Elliot Page is gearing up for the release of his powerful memoir, fittingly titledPageboy.
I do feel like I kind of barely made it in many ways, he continued.
But the bliss of feeling truly embodied still catches Page by surprise sometimes.
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Theres been periods in my life where I really felt like I didnt.
So often its a lot more in the quiet moments.
I think we talk about trans joy and euphoria.
So much of it is in the stillness.
To have my shoulders back.
I just was always kind of shut off, anxious.
I used to never feel like my skin was my own.
They encouraged me to go against the forces that were telling me to not be true, he said.
Page applied a similar mentality to the writing of his memoir.
I didn’t think I could write a book, he recalled.
Trans and queer stories are so often picked apart, or worse, universalized.
I just kept writing.
Page acknowledged that the privilege [he has] does not represent the reality of most trans lives.
But the message behindPageboyis a timely and important one, given recent political attacks on the LGBTQ community.
I think it’s crucial, he concluded.
The reality is, trans people disproportionately are unemployed, disproportionately experience homelessness.
Trans women of color are being murdered.
People are losing their health care or couldn’t access it.
