Oni‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ Lem tells about her New York life since 2011, which includes housing instability, sex work, and the hardships of survival while at the same time making art and doing activism. She recalls queer nightlife, abusive relationships, and homelessness from her childhood and youth, as well as her organizing activities with the likes of NYTAG and STARR to fight for trans rights and harm reduction. Lem thinks about her transition, body modification, and how she has been affected by Medicaid’s coverage of gender-affirming, at the same time critiquing systemic violence, respectability politics, and the art world’s dependence on symbolic gestures rather than material change. Her story is an argument for the necessity of community-based direct support, such as housing, harm reduction, and prison abolition, rather than reformist strategies, proposing everyday acts of solidarity as the most important means of dismantling the system of oppression.