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• ‟ My mother has always rooted for the underdog, so to speak. She has always been in support of uplifting historically marginalized and historically disenfranchised people.

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• ‟ Labels can be really helpful when we have the autonomy to label ourselves. But when other people label us without our permission, that's when it becomes dangerous.

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• ‟ I think one of the biggest misconceptions is that only gender non-conforming, non-binary, or trans people have a gender identity. But the truth is, everyone has a gender identity.

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• ‟ Non-binary is a term used by some people, myself included, who feel that their gender identity falls outside the tradition boxes of man or woman.

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• ‟ What I learned through my research is that the word 'actor,' specifically in reference to those who performed in plays, came about in the late 1500s as a non-gendered word. It applied to all people, regardless of anatomical sex or gender identity.

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• ‟ Because I was assigned female at birth and I am light-skinned, white, I think people hear my message more than they hear it from someone who was assigned male at birth and is a person of colour.

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• ‟ The work that I engage with, whether it's self-generated or collaborative, is uplifting and supporting historically marginalized and disenfranchised people, because when I uplift up those groups, I'm uplifting myself and supporting myself - it works out in that way.

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• ‟ I find that, often, when I tell people what pronoun I use, I don't get a lot of backlash. I'm really lucky in that respect.

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• ‟ Creating more characters that represent historically marginalized and historically disenfranchised people in television and film is certainly important.

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• ‟ Some people's gender identity conforms to the sex they were assigned at birth, and some people's identity doesn't. That realization was certainly very freeing for me - and could be very freeing for other people.

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• ‟ I think that it's important to say that trans people exist, and we are valid, whether we choose to transition or not. It's really up to anyone to decide what is going to make them feel the most like themselves.

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• ‟ I'm really interested in going back in to the history of non-binary people and seeing how many people in history were non-binary but that didn't know it themselves or because we didn't have the language, couldn't talk about it. I know how that felt being a young person not having that language.

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• ‟ There is still so much acceptance, representation and visibility needed for trans women of color and gender non-conforming people of color.

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• ‟ We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their sex.

  - Asia Kate Dillon