JEREMY MOINEAU.

Model and dancer.

Jamie Windust: How do you find working as a dancer intersects with your identity? To me, I love it. The freedom and fluidity in both your identity and the dancing that you do seems like a perfect combination.

Jeremy Moineau: Being a dancer is like viewing the world through another lens and experiencing everything in a much more intense way. You start to hear the rhythm in a car engine the same as you would hear the beat under a music track, things like that. My background in dance also helped me understand gender fluidity because so much of what we do as dancers is fluid and experimental and very much about discovery of self.

JW: Your social media is a true curation of beautiful content, structured in such an effortless way. What power does social media have for you when it comes to being able to interact with your trans/ GNC siblings?

JM: Thank you so much! I’m sure that we’ve all heard about the pros and cons of social media, but one of my bi¦est pro take aways is definitely being able to be visible and available to others in my tribe while also interacting with people I may not normally have a chance to. One of my favourite sayings is, ‘If you don’t show, they don’t know’, which basically means that if you don’t shine a light on your talents and individuality, it will never be seen or recognised. You might be able to do a great backflip, but unless I’ve seen it, I’m going to continue through life not knowing that you have that inside you. Social media helps in bringing those talents to the front.

JW: What are your goals for 2019 for you and the trans/GNC community?

JM: My personal goals are to continue modeling and dancing, find ways to cut back on sugar – believe me, it’s really hard in the US – and y’know, fall in love or like whatever. For my community: I’m going to try to volunteer more with LGBTQ youth, especially those on the non-binary spectrum. I really want to support and highlight more gay, trans, POC brothers and sisters in the entertainment industry in lead roles, and I’m also going to start focusing my energy to a calculated plan to work towards protecting and fighting for the rights of my community. I think that I, like a lot of people, have been really reactionary in regards to political change and all of the attacks coming out of DC. But it’s time to actually focus and think about what we want as a community and to start making demands, rather than just trying to keep clearing the grenades that are thrown into our camp. If we wait for those at our opposition to outline how we have to exist and then negotiate and fight for equality from there, it’s a harder fight to win. I’d rather call the shots. We have more power collectively than everyone even knows.