Adena El Amin

Adena is a photographer whose work on female sexuality and queerness gets pulled from an exhibit at Scarlet, the magazine where Kat Edison works. Confident and unbothered by controversy, she is direct about her art, her identity as a queer Muslim woman, and what she wants from the people around her.

Nikohl Boosheri plays her with an ease that never tips into smugness — she's sure of herself without performing certainty for the camera. Adena refuses to be a symbol or a lesson; she flirts, argues, and makes art on her own terms, which lets her relationship with Kat unfold as two specific people rather than an issue being illustrated.