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\nRiver Gallo is a really interesting newcomer, holding a unique space as an intersex actor\/writer\/director and activist. Their background – working-class New Jersey – suffuses Ponyboi<\/i>, the feature length film they wrote and starred in (Gallo made it as a short back in 2019). I’ve talked a lot about the lack of working-class perspective in film and television: plenty of stuff takes PLACE in the working-class world but often you can feel the middle-class presumptions\/preconceived notions\/condescension of the creators. It’s too early to say “Gallo’s work is different” – and of course their position as openly intersex is probably the most noteworthy – but, for me, Ponyboi<\/i>, with all its cliches, feels authentically FROM a very specific world – and it’s because Gallo is really FROM that world. Anyway. Here’s my review<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" River Gallo is a really interesting newcomer, holding a unique space as an intersex actor\/writer\/director and activist. Their background – working-class New Jersey – suffuses Ponyboi, the feature length film they wrote and starred in (Gallo made it as a … Continue reading