"It feels like a rallying cry. It's queer, working class and has colour and sexiness and anarchy."
"It's mad our small BBC Three show is getting this validation, it feels so affirming,"
"I'm so aware I'm a cis boy, taking up space here"
"[What] I would love people to take away from the show is that we really need people to show up, especially cis people, for our trans siblings in what feels like a real uphill fight in this precarious political moment we are in."
Ellis Howard earned BAFTA Breakthrough recognition for his role in What It Feels Like For A Girl, a BBC drama scripted by a trans woman and anchored in LGBTQ+ voices. The series, adapted from Paris Lees' memoir, follows 15-year-old Byron's gender and sexuality discovery in a small working-class town, forming bonds with kindred spirits and facing upheaval after being seduced by Liam. The production foregrounds queer, working-class, and people-of-colour perspectives and continues to resonate months after airing. Howard describes the recognition as affirming, acknowledges his cisgender privilege, and urges cis allies to show up for trans siblings amid a precarious political moment.
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