CECILIA GENTILI is a storyteller and actress. Originally from Argentina, Gentili came to the United States to pursue a safer life as a transgender woman. She lived undocumented for 10 years, hustling and doing sex work, which came with drug use. After surviving arrests and an immigration detention, she accessed recovery services and won asylum. She subsequently served as director of policy at GMHC and founded Transgender Equity Consulting, which works to ensure all people living on the margins receive dignity and respect. Gentili has appeared in FX’s Pose and in her own one-woman show, The Knife Cuts Both Ways. Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist (LittlePuss Press) is her first book.