Academy Award winner Patricia Arquette has expressed her anger at the exclusion of her sister Alexis from the In Memoriam section at this year’s Oscars. Alexis, who passed away this past September at the age of 47, has over 70 stage and screen credits on her acting CV and was also an activist for other trans actors and performers. Arquette stated,
“I was really p—–d off the Academy left out my sister Alexis in the Memoriam, because Alexis had a great body of work, but Alexis was one of very few trans artists that worked in the business. At a time when we have trans kids that can’t even go to the bathroom at school, you would think the Academy would have a little bit more respect for a group of people that are murdered, and trans women of color are most likely to live in extreme poverty, making $800 a month.”
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