominique Jackson
#Human Beings
#Human
#Matter
#Will
In the realness categories, what happens is you walk and your peers judge you, because if you're not able to walk amongst your peers and pass as being cis male or cis female, then it's obvious that you haven't done enough work. They wanted you to be able to go outside and come back home safely.
- Dominique Jackson
#Back
#Enough
#Home
#Walk
#Work
If your community tells you that you're an abomination, that you're nothing and, because of who you are, you'll never amount to anything, why would you love yourself? Why would you save money? Why would you set goals?
- Dominique Jackson
#Community
#Love Yourself
#Love
#Money
We have to continue to empower each other... we do not have to live in this marginalisation, we do not have to live in oppression, but our fight to get out of it is not going to be an easy one.
- Dominique Jackson
#Continue
#Easy
#Fight
#Live
#Oppression
I learned that there is an inner strength that blossoms when one cleanses themselves by processing and attempting to comprehend their situation and/or experience. Writing became my therapy!
- Dominique Jackson
#Experience
#Situation
#Strength
#Writing
You will not tell me that you accept me. You will not tell me that you tolerate me. That is not your power. I take that from you. You will respect me for who I am.
- Dominique Jackson
#Accept
#I Am
#Me
#Power
#Respect
I learned that I have purpose and my experiences no matter how horrible taught me heart, strength and forgiveness!
- Dominique Jackson
#Forgiveness
#Heart
#Purpose
#Strength
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