On the flip side of that coin, though, it’s been Black women in the entertainment business who’ve said the most injurious things to her about queerness, with no regard for her sexuality. For reasons Ellis can’t quite put her finger on, people fail to recognize she’s part of the LGBTQ community.
“There is an assumption made of me — a presumption made of me. Is it because I’m a Black woman from Mississippi? Is it because I’m older?” she muses. “I don’t know what the mechanics are that goes into them not processing, or them not just being able to believe that in the same way I am Black, I am queer. This is who I am.”
Best Actor in a dramatic series (Timothy Olyphant) and Best Actress is a dramatic series (Aunjanue Ellis) Critics Choice Awards nominations 😍 for Justified City Primeval
Congratulations 🍾🎉 it was well earned and deserved!