Don’t Miss the Next New Episode of “The Q Agenda”

Today, on The Q Agenda, we will be exploring varied shades of nuance.

Actor Tonatiuh tells our hosts about his recent humanitarian trip to the US-México border. Multi-hyphenate filmmaker Marisa Milroy reflects on her start in entertainment and how she trail-blazed her way into the industry. And, singer and psychic-medium Kelsi Davies recounts how she discovered both her mystical gifts and her pansexuality.

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Last seen on ABC’s Promise Land, Tonatiuh has been forging his way through Hollywood’s acting landscape for a while. And very recently, Elsa Marie Collins — head of community organization This Is About Humanity — was organizing a queer-centric trip down to the border and wanted him to help.

Tonatiuh — openly queer, with family roots in Mexico — was not surprised to find that homophobia and transphobia is as present at the border as it is across the United States (and the world, really).

“My heart was both broken and awakened. We heard some of their stories, and they were quite tragic,” Tonatiuh says on the show. “But what got me was the resiliency of these folks. They may have fled because of fear, but what kept them going was fate, hope, joy, and the opportunity to create a life they want for themselves.”

The trip is meant to be an educational experience for the volunteers. But, Tonatiuh also wanted to celebrate the queer, migrant joy that exists there, even amidst not-so-joyous circumstances. So, they threw a party for the queer community in the shelters. They got everyone glammed up and brought in a photographer to make it official.

If migrating and seeking asylum wasn’t difficult enough, being queer or trans adds another layer of obstacles and requires that much more bravery.

“To be able to celebrate with them and extend some of our privileges from over here on this side of the border was wonderful,” Tonatiuh goes on to say.

Let Tonatiuh’s experience inspire us to make time to give back and bridge community, whatever that looks like to you.

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Next on the show is film multi-hyphenate Marisa Milroy, who didn’t know anyone when she moved to Los Angeles at 17-year-old — a sole duffel bag in-hand.

Originally from Alberta, Canada, growing up she didn’t always see the characters that reflected her experience on camera. But, after she saw the film, The Butterfly Effect, she knew she wanted to make movies, and she let that dream guide her.

 “You make the opportunity for yourself,” she says. “You trailblaze and don’t let anyone tell you no.”

Since her start in Los Angeles, she also made it clear to everyone that she wanted to make films. And, sure enough, fruitful conversations led her down fruitful paths.

In film school, while studying screenwriting, she started producing. After she graduated, she delved into the craft of acting. Through the years, learning how to tell stories from different angles, from varied positions on set, she clarified her own creative vision and developed a broader understanding for all the roles at play.

“I think that film and television and any media is so important in representing people and what we see and how we see them,” she goes on to say. “In terms of my approach towards the LGBTQ+ community and characters, I write from my experience and that’s the only thing I can write from.”

As Milroy trailblazes onward, she strives to uplift voices that are often left without microphones, on and off camera.

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Kelsi Davies, also featured on this episode, is a woman of many talents. She’s a signer, a social media personality, and also a psychic-medium.

“I thought it was normal growing up, so I didn’t think of myself as a psychic-medium. You’re not really taught that,” Davies says on the show.

As a kid, she would have premonitions and intense experiences in her dreams. She’d see people and the shadows of those who had already passed away. She wasn’t sure if anyone else also had these capabilities, so she kept it to herself — that is, until she found community on social media.

There, not only did she come to terms with her gifts, she also figured out how to hone them. Some people don’t believe her. Some people call her crazy. But, in accepting herself and letting her gifts give her confidence, she’s come in to her unique power.

“Ever since I was young, I always saw people differently,” she goes on to say. “I would always see people at a depth that other people didn’t. I would see people for their energy, their aura, what they gave me — and I never saw a gender.”

In a way, she is gender-blind, and that’s how she approaches her relationships.

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Don’t miss these exclusive conversations with Tonatiuh, Marisa Milroy, and Kelsi Davies, (and more), all on the next episode of LATV’s The Q Agenda.