Samantha Szabo, known as Sam, was with Eileen at the protest against the ICE. She also publishes fanzines: she started by writing, and then she came to drawing. In her home, the library is full of comics magazines. Her roommate has a good printer and edits the fanzines for the whole group of friends.
Sam is transgender. She was born with a boy’s body. Her last two fanzines, entitled Girl Hell, are autobiographic diaries where she explains the long way, from realization to hormones, which led him to become her. Choosing a female pronoun has been on of the key steps of this evolution.
«The pronoun question is crucial. It’s hard to understand for people who don’t know anything about transgender people. When you really don’t feel good in your body, because you feel like another gender, or no gender, or both, then you are excluded by the binary system of the male/female language. Create an in-between term indirectly gives us a place in society.
In the US, transgender people usually replace "him" or "her" by "they". For example, if you’re talking about Eileen, you have to say "they". You should say "I met them at the protest". Speaking of one person while using a plural pronoun requires effort : it changes the syntax. It seems complicated but you get used to it. For my part, I chose the «they» pronoun for a while, but now I prefer "her"».