Monika: How would you describe your personal relationship with fashion, both in the past and today?
Bright Daffodil: I spent many years as a nightclub high-fashion drag queen. However, I never went for the femme realness look. I have always, since the age of six, been inspired by alternative and extreme fashion. My idols in the fashion world are Alexander McQueen, whom I worked for in 1999, Thierry Mugler, and London’s own Pam Hogg. My dress sense was known for being sinister, cutting-edge, and avant-garde. I still love dressing up but take it a lot less seriously now. It is interesting because the decline of nightlife has also led to a decline in new fashion movements and underground music scenes.
Monika: What do you think about the current fashion and nightlife landscape, especially within queer and trans communities?
Bright Daffodil: The gentrification of London seems to be inspiring new creativity, with nightclubs such as my own local community Transister.London, Kaos, Shoes, and Legion bringing forth a new wave of nu-goth looks and intelligent music. The trans and queer scenes are leading the way in this, as they did in the 80s and 90s respectfully. Genderqueer DJs such as Bamboo Herman, Chicken, Halo-is, and promoters such as Lee Adams are real scene innovators who imbue the underground with a strong sense of solidarity. Genderqueer and androgynous performers such as Andro Andrex and Synth make me proud to be part of such a creatively fluid community.
Monika: How would you describe the role that love plays in your life and in your understanding of yourself?
Bright Daffodil: I am love. Love is the very essence of my soul, and I believe it is the essence of every soul, all of which are part of a greater soul. The soul is universal, unconditional love, nothing more or less. We are like raindrops of love from an endless ocean of ubiquitous love, individuating through reincarnation to experience life, and in doing so we demonstrate ourselves as love. Through this, we manifest our highest desires, which are to be love, do love, and have love.
Monika: How has your spiritual journey shaped your understanding of love and its purpose?
Bright Daffodil: Love is the purpose of my life, and that love extends to every sentient being. My book goes deeply into the revelations I gained during my three-year marriage to the ancient medicine Ayahuasca. There is nothing more relevant to the world today than gaining a greater understanding of ourselves and what we truly are, which is unconditional love.
Monika: What message do you hope people will take from your beliefs about love, spirituality, and human connection?
Bright Daffodil: We need to come together as a global human consciousness and rethink the idea of God as something we should fear. We are all God, and all there is is love. I am greatly influenced by David Icke, as well as authors such as Neale Donald Walsch and Thom Hartmann, whose message aligns closely with mine. We are all one, there are enough resources on this planet to feed the entire population, and no one should live in poverty once we recognize that religion, politics, and other socially paralyzing institutions are not working for the greater good but for the profit of a few. It is a great word, profit, though I prefer prophet, wink.
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Monika: Many transgender and intersex women write memoirs. Have you ever considered writing a book about your own life?
Bright Daffodil: The novel I am working on is a great gift to me because I am channeling a lot of cosmic information from a source I would call universal love. I have wanted to be an author all my life, but now I understand that I had to live this rich and challenging life in order to have the material.
Monika: What inspired the themes and direction of the novel you are writing?
Bright Daffodil: My spiritual inquiry with the plant medicine ayahuasca is the foundation of the story, in which many insights into my life not only as an intersex person but also as an empathic and sensitive human being are revealed. I believe I am here on Earth to spread a message through example, and that message is to understand and love everyone as a reflection of yourself. We are all one. Our experience and ego may trick us into believing otherwise, but I think people around the world are waking up to the idea that we, as a species, are undergoing an ascension into a new possibility.
Monika: In your view, what challenges or choices does humanity face at this moment in history?
Bright Daffodil: There is a possibility of an ever-increasing new world order, a fascist state, and a corporatocracy, something like what we have read about in books such as 1984 and Brave New World. There is also a possibility that humans will begin to confront facts such as using spare grain to feed cows that graze on devastated rainforests to produce food for people who already have enough, all for profit, while killing the planet and allowing the majority to starve. Does this not seem like a reflection of the times we are living in, where humanity is becoming seduced by technology into an ever-growing sense of separation and pathological narcissism?
Monika: What new creative or community projects are you involved in at the moment?
Bright Daffodil: TRANSISTER is a queer and gender-variant event that I am part of. It is only three months old and was started as a response to the current situation in which our venues and spaces are being closed down and turned into yuppie flats and coffee shops. It was also created because android phone apps have made sex as easy as ordering fast food. This is harming the queer community, literally, as crystal meth and GHB addiction in the context of organized gangbangs are becoming the norm.
Monika: What needs do you hope TRANSISTER will address for trans women and the wider queer community?
Bright Daffodil: Many trans women need a social outlet that allows them to connect with other trans people in an environment where they can be respected and admired not only in a sexual sense. This is why the event is called Transister. There is a sexual element to the party because we want to recreate the hedonistic energy that London is rapidly losing by restricting freedom of expression. The party takes place over two floors and offers plenty of room for creativity and socializing. We are using the event to raise funds for other communities.
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Monika: What causes will benefit from the funds raised at the upcoming parties?
Bright Daffodil: The next few parties will raise money for council tenants in London who are being displaced in the current trend of selling off social housing to developers, who then turn it into luxury flats. This destroys local communities and moves poor people as far as 200 miles from their family, friends, and support networks. We are queers for council housing.
Monika: How do you see TRANSISTER functioning within broader community activism?
Bright Daffodil: We are, as a valid community, seeking to represent all communities and support them through solidarity. This is the purpose of organizing these events and coming together. People create a conduit for raising funds for those who need it.
Monika: Aside from community events, what personal creative projects are you focusing on now?
Bright Daffodil: As I mentioned, I am writing a book, which can be seen in many ways as an autobiography. It can also be seen as a channel of love and light, since all information is light. The book addresses many topics people prefer to ignore because they are painful, such as the fact that we live under a system of the Federal Reserve and what that means, and what it means for a species to live under religions that promote separatism and the idea that God is judgmental and to be feared, as well as how these myths originated.
Monika: What themes from history or spirituality play a role in your book?
Bright Daffodil: This is where my book becomes especially interesting, as I discuss previous human societies and the role of women and gender-variant people in those submerged cultures. My book is the product of three years of intense research, experience, and spiritual divination. It is a human story, a soul's story, and a story I hope will inspire others to begin their own inquiry.
Monika: What guidance would you offer to transgender girls who are struggling with being intersex?
Bright Daffodil: My strongest recommendation to any human being who is struggling is to accept reality and change your perception of it. All suffering comes from thought, and not all thought is useful. I believe we create our realities and our life experiences through the manifestation of thought, so it is very important to monitor what we think.
Monika: How can someone approach their identity in a way that brings confidence and peace?
Bright Daffodil: Always think positively and always treat others how you wish to be treated, even those who direct hate toward you, because they are the ones who need love the most. See your gender identity as a gift, something your soul has chosen for this unique experience and insight into human ideas of separation and duality. Male and female are simply expressions of experience, experience is the expression of creation, and creation is the expression of being. We truly have the power to change everything once we wake up to that, and we can be whoever we want to be.
Monika: Bright Daffodil, thank you for the interview!
END OF PART 2
All the photos: courtesy of Bright Daffodil.
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