"Why Spanish? For one, she lives in California, surrounded by native Spanish speakers. "I feel like a total dumb American," she says, flashing a pearly Hollywood smile. Then there's reason two: "Ummmmm, I was just thinking about where I would wanna live if I had to flee the country." Another laugh, at the absurdity. "I'm like, Spain! Spain will work.""
"At 54, Candis Cayne has been a US resident for her entire life, having been born in Maui, Hawaii, moving to LA, then New York, LA again. But with Trump back in the White House, his views on trans rights ever more vociferous, a future in her own home feels less and less tenable. "We know a lot of dictators and horrible people in the past started their reign of terror by othering immigrants and othering queer people, so it is scary," she says."
Candis Cayne, 54, recently began learning Spanish and often practices in her California home. She lives amid native Spanish speakers and jokes about moving to Spain if forced to flee the United States. Cayne expresses growing fear about trans rights under the Trump administration and warns that othering immigrants and queer people precedes authoritarianism. She remains in progressive California to aid others but considers the difficulty of fighting from abroad if exile becomes necessary. Cayne plays Penny in the sapphic fantasy film Witchy Ways, a confidant to protagonist Eve as she falls for a fey witch named Danni.
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