Meet Aaron Philip, the Trans, Disabled Model Shaking Up the Fashion Industry

It started with a tweet. ‘Honestly when I get scouted/discovered by a modeling agency it’s OVER for y’all,’ wrote Aaron. ‘By y’all I mean the WORLD! ‘It’s real inclusivity/diversity hours folks, get into it!’ That tweet, along with two photos of Aaron in her wheelchair, quickly racked up more than 24,000 retweets and 89,000 likes. That was back in November. Now, Aaron’s appeared in ASOS magazine, posed in H&M’s pride collection, and has been featured by everyone from Paper Magazine to Them. Basically, she’s taking over the fashion world.

That’s a big deal, because Aaron (pronounced A-ron) Philip is not the standard model we’re so used to seeing. She’s 17 years old, she identifies as a non-binary transgender girl and gender non-conforming femme (her pronouns are she/her or they/them), she’s black, and she uses a wheelchair. ‘I was diagnosed with quadriplegic cerebral palsy from birth,’ Aaron tells Metro.co.uk. ‘CP affects my fine motor skills and general movement, hence my muscle spasticity and depending on my motorised wheelchair to get around.

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