"When I signed on to the show, I didn't know whether I'd be playing both girls," says Nina, who tends to identify with Elena but has more fun with Katherine. "And while it's been cool, it's also exhausting because it's double the work. You invest so much of your heart and soul and energy into making even one character. It's like doing two movies at once." How does this latest move fit into the kind of reactionary transphobic politicscommon across the pondfrom your perspective?AV: In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped” in the Catskills, exploded those confines. Jened was their freewheeling Utopia, a place with summertime sports, smoking and makeout sessions awaiting everyone, and campers felt fulfilled as human beings. Their bonds endured as they migrated West to Berkeley, California — a promised land for a growing and diverse disability community — where friends from Camp Jened realized that disruption and unity might secure life-changing accessibility for millions. Even though my ancestors are indigenous, I'm still trying to understand if I can play an indigenous person. But I definitely want to play someone that is indigenous, to tell a story with my body as a gender-variant person. I want to be able to tell a story of someone who existed precolonially. I think that is going to do a lot of work in the communities trans people come from, like black trans women, for example. I think that'll help do a lot of work in how black people see the belonging of trans people because so many black trans women are killed by black people.