![]() ![]() I feel like there are a lot of people in this world today who are being rejected by their families. I wanted to have a character who was just awesome and also a black trans woman, and I wanted her to be really smart and savvy and just really cool. So I feel like having not just a trans character, but a black trans character, and a black woman trans character, was important to me because sometimes people lose sight of the intersections between all these different facets of someone’s existence - you have a feeling of tokenism.but there’s a lot of black trans women out there who want to see themselves in fiction too. ![]() And I didn’t want to include that, but I did want to include trans characters, and I also wanted a pretty diverse cast in other ways. ![]() There’s a tendency to show they’re trans by doing some sort of undressing scene or awkward confrontation of transmisogyny or something like that. But I have a lot of trans friends, and I feel like so often, narratives that do include trans characters somehow involve their pain. Pink’s definitely not the main character in the story, because I’m not trans and it’s not my story to tell. What was your process for developing Pink? ![]()
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