If anyone would like a transcript, I wrote up what was said on the topic below!
“One of the things that’s really important to me about the show is that the gems are all nonbinary women, um, they, they’re-they’re very specific in their coming from a world where the don’t really have the frame of reference, uh, uh, they’re coded female. which is very important, and them being coded female, I was really excited because I felt like I had not seen this - To make a show about a young boy, who is looking up to these female coded characters-
[Interviewer: I’m- I’m sorry, when you say they’re coded female, what do you mean by that - ‘coded’? ]
Uh, they, they appear to be female, uh, they’re a little more representative of nonbinary women, they, they wouldn’t think of themselves as women, um, but they’re fine with being interpreted that way, amongst humans, um and I am also a nonbinary woman, which is- it’s been really great to express myself through these characters because it’s very much how I have felt, throughout my life.
[Interviewer: I do want to talk more about that as we continue but is that a challenging thing to relate to kids? I mean is that something that they actually say in the show or is that just something that’s implied in the background?]
Uh, I think it has everything to do with the way that the characters act and relate to each other, um, I think that, Stevonnie is very clearly a nonbinary character, uh, I think that’s something that everyone in the audience can understand, with the gems it- it may be subtler, but it’s definitely part of - a huge part of who they are.”
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