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Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov in A Searing Burst of Light
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Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov in A Searing Burst of Light
JESSIE MEI LI — by Alison Engstrom for Rose & Ivy
JESSIE MEI LI Photographed by Liam Jackson BRITISH VOGUE (2021)
JESSIE MEI LI & AMITA SUMAN for Wonderland Magazine
JESSIE MEI LI for WHO WHAT WEAR
“My wardrobe kind of looks a bit like a dressing-up box a child might have,” she says. “I absolutely love clothes, and I love putting together outfits. They don’t always look right, they don’t always look well put together, but part of our identity is how we dress. Sometimes, I might be with a friend and they’ll say, ‘What are you wearing?’ And I go, ‘Do you know what? I’m wearing what I wanna wear, and I think I look cool, so I don’t really care what you think.’”
“I was thinking, ‘Well, am I completely non-binary? What am I?’ And I realized, actually I am who I am. I’m first and foremost, just a human being who likes what I like. I am also a woman, and that’s how the world has viewed me the majority of my life. I’m proud of that as well, and I can identify with both those things. I think that’s the thing with your pronouns and gender identity, you can just be who you are. That was so freeing to me to understand that I could have multiple pronouns and some friends will refer to me as they, and some will refer to me as she, and that’s okay … I’m proud to be gender nonconforming. I’m proud of all my friends who are the same. Hopefully as time goes on, it becomes something that more and more people feel they can talk about.”
Jessie Mei Li for Elle photographed by Danny Kasirye
ALINA STARKOV Shadow and Bone | 1.05
JESSIE MEI LI as ALINA STARKOV in Shadow and Bone (2021)