Meet the trans teenager making a documentary about kids like her
“I need to show people what it's like to be a trans person in the United States today.”
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“I need to show people what it's like to be a trans person in the United States today.”
“I’m trans in part because I believe in the hope of a better future. It’s why I do this. It’s why I do anything.”
The prose brings out the best of the story, and the result is a balanced read that is hard to get elsewhere. By Jane Migliara Brigham Most trans fiction falls into one of two camps. The first camp is that of the pessimists, where the difficulties of being trans are
When speaking to the public, [comedian Ashley Ryan] called the march our “gender reveal party”, where all the women present would reveal our genders (as designated by the federal government) “for the very third time”.
You can't promise that the world's going to get better, but you can promise that for a couple of hours, you're going to have a good fucking time. And there's something to be said for that.
The original thesis is an engaging read, well worth the time to do so.
If creators think a trans or queer character alone is enough to get money from our people, will they spend time crafting a meaningful story with transness and queerness, or will they just use it as set dressing and a marketing checkbox?
By Jane Migliara Brigham ‘Chicken Heart’ is a trans coming-of-age story by graphic novelist Morgan Boecher. The main character is a repressed trans man spurred into action by the death of his exiled trans aunt. Where ‘Chicken Heart’ succeeds where many similar trans coming of age stories fail