Amandla Stenberg covers the latest issue of Teen Vogue. Teen Vogue loves Amandla, and they’ve had her on the cover before. Last year, she used to her Teen Vogue interview to come out as bisexual. She was only 17 at the time! While she made a name for herself by talking about cornrows and Kylie Jenner, she’s an actress and she’s currently promoting her new film Everything, Everything, a story written by a black woman and a film directed by a black woman. You can read Amandla’s Teen Vogue profile here, and here are some highlights:

Whether she’s okay with using she/her pronouns: “I have felt at times that she/her pronouns weren’t entirely fitting, but I’ve never felt uncomfortable with them. It’s more important for me to open up that conversation around pronouns and how gender itself is a construct that doesn’t make much sense in our society.”

Where she was during the election: “I was shooting a scene in Where Hands Touch, a film about a biracial girl growing up during the Holocaust. In the scene, my character’s papers get taken away by a Nazi officer and the officer yells in her face, basically telling her that she does not belong in her own country. An actor playing a Nazi soldier took out his phone to refresh the news and announced that Trump was president. I was actually seeing this come out of the mouth out of an actor dressed in a Nazi uniform. Immediately, I excused myself because I felt like I couldn’t breathe anymore. I started sobbing. It was shocking. It made me really question how we could reach a point where our country is so divided. The director, Amma Asante, came to check on me, and she told me that progress is like a coil you have to go down in order to circle back up again. That’s how it’s worked throughout history. That’s how it will continue to work.

She’s all about protecting her own mental health: “Amid all of the chaos in the world right now, it’s so important that everyone actively works to preserve their mental health so that we’re able to heal and create change. I got rid of my iPhone, and that was essential in preserving my mental health. Now I have a flip phone that I just use to talk to people and hear their actual voices. I’m worried about the mental health effects of smartphones and social media on kids because it is one large social experiment that we don’t know the outcome of. I see a lot of people around my age who are really unhappy or experiencing disconnection from reality because they base so much of their existence on the Internet and on their interactions with people they might not even know. It creates such unreal expectations for what we think our lives should be. I feel like now is the time to stand tall and feel 100 percent comfortable in my skin even though I’m occupying a space that I know historically wasn’t built for me.

[From Teen Vogue]

I feel her about protecting her mental health, and I’m significantly older than this young woman. I went through a stage, post election and post inauguration, where I really just had to find ways to unplug and decompress and not watch the news and take care of my own mental health first and foremost. That lasted for months. And then the dam broke at some point, and now I’m following this mess again, obviously. But I still have to take a break from it, very often.

Also: is it the new thing to talk about how phones and social media are destroying the Millennials? I feel like this is the fifth celebrity to make a similar reference to that just in the past month.

Photos courtesy of Teen Vogue.