Fostering Change
After five seasons and a three-hour finale, Freeform’s (formerly ABC Family) The Fosters, the series from out creators and showrunners Peter Paige, Bradley Bredeweg, and Joanna Johnson about lesbian moms raising biological, adopted, and foster kids will go down as one of the most consistently groundbreaking series in TV history.
The show explored the importance of marriage equality; tackled racism; featured one of TV’s first transgender characters played by a trans man; and covered rape, school shootings, immigration and ICE, sex trafficking, breast cancer, and the multitude of issues is ending its run, the characters will live on in the spin-off starring Maia Mitchell and Cierra Ramirez, which will focus on Callie’s and Mariana’s post-college life in Los Angeles.
