00:00I'm Erica and this is my partner I am.
00:02People feel like you can't be pretty and gay.
00:05Girls do anything for male attention.
00:07You're both pretty, but look for men and get married.
00:10They feel like as you're a lesbian and you choose to be a stud,
00:13you can't really choose to be a girly girl too.
00:16I will be switching to my masculine side.
00:18She's definitely going to shock you though.
00:20We're going to sit down with my mom and get her reaction on my change and my hairstyle.
00:26I'm not a big fan of locks on females.
00:29So it's kind of rogue, they would call it.
00:32No matter what they say, don't judge a book by its cover.
00:35When I see you, my brain automatically formulates an opinion about you.
00:43Wash our hands.
00:45I could have let you do that for me.
00:47I'm Erica and this is my partner Iyana.
00:49Men say we are a waste of females.
00:52Majority of people think of a gay couple.
00:54They never think of pretty girls.
00:56We met in high school and then we were kindled a couple years after that and then that's when we started talking.
01:02Well, I always was attracted to her.
01:04She was very beautiful.
01:05I never imagined lesbians being together.
01:08You don't even need that much.
01:10Uh-uh.
01:11Why is it so globby?
01:13We've been living together for the whole year and a half.
01:17Lesbian couples usually move very fast.
01:20So we was moved in probably about the first, second month.
01:25And that's really hard when it comes to two girls.
01:28She got makeup everywhere and I'm just like the tomboy.
01:31So I got my, you know, stuff everywhere.
01:34There's gonna be a timer.
01:36Ready?
01:36Mm-hmm.
01:37We do vlogs, pranks, comedy skits, dance videos on TikTok.
01:42All the judgment that I've gotten has been from social media.
01:45They feel like you can't be pretty and gay.
01:47You have to talk to a man.
01:49The same thing, just like I'm a waste of a female.
01:52Guys should be creating babies and the whole housewife type of thing.
01:57And that's not me.
01:58This one says, looks like two completely lost souls to me.
02:04Like, what do you mean by that?
02:05What are you referring to?
02:06Girls do anything for male attention.
02:08Why would you even be doing this?
02:10Girls even play lesbian for male attention.
02:12It's crazy.
02:13Someone say, you're both pretty, but look for a man and get married.
02:16You are being the children of your father, the devil.
02:20Repent and be the children of your real father, God.
02:23All men.
02:24It's always men.
02:24Sometimes we get a lot from, like, the females, but not really.
02:28This is what the world came to.
02:30I'm an 80s baby, raised in the 90s.
02:32Growing up, you didn't see this kind of stuff, nor did they promote it in movies.
02:36It's crazy time we living in.
02:38I don't get what's crazy about two girls being together in love.
02:42You both are a waste of time and wasting...
02:46Yeah.
02:47Like, we're a waste of coochies.
02:50Put some babies in there.
02:51Men deserve that.
02:52And we're just like, really?
02:55A man deserves my body.
02:56Want us to be with a man, just so a man can mistreat.
03:00I just let them do their thing.
03:01Because at the end of the day, we can't control what anyone says.
03:04I just look at it as a bright side.
03:05I mean, if you don't have haters, you're not popping.
03:08So, my personal style is definitely pink.
03:10I feel like I am a Barbie girl.
03:12I love pink.
03:14Everything about me is pink.
03:15They feel like, as you a lesbian and you choose to be a stud, you can't really choose to be a girly girl, too.
03:20But me, I did what I wanted to do.
03:23My personal style, it really depends on how I genuinely feel.
03:27Sometimes I feel like I just want to be like her.
03:30Sometimes I want to wear sweatpants and just be casual.
03:33When we first looked up, she dressed both.
03:35The first time, she was very masked, and then she switched a week or two later.
03:39And I'd never seen her with the wig and stuff.
03:42So, I was like, oh my gosh.
03:43Like, you are actually very pretty.
03:46So, later on, I will be switching to my masculine side.
03:51I'm getting my dress retwisted and a haircut.
03:54The switch and the demeanor will change.
03:57But just, it's going to be good.
04:00She's definitely going to shock you, though.
04:02The vibe I want to get off when I'm masked.
04:05I'm still very feminine.
04:06I really like to add a little glitter and glime with my style.
04:11Since I was a little girl, sometimes I wear my skirt and little flip-flops with my mom.
04:15And sometimes I'm with my brother playing football.
04:17I've been this way.
04:18I'm never changing.
04:19I think she looks her best with both.
04:21When she is more feminine, I feel like we get along a lot better.
04:25Like, we bond better.
04:26But when she's masculine, it's like a challenge a little bit.
04:30So, it's like she's the leader.
04:35We're going to sit down with my mom and get her reaction on my change and my hairstyle.
04:41And see how she likes it.
04:43Hopefully, she likes it, guys.
04:44Because as you can see, I look pretty good.
