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. Her mother is Mohawk and her father is Cayuga, and she belongs to the Turtle Clan.

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