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Miss saHHara was born to be a beauty pageant queen. As a child at home in Nigeria she would wrap herself in a mosquito net and sashay along a make-believe cat walk, delivering inspirational speeches to an imagined audience.
But when she grew up and started to compete, she found that not only was she rejected from all the mainstream pageants she tried to enter, even trans beauty pageants seemed to celebrate all the cliched cisgender beauty norms.
So, Miss saHHara decided to do something about it: She founded Miss Trans Global, a pageant where everybody is welcome, and where your advocacy and community work mean much more than the lightness of your skin or the bounciness of your hair.
Related Resources
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Big Door Brigade - Mutual Aid Toolbox
Transgender Law Centre
Trans Rescue
The Gender Reveal Podcast
Jesse Lou Lawson - Media consultancy
The Girlfriends: Spotlight is not affiliated to any of these organizations and we are not in a position to endorse them.
The Girlfriends: Spotlight is produced by Novel for iHeartPodcasts.
For more from Novel visit Novel.Audio
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Miss saHHara was born to be a beauty pageant queen. As a child at home in Nigeria she would wrap herself in a mosquito net and sashay along a make-believe cat walk, delivering inspirational speeches to an imagined audience.
But when she grew up and started to compete, she found that not only was she rejected from all the mainstream pageants she tried to enter, even trans beauty pageants seemed to celebrate all the cliched cisgender beauty norms.
So, Miss saHHara decided to do something about it: She founded Miss Trans Global, a pageant where everybody is welcome, and where your advocacy and community work mean much more than the lightness of your skin or the bounciness of your hair.
Related Resources
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Big Door Brigade - Mutual Aid Toolbox
Transgender Law Centre
Trans Rescue
The Gender Reveal Podcast
Jesse Lou Lawson - Media consultancy
The Girlfriends: Spotlight is not affiliated to any of these organizations and we are not in a position to endorse them.
The Girlfriends: Spotlight is produced by Novel for iHeartPodcasts.
For more from Novel visit Novel.Audio
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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