Not many people can say that they have interacted with Charli XCX. Even fewer people can say that the British pop powerhouse may have seen their genitalia. I moved to London as a twenty year-old wide-eyed queer boy who dreamed of taking the city by storm. New and friendless in the Big Smoke, I downloaded Tinder and got to work.

One of the most important things we can do as up-and-coming twenty-somethings is to take risks and force ourselves into a variety of opportunities. The “fake it ‘til you make it” attitude is gaining traction amongst the Generation Z community–for good reason.