Growing up, Jill Soloway had a hard time relating to women as they were portrayed on TV. Soloway would watch The Love Boat or Fantasy Island and feel uncomfortable with the version of femininity the shows put forth.
“In fact, all the way up through watching Sex and the City, I would feel incredibly upset by what I thought was an expectation of me,” Soloway says. “[It] was, ‘You should really love cute shoes,’ and, ‘Because you’re a woman, you’re going to go crazy for a particular dress.’ ”
Soloway — who identifies as genderqueer and prefers the gender neutral pronouns they/them/their— created the Amazon series Transparent based on their own experience as the child of a transgender woman. Now they have a new Amazon series called I Love Dick.
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