Griffin Maxwell Brooks

But, yeah, I don't know.

It's interesting now being on the other side of it and looking back and being like, oh, how did I manage all of that?

Yeah, I don't know.

It was interesting.

It sort of helped the...

gender and self-expression and just like existing in the world as who you really want to be perceived as yeah i mean like that's kind of the reason i like i i vividly remember like the moment like which i was in which i was like first like recognized in public yeah somebody came up to me and they were just like oh like i like your tiktoks and i was like oh thank you and then they were like yeah like like watching you do what you do and just like exist like

helped me realize like that i was non-binary and i was like oh that's so sweet sweet it was a little terrifying for me i was like i'm impacting people in ways that i can't even impact myself a girl boss way too close literally but um yeah i mean like i'm it's the reason like i do it it's like hearing that like feedback and like listening to people speak about coming into themselves and like coming into their identity um

not because of me, but in tandem with me and feeling inspired by me was like, oh, people want this.

People see this representation and it's useful.

So I'm going to keep being me as hard as I can.

Sometimes.

If you will.

Yeah.

Sometimes we're serving hilarity.

Yeah, I love irony.

I'm a big fan of irony.

Yeah.

I mean, I speak about it sometimes because I think like fashion was always like a.

um like a tool i used to express myself and but it sort of changed when i like was living in new york and i started like working and like um like having a presence in nightlife um because i was inspired by like the 90s club kids and like the aesthetic of like like drag queens and club kids and you know just like nightlife presences because of how outrageous it was yeah um and how it was such a vessel for like breaking the boundaries of expression in a way that i think

doesn't happen like anywhere else like i think like specifically in nightclubs people are like there is like this essence of like expression through like drama and like almost like a character yeah where it's like look at me and i was like i love that like i feel like we need to see this more yeah and when i started doing it it was more just like it started out like i'm gonna wear something that i like and then it became like a