Chiugo Akujuobi ’21 spoke to OutSmart magazine about queerness, how growing up in Houston has influenced their identity, and their evolving career goals, which include modeling and a graduate degree in communications. “Honestly, I didn’t even realize my queerness until college,” they said. “It’s so cliché, but it’s real. I feel like I always knew that I wasn’t completely a girl, or a woman, but without [seeing any nonbinary] representation, you can’t really place yourself as nonbinary.”