“I was visible and invisible at the same time,” Rocero says of launching her modelling career before coming out publicly as trans.
I think in 2015, when I started a production company called Gender Proud. That’s when I started thinking,and that was the beginning of the idea to write a book. Since 2015, I’ve just been collecting stories, whether on a notepad or in my Notes app; whenever there’s a story that I know will be a pivotal moment in my life, I write it down. I also started reading a lot of memoirs, and just before the pandemic, my team was like, “It’s time to write a book.
I was so fascinated by the parts of your book that discuss working in the fashion industry as a model before publicly coming out as trans. How does it feel to be looking back on that journey now? When it comes to the modelling part, when I was first sitting down and writing the book, the first thing I asked myself was,I decided to tackle the most difficult and complicated of many triggering moments in my life, which is the time when I was modelling and living this dual reality and having to calculate everything that I was saying, because, you know, I chose a career that is all about being visible and front-and-centre.
How does it feel to be releasing this memoir as things are getting exponentially harder for so many queer and trans people? In 2014, when I did my TED Talk, I was part of that wave of that mainstream visibility of trans people; in June of that year, the Laverne Coxmagazine came out. Hopefully, we now know that visibility is part of claiming justice in society, but it’s not thepart; that notion that you just have to be visible and come out and things will be fine doesn’t always apply to trans people.
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