Kiley May (born 1986/1987) is a Mohawk and Cayuga storyteller,[1] actor, screenwriter, filmmaker,[2] and two-spirit activist in Toronto.[1]

Life

As a child, May lived at Six Nations of the Grand River, an Indian reserve in Ontario.[2] She[lower-alpha 1] was assigned male at birth, but was feminine as a child.[3] She experienced discrimination as a result of transphobia and homophobia.[2]

In 2007, May left the reserve and moved to Toronto, where she attended journalism school at Ryerson University. While in school, she discovered a love for creative writing, but after graduating she didn't write for several years.[2] May initially identified as genderqueer and gender non-conforming, and eventually started to use she pronouns; as of June 2017^[update], at age 30, she was using both she/her and they/them pronouns.[3]

In 2017, May was the Youth Ambassador for Pride Toronto. She was additionally crowdfunding to pay for travel to Montreal for genital surgery.[3]

In 2020, May was a winner of the Magee TV Diverse Screenwriters Award from the Toronto Screenwriting Conference.[4]

Roles

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• Coroner,[2] as River Baitz, ongoing^{[citation needed]}
• It Chapter Two[2] as Native American woman (from the fictitious “Shokopiwah” tribe[5])
• The D Cut[4]

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