#kiley may

[yourdailyqueer]

Kiley May

Gender: Two Spirit (she/they)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: Born 1986

Ethnicity: First Nation (Mohawk, Cayuga)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Writer, screenwriter, producer, director, actor, activist

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Coroner  -  CBC  -  January 7, 2019 - Present

Crime Drama (16 episodes to date)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Serinda Swan as Jenny Cooper

Roger Cross as Det. Donovan “Mac” McAvoy

Alli Chung as Det. Taylor Kim (season 1)

Eric Bruneau as Liam Bouchard

Ehren Kassam as Ross Kalighi

Tamara Podemski as Alison Trent

Lovell Adams-Gray as Dr. Dwayne Allen (season 1; guest season 2)

Saad Siddiqui as Dr. Neil Sharma

Andy McQueen as Det. Malik Abed

Kiley May as River Baitz (season 2; recurring season 1)

Nicola Correia-Damude as Kelly Hart (season 2)

Olunike Adeliyi as Noor Armias (season 2)

Recurring:

Nicholas Campbell as Gordon Cooper

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[confessionsofabingefreak]

Coroner, Season 1

CBC

Impression: fantastic casting.... that is about it... not worth it and not watching further seasons.

Overall: ⭐️⭐️

Concept: ⭐️⭐️1/2

Story: ⭐️1/2

Storytelling: ⭐️⭐️

Characters: ⭐️⭐️⭐️(ish)

Casting: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Visually: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Score/Soundtrack: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Entertainment: ⭐️1/2

Best: casting

Worst: never come to care for the characters or overall story.

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Kiley May 

[heartdashbeats]

"I call myself the beauty from the bush, because those are my roots. Rez Girl for life."

Kiley May in her own words at Heart-beats.ca

photos by vivekshraya

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"I know that we LGBTQ2S folks are not new, we are ancient, we’ve been around as long as humans have existed, but I liked the idea that we are highly developed and we leap humanity forward."

More with the amazing Kiley May on Heart-beats.ca

Photos by vivekshraya

[scabi0sa]

I mean there’s washrooms for sure, those are the immediate - first barriers that I think of when I experience barriers. So, I now work with people to help gender neutral bathrooms. Like, for instance on my campus at Ryerson University I’m working with people to create gender neutral washrooms. In terms of barriers in social spaces, institutional spaces one thing in my experience in being Mohawk - I’m aboriginal - and we have ceremonies. Ceremonies that we do and I learned...I mean I knew before but it became very apparent to me that our ceremonies were very gendered - male and female - and there are some ceremonial spaces where only men can go and some ceremonial spaces where only women can go. But having discovered the two- spirit identity, which for me is sort of like an androgynous, transgender, genderqueer identity (that’s my interpretation of it). But being two-spirit and being in this middle place I’m advocating now and trying to teach people that it’s not adequate and it’s not accessible for all people to only have male and female spaces. I’m taking the experiences where I meet barriers and challenges and I just... if I meet a brick wall, I realize I just have to I just bust a hole down. Like if there’s no door for me to walk through or there’s no window for me to crawl through, I’ll take a sledgehammer and just bust a whole in the wall and create my own space *laughs*.

- Kiley May RE: Q: Have you faced any barriers while presenting yourself in a feminine way?