Kat Edison: Last News

The stories of Jane Sloan, Kat Edison and Sutton Brady will soon come to a close as Freeform’s The Bold Type nears its series finale. Before the final chapters, stars Katie Stevens, Aisha Dee and Meghann Fahy reunited to reflect on their on-screen and off-screen journeys for ATX Television Festival.

The Bold Type is a show about three ambitious young women who become best friends when they meet at Scarlet, the women’s magazine where they all work. The friends – who spend more time gossiping in the fashion cupboard or dashing off to drag nights than they do at their desks – are Jane Sloan (the serious writer), Sutton Brady (the fashion assistant) and Kat Edison (the social-media one). The show is soapy.

If the lives of Jane Sloan, Sutton Brady and Kat Edison have become your new obsession then we are with you. After The Bold Type was added to Netflix’s repertoire it’s become perfect binge watching material.

They are the millennial trio of hit Netflix series The Bold Type. And Jane Sloan (Katie Stevens), Sutton Brady (Meghann Fahy) and Kat Edison (Aisha Dee) are the rising stars of fictional women’s magazine Scarlet.The American comedy-drama is inspired by the life of former Cosmopolitan editor Joanna Coles, who is executive producer of the series, and follows the lives of the three friends.

Aisha Dee is speaking out and calling for change when it comes to what she sees as a lack of diversity on her show “The Bold Type”. The actress took to Instagram Wednesday night where she shared a lengthy message detailing her concerns with everything from representation in the writer’s room to her own character’s development and story lines.

“The Bold Type” actress Aisha Dee called out Freeform on Instagram on Wednesday for what she said is a lack of diversity behind the camera for the series. Dee, 26, portrays the queer and bi-racial character Kat Edison.

Aisha Dee, one of the three main characters on The Bold Type, shared a powerful statement via Instagram on Wednesday, July 15, one day before the season 4 finale.“Knowing the power that art had to shape my mind and experience, I had to speak up,” Dee, 26, wrote in a lengthy statement before explaining that playing Kat Edison on the Freeform drama was the first time she was able to not just play “the white character’s ‘best friend,'” but instead an “empowered and confident” woman with her own narrative, who explored her queer identity.“Kat Edison: unapologetic, outspoken, brave, the woman I always wished I could be,” the Nowhere Inn star wrote, noting that she is “proud” to be part of a show that pushes boundaries.

Aisha Dee has won over fans for four seasons, in her portrayal of Kat Edison on Freeform's The Bold Type.And the Australian actress recently got real about some of her experiences on the show, ahead of this week's season four finale.She penned a lengthy heartfelt letter Wednesday, posting to Instagram about the lack of diversity on the show, as well as in Hollywood in general.

Aisha Dee is speaking out and calling for change when it comes to what she sees as a lack of diversity on her show. The actress took to Instagram Wednesday night where she shared a lengthy message detailing her concerns with everything from representation in the writer's room to her own character's development and story lines.Dee, 26, plays Kat Edison on the Freeform dramedy, an editor for.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThe Bold Type actress Aisha Dee took to Instagram to give her thoughtful, yet unfiltered take on the lack of diversity on the Freeform show. Even though Freeform is known for being inclusive with their programming, Dee called out blind spots that the show has failed to recognize when it came to hiring people of color, LGBTQ people and women behind the camera.Dee plays Kat Edison on the series who is queer.

Aisha Dee is calling for more diversity behind-the-scenes of her show The Bold Type.

Aisha Dee is calling for more diversity behind-the-scenes of her show The Bold Type.

The Bold Type is best known for its progressive storylines and advocacy for diversity and inclusion, but talking the talk and walking the walk are two different things. Aisha Dee, who plays Kat Edison on the series, is speaking out about the lack of diversity behind the scenes on the show in an effort to make Freeform live up to its messaging. Dee posted her thoughts about the lack of inclusion on The Bold Type to Instagram Wednesday evening, calling for Freeform and The Bold Type to do better. "It took two seasons to get a single BIPOC in the writer's room for The Bold Type. And even then, the responsibility to speak for the entire Black experience cannot and should not fall on one person," Dee wrote.

Janet W. Lee “The Bold Type” star Aisha Dee took to Instagram on Wednesday to call out the lack of diversity behind the scenes of the Freeform series.In her post, she reflects on growing up in a primarily white, conservative area in Australia and how playing her character Kat Edison “pushed [her] to be better” personally and professionally.“For the first time in my career, I got to play a character who was centered in her own narrative,” Dee wrote.

The Bold Type, like many viewers, I was eager to see what came next for magazine social media guru turned budding activist, Kat Edison. Over the course of three and a half seasons, Kat explored what it meant to be biracial, to be bisexual, and gained a grasp on what political activism meant to her.