Good riddance to Maya Dillard Smith
The bathroom bill issue is sweeping across the United States, with conservatives heatedly arguing that allowing people to use the bathrooms most consistent with their gender will destroy the fabric...
Category: LGBTQ+
Exploring gender identity at the Trans Theatre Festival
For nearly a decade and a half, The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn has been a hub of cutting edgy innovation. (Just check out my interview with Mariah MacCarthy about last year’s inaugural...
Lauren Wissot interviews transgender wrestler Jessica Love
xIn January I had the pleasure of attending the truly unique DocPoint Helsinki as this year’s Critic’s Choice critic. (And I mean truly unique. How many documentary film festivals feature a sauna...
How Wheaton College threw its queer students under the bus
Conservative Christianity is another country, one whose citizens are often deeply suspicious of the world beyond its borders. Julie Rodgers’ article in Time last week, in which she shares the story...
Director Sydney Freeland on Trans-centric Web Series “Her Story”
A web series about a couple of Los Angelenas discovering love when they least expect it sounds less “groundbreaking” than stereotypical indie pitch. Yet “Her Story,” which debuts its first...
Beautiful Ugly? Amy Schumer’s Pirelli Shot Is No Risk At All
Feminist media darling Amy Schumer is in the news again this week for her feature in 2016’s Pirelli Calendar — the world-famous borderline pornographic calendar distributed to distinguished...
Why Public Broadcasters Are Making More Radical Shows
In a media landscape where calls for diversity are growing exponentially in the US and overseas, and where networks, publishers, and others are starting to slowly respond, one mediamaker is being...
Please Like Me: The Gay Australian Drama You Should Be Watching
Please Like Me has just begun its third series on ABC2 in Australia and Pivot in the US, and it looks to be as tender, sharp, wry, and thoughtful as the programme’s initial run. Deemed ‘too...
Germaine Greer Is A Hateful Bigot
Noted transphobe and feminist theorist Germaine Greer has yet again lurched into the newsweek with trenchant and scintillating commentary on the trans experience, via dehumanising and misgendering...
Flying While Transgender – The Shadi Petosky Saga
Shadi Petosky is a visual artist from Los Angeles who has worked on several graphic novels and animation projects—currently, she’s a member of Puny Entertainment, a Minneapolis and LA-based...