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Rather than join Gus Against Them at the May Day protests, Black Dahlia Parton invites Amy Dentata over to flesh out their plan to infiltrate the women’s struggle.*
*THIS IS WHAT RADFEMS ACTUALLY BELIEVE
Geeky Topics Discussed: Video game development, the accidental feminism of the new Judge Dredd movie, Amy plugs her new game Rock Bottom.
Social Justice Topics Discussed: The transsexual plot to sabotage the women’s movement, the myth of the universal girlhood experience, navigating oppressive humor.
Non Geeky Topics Discussed: BDP’s interest in doing porn, women’s experiences with depression, trans/trans relationships.
Black Dahlia Parton and I talk about gender, videogames, trangst, and have an awesome intense insightful time.
I’m tired of being erased from history, pretending that trans women and people of brown/black/red/yellow/etc skins do not matter, don’t have brains and stories and substance and identities and loves and lives that should be elevated.
This erasure is violent and dangerous and needs to change. We as a LGBTQIA community can not let this just go on. We can’t take crumbs and say, “Well they covered us, right? Look they have Santiago Cortes in the piece + he mentions a drag queen in his Ivy League essays!” No, we must say:
“Cover us in all our glorious intersections and diversities or LEAVE US ALONE. We’ll tell our own stories.”
We here at Transition Transmission salute you Gail Simone : )
indeed
I thought this video might be relevant.
Love this. So much.
Yay I submitted to wtftransdating! If you haven’t seen this video yet, check it out for dating-while-trans hilarity. And check out the blog, it has a good mix of side-splitting and rage-inducing stories. Gotta vent about this stuff somewhere!
imagine a film about a trans woman who is trying to survive the zombie apocalypse
and she has to plan her movement so that she can stop by pharmacies to scavenge for hormones
because being herself is as important as having food and shelter
i would pay $1000 to watch that
I want this in videogame form!
I’m currently writing a story about a trans woman in a zombie apocalypse. She hasn’t yet had to deal with not having hrt but that is something I plan on addressing in a future part.
If anyone is interested in reading it, this is a link to the last part I’ve written and posted. It has links to previous parts at the top.
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On December 11, 2008, voice actress and transgender activist Maddie Blaustein passed away in her sleep at the age of 48. Blaustein was best known among English-speaking Pokémon fans as the original 4kids dub voice of Meowth. Maddie, you really were the “top cat” and your fans miss you so much. Rest in peace.
I miss Maddie so fucking much.
See, I had no idea she was a voice actor when I got to know her. I knew Maddie from a progressive political message board and got to be friends with her that way, hanging out in the LGBT forum (queer ppl on the site were a tight-knit bunch). She always had a kind word to say, a wicked sense of humor, and she had zero fucks given for ignorance. She went in HARD whenever people were being assholes on race, class, etc. She hated bullies and was always standing up for people, even the ones who weren’t her friends. Really tho she was smart and funny as fuck and passionate and just an amazing person on like every level. She was one of the people I really looked up to.
The world didn’t just lose a voice actor, as talented as she was. It lost an amazing warm-hearted and kind woman whom I was very proud to call a friend, even if I only ever knew her from a message board.
Trans and queer guardian angels followed me everywhere in childhood, I swear to god, and probably a lot of other people too. You know who else she voices? Grandpa in the 4Kids Yu-Gi-Oh! dub.
Blaustein also helped invent Second Life, where she organized trans support groups, and was a well-regarded 3D modeller. And she wrote comics.
I don’t know what her relationship was to playing so many male characters, but I do think it’s pretty badass that she was like, “Fuck you guys, I’m going to do what I’m good at, and if that doesn’t conform to what you think trans women should do, I give not a single fuck.”
yeah MAddie Blaustein has been a trans woman i have looked up to for quite some time now. she was so brilliant
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WHAT IF ONE DAY WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO TRANSITIONS INTO ANOTHER GENDER DURING THEIR PRESIDENCY
AND THEN THE ENTIRE NATION HAS TO CHANGE PRONOUNS
THE ENTIRE NATION
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Here’s my face for no particular reason.
Signal-boosting!
Please circulate and/or apply!
Trembling Void Studios is preparing to do a political comedy web series following a trans woman who’s lost her job and her apartment.
I’ve looked over the beginning of the script and think it’s really well written. Their previous work also looks very good and I’m very excited to see this happen. I’m tempted to apply myself, but the time commitment may be too much for me considering my own projects. You can read the script and the full casting call on their facbeook page (check the pdf tab for the call and the file sharing tab for the script), but here are some quick details
[SÜ] Lead, 25-35 years old female, trans.
TRANSGENDERED MTF-SPECTRUM ACTORS ONLY
ALL ETHNICITIES
ALL BODY-TYPES
ALL ACCENTS
ALL LEVELS OF EXPERIENCEThe production is based in Vancouver, BC. However, they are looking across North America and willing to pay travel and help set up housing. Application deadline is Oct 17th, auditions Oct 19-21st (in Vancouver or over skype). It involves being in Vancouver Oct 25-29 to shoot the teaser and then again to shoot the entire series over roughly two months in early 2013. Pay is $350-550 depending on need.
They were asked on their facebook if any trans people were involved in the writing or production. This was the response Amy E. G. Fox gave:
I’m Amy, the showrunner/producer, one of the writers and a supporting actor. I’m MtF and a soft butch. The series was created by two trans people working alone for about eighteen months, based on a comedy routine performed at a transgender event. Three of the six people on the current writing team are out as trans. Some of the crew will be too. Other people may or may not be trans - I have’t asked. All trans roles in this and future episodes will be played by self-identified trans actors.
So, written by trans people, produced by trans people, and acted by trans people.
Signal boost people! This is the only shot, I know of, trans people have at decent representation in a web serial right now(I’d love to be wrong). If this fails it might be years before something like this comes around again. On the other hand if this is a success, a huge run away success, it could be a stepping stone to better representation of trans people in mainstream media. At the very least it will be something we can see ourselves in that isn’t a ciscentric, transphobic shit ball.
So Please Boost.
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Transition Transmission - Episode 1
Transition transmission is a podcast by and for transgender, lgbt, and questioning individuals. Join Amber, Ramona, and Alexandria on the pilot episode of the show. We introduce ourselves and get to know each other. We will be discussing issues relevant to transgender, transsuxual, lgbt, and the gender questioning individuals.
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