2019 was hard. I singlehandedly swung a bat at something that continues to feel deeply personal to me: my social media presence. Let’s face it. These sites are multiple in their benefits; they are a means to connect as much as a means to both individually and collectively diarize our lives. During this decade I became a teenager (12/16/09), discovered my love for music, began songwriting, joined Facebook (twice), had my childhood best friend and neighbor move to Texas, anxiously experienced my body changing into a man’s, had my first loves both male and female, became an adult, became a woman, played my first (and hopefully not last?) shows, starred in a Grammy-nominated music video for social change, modeled, explored conservatism... alongside the social shifts in politics, in technology, in American cultural identity, this decade has been extremely groundbreaking for me and many. I imagine 2018 me hoped to have a much larger audience to divulge this too. 2019 me does. And 2019 me wishes her Internet backdraft were still available in full, because it is a lovely story, full of metamorphosis and many, many people from myriad walks of life. But I guess I carry a mystique too now. Not many can say that. 2008-2019. Do I look any different? #mtf #transsinger #decadechallenge #2010s #donthitdelete #loveyoumom #mystory #onajourney #mystery (at Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5J3vECgoL3/?igshid=hsjch97b9mvf