While Margolin is irritated by the attacks on her identity, she is also bothered by some people’s fixation on limiting her to one passion. “They’re like, ‘What? No. You’re The Climate Girl,’” she says of critics. “Pushing someone into that box isn’t helpful. It lessens my climate activism because it’s like, ‘Yeah, of course she’s gonna say that — she’s The Climate Girl’…It’s been really affecting my mental health for a while to be pushed into that and being stripped of all of my other identities.”