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" I always was missing that female brown queer perspective, and I think in 'Vida' we have that. A lot of things I wanted to touch on and deal with, I get to do here. "
Tanya Saracho
Think
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Always
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" The big, radical thing that I'm trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings. "
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" The Latinas in this industry are really supportive and stick together. America Ferrera, Gina Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, and Salma Hayek have all reached out and have helped promote 'Vida,' and it's because they get it. They really are about opening doors. The more there are of us, the more of a movement it will be, and it won't be just tokens. "
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" I am equally a writer and an actor and a director. "
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" When I was in school, I didn't get exposed to Latino playwrights. "
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" Sometimes, when I was the only person of color in a room, you had to defend all the people of color everywhere. "
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" I just wanted to put together the best Latinx writers. I didn't care about the level.They have a passion for 'Vida' in a different way, in a higher way. "
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" The fact that I have a show on Starz, it's crazy. It's insane. "
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" I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching. "
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" I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid. "
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Me
" It's mountains. The air is crisp. It's peaceful. You don't get spring break in Guanajuato. "
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Air
" We don't have a lot of narrative on TV or film, mainstream film, of brown queers. Latina queers, I can't think of that many. "
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" I am so homesick every day of the week. "
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I Am
" When I got to Scotland, I signed up on a site called Meetup. It's like these group things you can do - a poetry reading, a hike, whatever. "
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Group
Got
" Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it's worked! It so has. But I am the most boring human on the planet. "
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Human
" I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness. "
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" I had never heard this term before - gente-fication - which is also happening in Portland, Houston; it's happening in a lot of cities. It's upwardly mobile Latinx who want to come back to their neighborhoods where they grew up - or it's Latinx moving to L.A. and looking for a Latinx neighborhood to live or open a business. "
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