correctly. I put the song on and suddenly it felt as if everything was aligned, that people might realize they had been looking at me through the wrong lens the whole time, that their version of the world was wrong and not mine. Even now, a it plays, a feeling snaps through my bones that the world sees me as I am, that no one thinks of me as a woman, that I am understood. "Now, thinking back on how obsessed I was, I just knew I wanted your job," Millie Bobby Brown shared. "I didn't know how to get your job, but I was like, 'I want to be like Hannah Montana [but] I don't know how to do it.' Then I realized it was an actual job and I was like, 'Oh, I want to do that! That sounds fun. I didn't even know you could get money for it. I was like, 'I'll do it for free.'" I could see myself rebirthed, in my mind’s eye, walking across the Brooklyn Bridge with short hair, tattoos, and piercings — a different gender presentation, a different life. “Mr. Blue Sky” by Electric Light Orchestra plays in the background, offering another reality, one that I imagine cis, straight people always get to feel. Everything is right. The way people see and think about me on the outside matches who I am inside. When people talk about your music, they often compare you to other R&B artists like Janet, Aaliyah, andRihannaDo you welcome comparisons to other artists?T: