Kiley May

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Kiley May
Born1986or1987(age 38–39)
Alma mater Ryerson University
Occupation(s)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]

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Life

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, 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

Notes

  1. ↑ May uses she/her and they/them pronouns. This article uses feminine pronouns for consistency.

References

  1. 1 2 Hensley, Laura (June 7, 2018). "What Does It Mean to Identify as Two-Spirit?". FLARE . Archived from the original on June 8, 2021. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bruno, Natasha (August 25, 2020). "Emerging Filmmaker Kiley May Talks Trans Representation in Media". FASHION Magazine . Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  3. ↑ "They: Interview with Kiley May". Emergence Media. Retrieved May 26, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Proud to Shine: 40 Years of Pride in the city". CBC.ca . June 11, 2021. Retrieved November 20, 2024.
  5. 1 2 3 "Kiley May, Toronto Pride's youth ambassador, on the journey to define her 'kaleidoscope identity'". Canadian Broadcasting Centre . June 22, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  6. 1 2 McCormick, Nicole (June 23, 2020). "'No limitations': Indigenous transgender storyteller Kiley May shapes her life as a kaleidoscope". CityNews Toronto . Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  7. ↑ Viola, Joey (September 20, 2019). "EXCLUSIVE: Toronto-based, Indigenous Trans actress Kiley May on her first major movie role in "IT: Chapter Two"". TheBUZZ Magazine. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
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