Deen: Sure. I go by he. So, use male pronouns.
Basil: I go by gender-neutral pronouns, I prefer they, them.
Sylvan: And I use he and him.
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Oh Gender, Up Yours!
Deen: Sure. I go by he. So, use male pronouns.
Basil: I go by gender-neutral pronouns, I prefer they, them.
Sylvan: And I use he and him.
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I thought this article was great, because it addresses transgender people as JUST PEOPLE. Which is something that I have tried to emphasize to the people around me in my everyday life. I hate that there has to be an emphasis on a transition or that culturally we treat trans people as people that need to be acknowledges as different. They shouldn't be because they are just people, nothing more nothing less. The most touching part of this article is one of the people saying that they want trans people on stage to not be an event. To just be normal, and not have people look at them on stage as though it is strange for them to be performing. I was so moved by this because, I have never thought about wanting to just be treated as normal. It was a moment of realization for me, that I think everyone needs to have. We all need to come to terms with our own privilege. I cant wait until trans people don't have to fight to be considered normal, and we all start on an even playing field.
The people in this article made a lot of excellent points about the realities of being a queer or transgender artist in media today. There was a lot of discussion on articles from earlier weeks about transgender representation in the media, and how transgender characters should only be played by transgender actors. However, this article demonstrates the trap that transgender artists can easily fall into when working with that mindset, which is that they can easily be pigeonholed into only telling stories about being trans or about transitioning, and not actually getting the opportunity to tell other stories. While it is incredibly important for transgender representation to be more prevalent in the media, and for transgender actors and creative people to have more opportunities to tell their own stories, it is still crucial to prevent pigeonholing in these types of stories, which is something that the people in this interview seemed acutely aware of in their own creative endeavors. As trans representation becomes more prevalent in the media, this issue is one that the community will need to keep in mind when creating their stories.
I found this article interesting to say the least. Like Sarah, it was amazing to see people, who happen to be trans, portrayed as people. Our society places far too much emphasis on the transition, on the physical aspects, of a gender identity that sometimes it looses the person wearing the identity. In reality, people are just people (and be respectful of how they identify themselves). This need to sort humans into boxes is terrible. That is why, like one of the speakers, I love the word "queer." It is a beautiful, all encompassing umbrella that, should you need to inform someone of an identity to aid in interpreting writing/actions, lets the world know just enough. After all, some people write with a queer lens. I look forward to the coming years of new shoes that (hopefully) include more queer stories. Like the speakers I also would like to see more trans and queer people in non-queer roles because queer people are more than a personal identity and operate in normal roles in society because they are normal people (but that's a rant for another time).
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