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Transgender Representation in the Media: How do we improve it?
n light of yet another movie with a cis male starring as a trans woman, it is more important than ever that Hollywood starts to portray transgender people in the right light.
“Trans people are way underrepresented in trans stories,” says Shadi Petosky, the executive producer for Amazon’s Danger & Eggs. “We’re newsworthy, so our stories are valuable, and these cis writers and producers want to exploit that. Even Transparent had no trans writers Season 1 because they said we didn’t exist. Cis people hire themselves to write our stories, pretend to be us, and then give themselves awards for it. Year after year.”
This weekend, Anything debuted at the LA Film Festival with a cisgender actor in a trans role. At the same time, another film was making its debut: And Then There Was Eve. The latter making its debut on Sunday, June 18, at the Arclight in Santa Monica. The indie film features Rachel Crowl, a transgender actress, in a transgender role….and there’s hardly been any press about this movie.
Rachel Crowl spoke to Solzy at the Movies yesterday and you can read that interview here.
“Trans people are way underrepresented in trans stories,” says Shadi Petosky, the executive producer for Amazon’s Danger & Eggs. “We’re newsworthy, so our stories are valuable, and these cis writers and producers want to exploit that. Even Transparent had no trans writers Season 1 because they said we didn’t exist. Cis people hire themselves to write our stories, pretend to be us, and then give themselves awards for it. Year after year.”
This weekend, Anything debuted at the LA Film Festival with a cisgender actor in a trans role. At the same time, another film was making its debut: And Then There Was Eve. The latter making its debut on Sunday, June 18, at the Arclight in Santa Monica. The indie film features Rachel Crowl, a transgender actress, in a transgender role….and there’s hardly been any press about this movie.
Rachel Crowl spoke to Solzy at the Movies yesterday and you can read that interview here.
http://www.solzyatthemovies.com/2017/06/21/transgender-representation-in-the-media-how-do-we-improve-it/
