Wanna win an Oscar in 2018? Here’s the playbook - write/direct/star in a money-losing film about a young non-white person who happens to be gay/bi/trans/anything other than hetero, struggling to get by in a world filled with contrived and manufactured “hate” from every white person they encounter.
10 months later, you’re standing on the podium for your 15 seconds of fame with a list of people to thank, a platform for your cause du jour, and 98% of Americans watching something else that evening, but everyone on the Island of Misfit Toys applauds you. Congrats.
young, gay, black, Hispanic, transvestite, Muslim woman growing up in an impoverished Miami neighborhood where she got an abortion after being raped by a white conservative Christian KKK member who is running for the Republican party presidential nomination.