The art of what they call female impersonation, or the drag shows, really helped me to hone what type of woman I was.

I was cast in commercials, music videos, and booked a lot of modeling jobs. But my acting career never took off because I was holding myself back. I was acting across from male partners who didn't know that I am trans. I was being taught by teachers who didn't know.

Visibility has an effect on those who are privileged; it brings more privilege, and on those who are marginalized, it brings more marginalization, because it also brings a spotlight onto them where they're at, in the hood or in certain places that are less tolerable.

Pose' makes the case that it's important to have some sort of family structure, even if you have to create one. You know, if I go back home for a while, my mom will be like, 'Oh, I didn't really throw you out the house.' And I know so many other LGBT parents who don't really own or talk about the rejection, and it prevents healing.

I'm just hoping my children will get enough of a foundation to remember what it was like before technology, how good that feels. Because I remember.

It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.

I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.