04:47My name is Marcia, mother of Erica.
04:50Erica's masculine side comes from not wanting to be controlled.
04:54She wants to be Erica so loud and proud.
04:57She wants everybody to know, well, I can be cute and girly if I want to.
05:01Or I can be, you know, masculine.
05:03I'm not a big fan of that.
05:05I'm not a big fan of locks on females.
05:08I think it takes too much away from the feminine side and adds more to the masculine side.
05:13And the clothes are definitely not, given of my little girl, that I would want her to look like.
05:19So, definitely not.
05:20You guys look really nice, but Ayanna, I mean, you got everything going.
05:25Your hair is beautiful.
05:26What brought this on with Erica today?
05:27How do you feel about the way she's looking?
05:29I think she looks really nice.
05:31I like how she can switch it up from femme to mask.
05:35Some people like the way that I look and dress, you know.
05:38Well, you know, I did have a daughter and haircuts were really, yeah.
05:44But see, that's how I want to explain to you.
05:46When stuff is not part of the plan, it can still be planned.
05:49Because you didn't plan me to have me a haircut.
05:51But I planned my own life.
05:53So, it's kind of like off-road.
05:56It's really not, you know, the path.
05:58It's kind of rogue, say what call it.
06:01Who is they?
06:02Me.
06:03You.
06:03Okay.
06:04There we go.
06:05You, exactly.
06:06But you're okay with it?
06:07Yes, 100%.
06:09Yeah.
06:10Which one do you like better, though?
06:12I like them both equally.
06:13There's no way.
06:14It is.
06:15I just feel I like them both.
06:18So, when you're all dressed up and ready to go out, you don't care which Erica comes?
06:22Mm-mm.
06:23Just any Erica?
06:24Yes.
06:25Any Erica.
06:26Because they are the same person.
06:28It's just a change of style.
06:30Why is it like that my feminine have you up here and my masculine have you down here
06:34when I'm genuinely the same person that you gave birth to?
06:37Well, I think every mother that has a daughter that she wants in her image.
06:41So, I would never have that image.
06:44So, when you're that girl, you don't reflect me as a mom who raised a daughter.
06:51You reflect a person who's rejecting their feminine side.
06:56So, as any mother, they want their daughters to be pretty.
06:59We want to have princesses.
07:00If we're queens, we want princesses.
07:03You know, our boys are our boys and they're our little prince.
07:07But we don't think that our princess is also going to be our prince.
07:10What about a studette?
07:12That's not a word.
07:14A studette.
07:16That means I have a little feminine and a little mask.
07:19You know, stutter has never been a good word.
07:22Nobody likes a stutter.
07:23Nobody likes a judgmental person.
07:26But we are here, right?
07:28Well, I'm not judging.
07:30I'm choosing.
07:31So, my question is, because I'm a mask, I'm not a princess anymore.
07:35I don't deserve to be treated like a princess because I have an edge up.
07:38Right?
07:39Is that, that's what you're telling me?
07:41Well, when you approach me and you're looking like my son instead of my daughter,
07:45I'm not going to offer you a spray of perfume or let me fix your lip gloss.
07:50So, your love is conditioned.
07:51So, that's not love.
07:53That's treatment.
07:54I love you, regardless of how you look.
07:57But the treatment that you will receive when you look like this versus the treatment that
08:02you will receive when you look like that is definitely going to be different.
08:08I could have sworn a saying was said, don't judge a book by its cover.
08:12So, I've already pretty much made a judgment.
08:15I'm not just coming from mom.
08:17I'm coming from the world.
08:18So, no matter what they say, don't judge a book by its cover.
08:21When I see you, my brain automatically formulates an opinion about you.
08:27Me, I'm going to be myself regardless of how all the whole world feels.
08:32And I'm going to be myself even with how you feel.
08:34Because you have never liked this side of me.
08:36You have always told me, ew, these ugly dreads.
08:39You know, judge me in those sorts of ways.
08:42But at the end of the day, I stayed true to myself.
08:44Well, there's one good thing about it.
08:46Some days you come in your wig and some days you don't.
08:49So, guess what?
08:50I still get to have my little princess.
08:52And then I get to have my little thug dread girl.
08:56That you need to help move big suitcases and stuff like that.
08:59Oh, yeah.
09:00I need that.
09:01Okay.
09:02Do you worry about what other people think when it comes to Erica and her mask?
09:10Actually, I don't worry about anybody's opinion but my own.
09:14I'm always Mama Bear.
09:16So, if anybody says anything, I'm coming.
09:20I feel like that this relationship works because we know love is a feeling, but it's also a choice.
09:25We wake up every day ready to love each other, ready to work through all our problems.
09:29The people that judges us, I feel like they should just love themselves more.
09:34Genuinely.
09:35It's just miserable to just sit on your phone all day and just write negative comments.
09:40We're going to live our life how we want to live our life.
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