14-year-old Girl Meets World star, and everyone’s favorite Insta-activist (riding high alongside Amandla Stenberg, of course), Rowan Blanchard has addressed her feelings on what it means to identify as “queer” in a series of tweets. After writing an enlightening piece for Rookie, titled “Sorry, Not Sorry: How I quit apologizing for existing“, the young actress continued to keep it real by responding to a Twitter user who suggested making Rowan’s Girl Meets World character, Riley, bisexual:
@coffeeshoprowan would really be here for this! if not Riley- its vvv important to me, being queer, that there is representation on our show
— Rowan Blanchard (@rowblanchard) January 16, 2016
and then:
@coffeeshoprowan & being queer to me just means not putting a label on sexuality- just existing
— Rowan Blanchard (@rowblanchard) January 16, 2016
While some Twitter users came back with crude quips like “I knew it,” Rowan set the record straight, replying: “u don’t ‘know’ someone’s sexuality,” and “open to liking any gender in future is why I identify as queer.” Rowan is proof that Generation Z aren’t concerned with existing conventions of gender and sexuality.
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