Kiley May
Kiley May | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1986 or 1987 (age 39–40) |
| Alma mater | Ryerson University |
| Occupations | Storyteller, actor, filmmaker, two-spirit activist |
Kiley May (born 1986/1987) is a Mohawk and Cayuga storyteller,[1] actor, screenwriter, filmmaker,[2] and two-spirit activist in Toronto.[1]
Life
[edit | edit source]As a child, May lived at Six Nations of the Grand River, an Indian reserve in Ontario.[2] Her mother is Mohawk and her father is Cayuga,[3] and she belongs to the Turtle Clan.[4]
She[a] was assigned male at birth, but was feminine as a child.[5] She experienced discrimination as a result of transphobia and homophobia.[2]
In 2007, May left the reserve and moved to Toronto, where she attended journalism school at Ryerson University. While in school, she discovered a love for creative writing, but after graduating she did not write for several years.[2] May initially identified as genderqueer and gender non-conforming, and eventually started to use she pronouns; as of June 2017[update], at age 30, she was using both she/her and they/them pronouns.[5]
In 2017, May was the Youth Ambassador for Pride Toronto. She was additionally crowdfunding to pay for travel to Montreal for genital surgery.[5]
In 2020, May was a winner of the Magee TV Diverse Screenwriters Award from the Toronto Screenwriting Conference.[6]
Roles
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- Coroner,[2] as River Baitz, ongoing[citation needed]
- It Chapter Two[2] as Native American woman (from the fictitious “Shokopiwah” tribe[7])
- The D Cut[6]
Notes
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External links
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- 1980s births
- 21st-century Canadian actors
- 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
- 21st-century Canadian screenwriters
- Canadian LGBTQ screenwriters
- Canadian Mohawk actors
- Canadian non-binary actors
- Canadian non-binary writers
- Canadian transgender actors
- Canadian transgender writers
- Cayuga people
- First Nations LGBTQ people
- Living people
- Non-binary activists
- Non-binary screenwriters
- Six Nations of the Grand River people
- Transgender non-binary people
- Transgender screenwriters
- Turtle Clan of the Iroquois
- Two-spirit people
- LGBTQ rights activist stubs
- Canadian screen actor, 1980s birth stubs