Sport Illustrated dedicates the new cover of his famous Swimsuit Issue to Leyna Bloom, the first African American and Asian transgender model to appear in the magazine. For her this is yet another record conquered: she was the first trans black woman to pose for Vogue India and to play the protagonist in a film in competition at Cannes, by title Port Authority. In the meantime it has become an absolute icon of the New York ball culture (that is, all that set of competitions between various house of the community LGBTQ) and has walked the most important catwalks in the world.
In just 29 years, she has lived a thousand lives and, in fact, she said that all the difficulties she encountered in her path were “small deaths” from which, however, she was always “reborn” with more strength. It must not have been easy at all to grow up on the outskirts of Chicago, start the transition path when she was little more than a teenager and start working in the fashion business making inclusivity her trademark. Difficult, but not impossible because, in a few years, she has managed to achieve goals, challenging an innumerable series of prejudices, which few of her colleagues can boast.
The American magazine stated that it had chosen her as the representative of the “right of every person to love himself and to be whoever he wishes to be”. The model commented that being on that cover means fully representing all the communities she comes from and who helped create the person she is now. “When I started doing this job – he recalled – they told me: you’re a trans woman, black and Asian, you won’t go far. But here I am, also as an example of strength and stubbornness ».
I don’t know about you but I am happy to live in an age where there are so many examples of extraordinary people like Leyna Bloom. People who have not given up on being themselves, but rather have valued their “diversity” making it a strength and demonstrating that beauty can be varied, multifaceted and above all inclusive.
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