“Where's the trans people? You need more trans people in the closet. Here's Paris is Burning, this will do. It's a doc that changed my life. I saw it when I was probably a teenager and it blew my world open. Wow, look at Venus, Venus Xtravaganza. I'm a ballroom girl of 20 years or so and this is still kind of like the window into our world. When I think about Octavia Saint Laurent and Venus and all of the girls in the film, I just think about how they were born a little ahead of their time.”