HANNAH JONES IS A RAY OF LIGHT: LAYERED BEAUTY STORY UNVEIL

Maisie Daniels
21 hours ago
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INTERVIEW ROB CORSINI - PHOTOGRAPHY MICHAEL HIGHAM - CREATIVE DIRECTION + PRODUCTION MAISIE JANE DANIELS - MAKEUP MATILDE RIBAU - HAIR ALEV MILLER - VIDEOGRAPHY RODRGIO BELASQUEM

LAYERED was created in memory of Leia — a space built to honour, archive, and uplift trans and non-binary voices. Our print beauty story Hannah Jones Is A Ray of Light brought that intention to life with full force: an uplifting editorial and interview capturing the depth, humour, joy, and tenderness that sit at the centre of those lived experiences.

This year, Hannah Jones's star rose fast. Her first-ever screen role — Sasha in the BBC3 adaptation of What It Feels Like For a Girl — earned her instant acclaim and the unofficial title of scene-stealer in nearly every review. Yet even amid the whirlwind of premieres, press, and praise, she remains grounded in who she is and where she comes from. “If someone tells me I’m not going to do something, I’m going to fucking do it and I’m going to do it well,” she tells us — and truly, she has.

But what makes Hannah’s presence in LAYERED so meaningful isn’t the momentum of her career. It’s her clarity of purpose: her drive to use her platform to tell truthful, working-class, trans stories; to create room for others to feel seen in ways she wasn’t growing up. On set, on screen, in interviews, she educates, challenges, disrupts — not because she’s expected to, but because she understands the power of being visible on her own terms.

We’re proud to share the full Hannah Jones Is A Ray of Light editorial here on F Word Online, giving this story a permanent digital home now that the print issue is nearly gone. To hold one of the last remaining 4 copies in your hands, you can purchase it HERE.

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