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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
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There is no 'generic' Latina.
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I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness.
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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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I am so homesick every day of the week.
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I hope to see more Latino stories on television - not just on a personal level, but for us in the industry. We shouldn't just exist when a show is attempting to be diverse. We have good stories, and we are worth it.
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Young men and women of color get told 'no' by so many people. But just listen to your inner voice. Amplify it. Make it strong!
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The big, radical thing that I'm trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings.
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I always was missing that female brown queer perspective, and I think in 'Vida' we have that. A lot of things I wanted to touch on and deal with, I get to do here.
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When you get a bunch of Latinxs together, we get to handle our stories. A cultural shorthand happens.
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I have 16 plays, and we don't ever do subtitles. You can't do subtitles in the theater, so I was like, 'I'm not gonna do subtitles.' You'll never lose the story. There might be a little joke that you might miss, but you'll never miss the story, even in the Spanglish of it.
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I would like to do more millennial, Latina, complicated stories.
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