Archive | April 2014

Activist Janet Mock Flips the Script, Asks Alicia Menendez to Prove Her Womanhood

Apr29

Activist Janet Mock Flips the Script, Asks Alicia Menendez to Prove Her Womanhood

Text from fusion.net

The on-air feud between trans activist Janet Mock and former CNN host Piers Morgan made many of us in media reconsider our perceptions and approaches to stories about and relating to the trans community.

Many other journalists have been criticized for focusing their interviews with trans role models and activists around genitalia and gender reassignment surgery. This kind of questioning ultimately reduces a complex question of identity into one of physicality. But it’s tough to imagine just how invasive and humiliating those questions can be until you’re standing in their shoes.

Alicia experiences that firsthand when Mock flips the script and asks Alicia to share what it’s like to be a cisgender woman (a woman who self identifies with the sex and gender that was assigned to her at birth).

Credit: Alicia Menendez, Claudia Pou, Ignacio Torres, Cleo Stiller-Farrell, Andrea Torres, Jess Blank

Short Films That Were Made into Full Length Films…

Apr29

This post is me thinking out loud. I can shoot “Glo” as a short using my own money, enter it into film festivals, find producer/distributor or raise the money before. I’m presently attaching folks, and checking out funding sources. But I’m itching to shoot something too.

So these films made into shorts to garner attention (which they did) are really encouraging right now.

“Dennis” extended into “Teddy Bear”.

Shane Acker’s “9” extended into… “9”.

“Some Folks Call It A Sling Blade” extended to “Sling Blade”.

“Gowanus, Brooklyn” extended to “Half Nelson”.

If you’ve seen any other the larger films, wouldn’t you agree making a short from the screenplays was worth the effort? Turned out well, through and through.

I’m so excited.

 

Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend: Don’t Bring Black People To My Games

Apr27

“This attitude is prevalent around the country but political correctness”prevents it from being more overt than it already is.” ~kstreet607

*I agree, but it’s leaking and becoming more and more overt.*

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Clippers owner Donald Sterling

This attitude is prevalent around the country but “political correctness” prevents it from being more overt than it already is.

This guy is not an atypical example.  In fact, stats will show that racism is aliveand wellall over the country, particularly in the South.

Some TFC readers might wonder why I post a lot of articles about racism.  To that I would say:

Because of the skin I’m in…

Think Progress

Donald Sterling, the owner of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, told his girlfriend not to post pictures on Instagram of herself with black people and not to bring black people to his basketball games, according to an audio recording posted by TMZ.

In the recording, Sterling and his girlfriend are fighting over a picture she posted to Instagram of herself with NBA legend Magic Johnson, and Sterling demands that she stop “broadcasting” that she…

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​Native American burial ground, village site destroyed for luxury California homes

Apr25

This story leaves me speechless on many counts. But my general emotion over this is disgust. And as someone who has lived in a space where someone passed on, I can tell you without extensive spiritual work done, the lives of those lived on top of this will be disturbed…

Republicans Are Racists? No, It’s Just All a Big Coincidence

Apr25

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attribution: Reuters

The Daily Beast

The revolting comments. The emails. The jokes. The posters. The T-shirts. The ghostwriters. It’s not like it’s a pattern or something.

Come on, fellow liberals. Calm down. I guess maybe it’s fair to call Cliven Bundy a racist. That “picking cotton” business put it over the top, and wondering whether they were better off under slavery. Even Sean Hannity, Bundy’s greatest media champion, threw in the towel last night: He wanted it to be “abundantly clear,” Hannity said at the top of his show, that he found the remarks “downright racist,” “repugnant,” “beyond disturbing,” and so on.

OK, so Bundy’s a racist. It’s fine to point that out. But point up the fact that he’s a registered Republican? That’s where I draw the line, friends. I mean, come on. That’s just a coincidence. Total cosmic coincidence.

Just like it’s a coincidence that that one black…

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