Indya Moore Explains Why "Pose" Continues to Be "Revolutionary"
One of Pose’s breakout stars, Indya Moore, graces the latest cover of AnOther Magazine this month, and Indya is opening up about how the Ryan Murphy-produced Netflix series isn’t just popular — it’s an influential force used to educate people about LGBTQ+ history and culture.
The Golden Globe-nominated series has received constant critical acclaim since its premiere last year for not only having a stellar cast of almost entirely transgender actors — an unheard of casting decision for Hollywood — but also for the series’ storylines about how instrumental the Black and Brown queer communities were in establishing LGBTQ+ culture today.
“Pose is revolutionary because it’s giving people an insight [into the] experiences of people they’ve never met before, right on their living-room screens,” Indya told AnOther. “When you see yourself in someone who is not you, you see your experience being represented in a body that is not yours, that looks nothing like you, that is what stimulates empathy. You’re able to empathise with an experience you may not have had any proximity to... People seeing us in the same spaces that they see themselves in ‘un-others’ us.”
Indya goes on to preach the importance of diverse representation in Hollywood and how without it, mainstream culture can’t truly change and adapt to the world that actually exists around it. Since breaking out with the rest of the cast of Pose, Indya has also become the first trans model signed to IMG Modeling Group, started their own production company Beetlefruit Media, and recently used their platform to advocate for the black trans women who are murdered every year.
“We need people to care about us. No one’s ever going to care about us if the only things they know about trans people are [from] Maury and Jerry Springer, if the only thing people know about trans people is fear…,” Indya said. “I think the thing that destroyed our world was apathy, from colonialism to war. Empathy is what’s going to save it.”
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