vital art form for LGBTQ teens and communities of color in so many different ways, and I know that by the time I made the decision to just fold it instead, I definitely knew it was the right decision. I think I felt kind of duped, or like there should have been a way to know that was the right decision almost as soon as things had become challenging? I was sort of like, I just wasted all this time trying to make it work. Now, looking back, it’s abundantly clear to me that I had to go through that whole process, trying to fundraise, trying to sell it, trying to find a partner — all of these different things. As sad as I still am that it couldn’t live on in that form, the decision to fold it when I did has been affirmed over and over. I’ve also been able to feel gratitude for the process it took to reach that decision. It’s just so clear now that I couldn’t have come to that decision any other way. I really needed to exhaust those other efforts. We can’t wait to see more revelations of what’s in store. And just so you can mark it on your calendar if you haven’t already done so,A Year in the Lifeis coming to Netflix on Nov. 25.Related: These protests spreading from the U.S. to the U.K. tap into another part of our history as Brits: theLondon riots of 2011which were sparked bythe death of Mark Duggan