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  • - I'm one of the Long Nail Goddesses.

  • It's a community of ladies with long nails.

  • Long nails have been a part of my life

  • practically all my life.

  • The First Lady is the pastor's wife.

  • Traditionally, first ladies have big hats,

  • short nails; and I'm a first lady

  • with long nails and fascinators.

  • Tradition doesn't define me, so why would

  • I cut my nails for church?

  • If I can't come in being who I am,

  • what good am I going to do for anybody

  • sitting on any one of these rows?

  • Everybody is somebody, at

  • First Zion Hill Baptist Church.

  • Long Nail Goddesses feel just

  • as welcome as anybody else.

  • (upbeat violin music)

  • (dramatic music)

  • - Tell her we're leaving to church.

  • - We on our way.

  • - Maria has been doing my nails for about five years.

  • Every week I go for four to five hours

  • to get my nails done.

  • - Hi baby, how are you?

  • - When she opens the floor, she opens

  • her doors for all of us to come together.

  • That's our community.

  • - I've been doing nails almost 23 years.

  • Since I was young, I already knew, I was different.

  • It definitely helped me to identify with my girls.

  • I came out in the '80s as transgender,

  • and it was very difficult for me.

  • Being ostracized by society;

  • I know what it is to be rejected.

  • Knowing how that feels, I created

  • a safe haven for the girls, and I needed that myself.

  • We are a family.

  • (nails clicking together)

  • - People ask me questions like,

  • "How do you do anything?"

  • Like I clean my baseboards;

  • I clean my oven;

  • I put contacts in!

  • They grew, I didn't glue them on.

  • They grew, so that's how I know how to use them.

  • When we're out in the world,

  • people say nasty things, some whisper.

  • It's so rude.

  • It hurts, but I could talk to Maria.

  • I can vent.

  • She doesn't realize the power that she has,

  • with being able to build a person's spirit with nails.

  • And when I leave out of there, it's like

  • OK, my nails look beautiful; I feel beautiful;

  • and I'm revived, I'm charged, let's go.

  • - It's just like heaven, you know?

  • You laugh, you joke, we talk to one another

  • about this and that; and I love just being here.

  • - People speak different languages,

  • but we all speak this one language.

  • And we all live this right here.

  • - I love these girls.

  • They're the sisters that I don't have, I have six brothers.

  • And these are the women in my life.

  • - Our community at the salon,

  • that's where I go get my mojo back so to speak.

  • So, that's what we do when we gather.

  • We help each other.

  • Seeing my Long Nail Goddess sisters

  • sit in my pew at church is the most amazing experience.

  • That also lets me know that beyond our salon walls,

  • we support each other.

  • The Long Nail Goddesses, it's a community of love.

- I'm one of the Long Nail Goddesses.

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遇見長指甲女神 (Meet the Long Nail Goddesses)

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