For the August 2023 digital cover of the Manila Bulletin Lifestyle, Leyna talks about coming back to the Philippines, championing trans representation, and taking up spaces. READ:
For the August 2023 digital cover of the Manila Bulletin Lifestyle, Leyna talks about coming back to the Philippines, championing trans representation, and taking up spaces“You have to let them know that you are powerful—that you are beautiful.” That’s what Leyna Bloom said to the Filipino participants during her Face Category class last May. Everyone eagerly listened as she showed them how to pose, project, and tell a story through their body.
This is not the first time Leyna visited the Philippines. She described her first memories of home as something black and white. “There wasn’t so much color. It was very like, sensationalizing the white Filipinas,” she said. Although she is not the first Afro-Filipina in the local modeling scene, she is among the first to stand in front of the cameras as a transwoman model of color. According to her, fashion photographer BJ Pascual led her to be signed as a model for Elite Model Management Manila in 2016. While there was no doubt about her modeling skills, she confessed that the local scene then wasn’t that ready for someone like her.
“We don’t ask how we are born, we don’t ask the parents we are born into, we just have to make the most out of it,” Leyna said. “I feel like in society, we are not raised like that. We are raised that more people are powerful than us. What I see is that we are equal to them and they are equal to us. We are all on the same level. We all deserve a chance. We need to break that glass ceiling and start over.
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