Hey guys!
I'm Kat, and I've been writing and speaking about my experiences as a transgender woman
on Youtube since I was 15 years old.
When I started my Youtube channel, there weren't many people like me being represented... anywhere.
As a teenager, I'd close my eyes and try to envision what the future would look like for
someone like me and no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't see it.
I couldn't imagine myself as a trans adult.
Today, i'm 28 years old and in the over decade of me sharing my stories and experiences,
I've helped inspire trans and queer kids by BEING the trans adult that i couldn't imagine
when I was younger.
And that's helped me understand the importance of representation and how faithfully and accurately
describing your experiences can help educate people and push people towards a place of
empathy and understanding.
Through my time on here, I've tried my very best to own my own narrative and tell it faithfully.
So many things that focus on minority experiences are exploitative and aren't focused on education,
as much as they're focused on creating content that is shocking.
Representation is incredibly important to me and I believe that accurately representing
people can change minds and allow them to see that they are not alone.
So, I wanted to create a series of long form, empathetic, educational, and humanizing interviews
that focus on the misconceptions that many of us have about people's lifestyles and identities.
I've been speaking to people who live and love differently than I do and I've learned...
so much....
- I do remember one particular, um, member that stood out to me was...My mom used to
always go to Goodwill, she still does (laughs).
But um, when we were in Goodwill there was an older white woman who was passing by and
she said.. she looked at me and I was still pretty young, I must have been maybe 7...
8 ish.. and she just looked at me and she said "oh it's been a long time since i've
seen one of those before"
Kat: Oh not one of those..
-and I was like..
- Yes, I do spells...
I don't do curses because... that stuff comes right back at you and I'm not about that life...
Kat: So even though the bottom is in a submissive position, they still have some degree of power...
I guess over the dominant person?
-mmhm, well the idea of submission comes from the word submit, which is a verb.. and action
word.
- Um, I think really the important part of normalizing it is to let women know that they
have a choice.
Obviously I thought and I think a lot of women think that that's just part of being a woman.
Like, you have to shave your body hair.
It's not really a choice, that's just how it is.
- So I usually go to a church until they reveal themselves to be homophobic and then I go
to another church... so it's like musical chairs.
-We're often mistaken for, um, Muslims.
Especially if we're wearing a turban.
Most sikhs are brown, it was actually founded in um, India.
In the northern part of India, Punjab.
-But, ah for me, I'm also gender fluid so... it can... it sways.
It changes all the time.
-There's also asexuals who do ma*****te, and do have sex.
It's um, it's like a huge spectrum basically.
So if that definition doesn't really drive the view, you can still be asexual and have
sex.
I'm super excited to bring you guys these conversations.
I've learned so much from them and they've a lot of my own assumptions.
My focus with this series is accuracy.
I want to accurately portray the people that I interview because so frequently people like
them are misrepresented.
One of the driving forces behind this project is misrepresentation.
What a lot of people may not understand is that there's a lot of money behind the News
Outlets and Creators who misrepresenting marginalized minorities.
They have the resources and the teams to pump out content daily that tells you over and
over again that those who are different from you are out to get you.
But I'm just one person and my goal with this series is to expand it, hire people and maybe
even take it on the road.
And I can only really do that with your help.
Right now, if you become a $5 member of my patreon, you can see every episode of my series,
as it's edited and uploaded to my channel.
That means that you can see these interviews, and all of the other videos I finish for this
channel months and months in advance.
At the time of me filming this video, my patreon has two months worth of interviews available
to view for my 5$ Patreon members.
I'll be honest with you guys, I have never been more excited about my content and I hope
you guys will support me and my new series, JSYK going forward.
Expect to see these interviews every other week on wednesdays, and be sure to tune in
for the premiere where I'll be in the chat reading and responding to your comments as
the video is live.
I hope you'll stick around and continue to learn, share and grow with me!