Daniela Sea grew up in Malibu, California. Her parents were both hippie intellectuals. When she was a child, her father came out as gay. Her stepfather taught her to surf and moved the family to Hawaii so they could enjoy better surfing. Daniela left home at age 16 to join the punk/feminist/artist space Gilman Street Project in San Francisco. She learned improve acting and was in several punk rock bands.

Sea traveled all over Europe and Asia. She hitchhiked through Turkey, did some street theatre, and performed as a fire juggler with a traveling circus in Poland. As a punk rocker, she and her band cross-dressed. At one point in her world travels, she lived in India for eight months as a man.



“It evolved quickly when I realized what freedom I'd have. As a man, I could ask questions and walk around at night. I felt it would give me better access to the culture. I don't feel anyone suspected anything. I never felt threatened, like I do here. If I want to, people think I'm a boy. I'm a tomboy. I always wear boys' clothes. I don't have to try very hard one way or the other.”

She said about her sexuality:

“But I…don't believe that gender is just binary, and I never have, so that's what pulls me to sometimes politically identify as a lesbian, because I'm a feminist, and I feel like women are still so suppressed. I don't feel like we've come that far. But I also feel like there are people all along the spectrum, so in that sense, I feel like I would be more bisexual or just, you know, open-ended."


# On making out with Mia Kirshner (Jenny), "When I first started, I felt a little, I won't say shy, but it's really revealing in a certain way. But it's acting, so it's not like somebody watching you making out with somebody you love, because you're not you and they're not them; you're both characters. I guess I really liked it; it was fun." (AfterEllen.com)
# On whether she identifies as a lesbian: "I mean, I definitely have only had significant relationships since I was 19 with women. And politically I'm definitely a lesbian, or a dyke, or on the queer spectrum...But I don't believe that gender is just binary, and I never have, so that's what pulls me to sometimes politically identify as a lesbian, because I'm a feminist, and I feel like women are still so suppressed. I don't feel like we've come that far. But I also feel like there are people all along the spectrum, so in that sense, I feel like I would be more bisexual or just, you know, open-ended." (AfterEllen)
# On living as a man in India, "It wasn't something I planned. It evolved quickly when i realized what freedom I'd have. As a man, I could ask questions and walk around at night. I felt it would give me better access to the culture." (Philadelphia Inquirer)
# On hitchhiking through Europe: "I had no money for years...It made me have more faith in people and feel like I belonged in the world, actually, and made me feel proud to be part of the world instead of like when I was younger [and was] this rebellious punk rocker who never felt like I belonged anywhere." (Curve magazine)
# What kind of woman does Daniela like? "For me, the sexiest kind of woman is a really outspoken, liberated, feminist woman. " (Curve magazine)
# On being an out Lesbian: "I'm really proud of [us] as a people—lesbians or queer people or whatever—and sometimes I think it's easy in this world to feel like we have something to be ashamed of, [that] what we do isn't as good, or it's not adequate compared to the rest of the bigger picture." (After Ellen)

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