It’s a powerful account of how the queer body can be an instrument of God, especially striking because religion has functioned as an institution of rejection and judgment for many queer people. I want them to find the self-belief that they deserve the fullness of that for their own stories.” “Writing this book, knowing the fullness of my journey, I want the kids to find the fullness of their own stories. When we sit down at the Ludlow Hotel for lunch, she’s still teeming with excitement over the experience. Rocero and I are taking our unseasonably warm stroll the morning after the first reading for Horse Barbie (at the Lincoln Center, no less). I could express things and then figure it out from there.” But it was more like, ‘Okay, this is what I've been looking for.’ I could be who I am. “I felt like this is the last stop - not because it was the end or anything like that. “After that TED Talk, I felt at home finally," she tells me. “Will you?” An immediate viral sensation, it has since garnered millions of views online.
“My deepest truth allowed me to accept who I am,” she said at the end of the TED Talk. Despite working with high-profile brands like Rimmel Cosmetics and Hanes, Rocero’s entire career had been fraught with the fear of being found out - a sharp contrast to her pageant days back in the Philippines, where her transness was hypervisible. When she decided to give the speech, shortly after her 30th birthday, not even her agent knew she was trans. It is a story Rocero has been waiting to tell since coming out as a trans woman in her viral 2014 TED Talk, “Why I Must Come Out,” which marked the end of her time spent stealthily navigating the fashion industry. “Let me be fully myself - all of it, the complexities of it, the fear, the love.”
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