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" I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid. "
Tanya Saracho
Binary
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Me
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" I get a lot of emails of scripts and pilots, and they want me to give feedback, and sometimes I can't because it's so many. "
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" You can't visit Guanajuato without going to the mummy museum. "
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You
Without
" The big, radical thing that I'm trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings. "
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Big
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Radical
" I feel like progress will be made in the landscape of Latino influence when we get to tell those murky, real, close-to-life narratives. "
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" When 'Vida' got the green light, Starz sent me this picnic basket of Jamie Fraser red wine and all these 'Outlander' things that I'll never open because it's like my sacred thing. "
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Green
" Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who I saw the most. He would always come in at around 10:00 P.M., and I would still be at my desk, so I wrote a play about a first-year TV writer and the friendship that she developed with the janitor. Our stories matter. "
Tanya Saracho
Friendship
Friends
She
" No one guided me through it, but here is how it happened: I was in New York doing a play, and an agent got in touch with me and said he wanted to take me out for lunch. In the theatre, they never want to take you out for lunch, so I thought, 'Yes!' I went, I ordered steak, and he told me he thought I should write for TV. "
Tanya Saracho
Lunch
Me
New York
" I never wanted to be married. That was never a thing for me. "
Tanya Saracho
Me
Never
Married
" 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. "
Tanya Saracho
Back
Moving
Looking
" I went in for a meeting with Marta Fernandez, and she said, 'We are looking for a female millennial show. Have you heard of the term 'chipster'?' And I was like, 'Of course - Chicana hipster.' "
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Show
You
Said
" I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that. "
Tanya Saracho
Will
Poet
Think
" I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness. "
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Darkness
Humor
Interested
" I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes. "
Tanya Saracho
Writing
Always
See
" I remember 'Resurrection Boulevard.' It was on for such a brief moment, but they were trying to do a good, Latino, Mexican-American family with a patriarch. "
Tanya Saracho
Family
Trying
Remember
" Sometimes people of color walk into these spaces that are dominated by the dominant culture, and we have to be better, not make as much trouble. "
Tanya Saracho
Better
Color
Walk
" The hierarchy plays out in the writers room, and you, as a staff writer, need to know your place. "
Tanya Saracho
Place
You
Writer
" I have been watching male programming all my life. And I'm completely interested in it. Like, I love 'Breaking Bad' and I like 'Game of Thrones.' "
Tanya Saracho
Watching
Love
Bad
" I would like to do more millennial, Latina, complicated stories. "
Tanya Saracho
More
Stories
Like
" There is no 'generic' Latina. "
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Generic
Latina
" I'm obsessed with accents. "
Tanya Saracho
Obsessed
Accents
" 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. "
Tanya Saracho
Brown
Latina
Narrative
" You're on set more when you produce an episode, and it's long hours, but you learn so much. "
Tanya Saracho
Long
Much
Hours
" The fact that I have a show on Starz, it's crazy. It's insane. "
Tanya Saracho
Show
Insane
Fact
" In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer, Latinx gaze. "
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Writing
Way
Story
" I'm always in the car in L.A., so I see the people I work with - and, thank God, I adore the people I work with - but it's a little lonely. "
Tanya Saracho
God
Car
Work
" I am so homesick every day of the week. "
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Day
Homesick
I Am
" It's mountains. The air is crisp. It's peaceful. You don't get spring break in Guanajuato. "
Tanya Saracho
You
Mountains
Air
" In TV, you're a 'writer for hire.' That means you're trying to guess what your boss wants and delivering that story. There's a lot of spitballing. The big thing is 'breaking story,' which means coming up with a story. You do it by episode and put it all up on a board. "
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Up
Trying
Story
" Putting on makeup before work is a meditative exercise. It incites me to think about how I'll tackle my day. "
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Exercise
Think
Work
" White, older showrunners told me, 'Why do you want to hire an all-Latinx writers room? Hire who's best for the show - don't get caught up in that.' And I was like, 'No.' For such an intimate show about the details of a culture? You can't fake that. The room needs to reflect the makeup of the show. "
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Best
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