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Along with using her platform to speak out against legislation that she feels is harmful to her community, the actress and her wife, Miranda Pearman-Maday, also have a YouTube channel that Symoné says they created to bring more \"visibility\" to couples just like them.

\"For the longest time in my career, when I would date somebody, I never really told anybody,\" she said, adding that she was \"raised\" to not share her relationships in the public eye.

She said that changed due to her wife's influence: \"Miranda, my wife, came to me and she said, 'you know, there's not a lot of millennial, lesbian, multiracial couples that are speaking out within the entertainment industry.'\"

\"So I'm like, oh, that's interesting, does anybody care? She was like, 'who cares if anybody cares? We care.'\"

And 8PM, their joint channel, was born. The actress said she loves creating content for the channel with her wife, but expressed that she feels there is a deeper purpose for their shared platform as well.

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Symoné described it as a space for \"people out there who need the confidence, who want to see themselves, who need to feel validated,\" and added that the channel is largely about \"normalizing our marriage -- because it is normal -- but we need more visibility so that people understand that.\"

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\"We have a lot of fun being able to showcase our love, our conversations and bring people into the conversations as well,\" she shared. \"It is a safe space -- her favorite words -- to have healthy conversation and discussion. There's no judgment and everyone's thoughts are welcome as long as they're respectful.\"

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