'Wildness' To Premiere At SXSW

Wildness is a feature length film by Wu Tsang that celebrates a four decade old Latino trans bar  in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park neighborhood called the Silver Platter.

It debuts at SXSW and Wu Tsang was interviewed by Colorlines

  

Becoming Johanna Documentary

I'm always on the lookout for interesting trans documentaries, especially when they tell the stories of trans people of color.   Renee of Womanist Musings talked about this one with a post back in April that's entitled Becoming Johanna-The Struggles Of A Latina Trans Girl

It's part of a series of films from the Youth And Gender Media Project which is producing short films about the complexities and challenges facing gender variant youth.

These films are aimed at and seek to educate teachers, administrators, parents and students in school communities across the United States.    They also are designed according to the Youth and Gender Media Project website to introduce radical new concepts for many audiences.




They point out the very idea that a young child can be transgender and have the wherewithal to fight against the pressures to conform to a binary gender paradigm, to the new and still very rare use of hormone blockers to delay puberty. However, since the films are structured around universal themes such as parenting and acceptance, identity and difference, growing up and coming of age, tolerance, love and self-esteem, they remain accessible and deeply moving even to people who are resistant to the idea of transgender youth.to 

And based on the transphobic Hateraid, ignorance and discrimination we transpeople get buffeted with from all the communities we interact with, they are sorely needed.

Wendy's Wedding

Discovered some more photos on the Net of Cuban transwoman Wendy Iriepa's wedding back on August 13, and since I haven't done a photo post in a while, thought that would be a perfect subject for one.

This one is dedicated to the two transwomen fighting in Joanne Cassar and Nikki Araguz for our human rights when it comes to getting married (or divorced), and the fight that Ms.W waged in Hong Kong to do so.

We are part of the diverse mosaic of human life, and its past time our human rights in all faces of society be respected and protected.   We want to live, love and have the abilty to marry the person we love just like cis people, and we can't forget or stop fighting for it.

The Silent 'T'

I posted the trailer videos a few day ago from the I Am The Queen documentary by Josue Pellot and Henrique Cirne-Lima.   This was the initial trailer video of some interviews that were done but didn't make it into the final film but according to the filmmakers were instrumental in getting the project jump started.