INDYA MOORE AS ANGEL EVANGELISTA

was something different for me because it told a story about family and love and humanity through the lens of queer and trans people, during a time when queer and trans people were struggling to find ground in this world. captured that during a time when we were all moving into self-actualization, where we realized we get to be visible and dream and build careers too. With this show, Hollywood opened up and can now see us less as the identities we hold and more as the talent that we bring. I hope that it continues in a direction where the only people who are benefiting from this shift aren’t just trans people who are cis-assumed and that we’re also uplifting people who come in trans bodies that aren’t only thin or light-skinned. We need to hear and see more darker Black trans women, and also trans folks who are bigger and fat-identifying. There’s so much work to do, and I have a lot of hope in the ways that people of privilege are revisiting how they contribute to these systems by ignoring us and not including us and breaking up the pattern of how they choose to see us.