Trans model and actress Indya Moore has given a masterclass in how to use your platform for good, walking the red carpet wearing jewellery and accessories featuring photographs of the so far in 2019.
Moore, who plays Angel on FX series Pose, was attending the annual Fashion Media Awards as part of New York Fashion Week, accepting the honour of Cover of the Year for Elle’s .
“Some of you may be uncomfortable with the politics of my speech. And I won’t apologise for that, because my life is politics."
They continued: "Right now in the Supreme Court, they’re voting on whether or not trans people can access employment, shelter, and healthcare in the same ways that you all have access. It’s hard to celebrate being celebrated for being myself during a time when people like me are being murdered for being themselves.”
Wearing a gown by Oscar de la Renta, Moore wore long earrings, created by stylist Ian Bradley and jewellery designer Areeayl Yoseefaw, which featured tiny framed photographs of the first 16 black trans women - while carrying a larger framed photo of 17-year-old Bailey Reeves, who was in the US state of Maryland.
“On this day that I’m celebrated and awarded for being visible, I decided to bring them with me," Moore said in reference to the jewellery.
"I’m wearing them on my ears as earrings. Just like me these women dare to exhaust their freedom to exist by being visible; however, instead of being celebrated, they were punished for it.”
Moore also used their acceptance speech to remind the audience that the average life expectancy for .
"In their hour of celebration they put their trans sisters in the forefront," the designer wrote.
"They spoke for those who cannot and became a light for everyone. I am both honoured [and] charged by this to continue creating, speaking up, standing up and breaking the boundaries of invisible divides between us."
