Dance is for every body. Fat, skinny, athletic, disabled, white, black, brown, tall, short it doesn’t matter. Dance is for you. Dance is about being present in your body. Moving in the way your body is able to express yourself in that moment. There is no right or wrong way to dance.

I was “accepted” as long as I fit the standard expected of me. As long as I played the part that I was cast at birth. That didn’t help with feeling like an outsider. I didn’t allow myself to connect with people deeply because I didn’t want them to see past the walls that I kept up to hide this side of me that went so entirely out of bounds of what was acceptable.