Kiley May facts for kids

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

Life

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

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. 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.

In 2017, May was the Youth Ambassador for Pride Toronto. .....

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

Roles

• Coroner, as River Baitz, ongoing
• It Chapter Two as Native American woman (from the fictitious “Shokopiwah” tribe)
• The D Cut