Are we ready for the final season of ‘Orange Is The New Black’?
It's the end of an era at Netflix: Orange Is the New Black, one of the streaming platform's first original programs, premieres its seventh and last season on July 26. Based on the memoir of Piper Kerman's short stint in prison, OITNB is one of the most-watched original programs ever on the platform, and has helped jump-start the careers of actresses like Laverne Cox, Danielle Brooks, and Samira Wiley—NYLON's June cover star.
But in real life, Preston points out that for Black trans women,"there's always a demonizing narrative that's attached to us already. Even in 2019, there's been 11 trans women who have been murdered, and they've all been Black." Preston's media work attempts to go directly against this, underlining the"heart" of Black trans women.
Upon retiring, she moved out to the Hamptons with her partner and bought a home. If she had to do it all over, May says"there are a lot of things I wouldn't do," but she still considers herself"one of the luckiest kids on the face of the earth." Get to know May in the video, above. Check out the other videos in our series where we placed queer people from different generations in conversation with one another:Ashlee Marie Preston and Devan DiazEdited by Gretta Wilson
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