When I was out door-knocking during the campaign, I would actually tell people that I am trans, because it felt important to me that folks understand the fullness of my lived experience and my perspective, and I was 100% of the time met with love and support. And these were folks who didn’t know me already, these weren’t folks who I already had previous relationships with. These were strangers.”Danica Roem: but I honestly don’t know what his views were. In the years when I could have asked my grandmother and other older relatives while they were still alive, I’m not sure I would have questioned their premise that white people who committed acts of violence did it for reasons of justice, that they were “heroes” rather than colonizers. There is a quote, “You can’t be what you can’t see.” For the longest time, my friends would ask me, “Do you ever want to direct?” I was like, “Direct? No!” I’m realizing now that I was living in this very narrow world of thinking of movies as being directed only by guys. Nobody had ever taught me about Robin and Steve on "Stranger Things" Is the Queer-Straight Friendship We Need Right NowDo Better