All I've seen is the thumbnail in my subscription feed, yet knowing it's about racial identity (or at least assuming as much) is enough to draw me in immediately.
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Met up with a friend in Brighton for a few days! It's such a queer friendly city and basically I love it. So many rainbow flags everywhere, and there's an LGBT charity shop with a decent selection of queer themed books (and also the Raven DVD game, but anyway.) I'm at the point of thinking I'd love to live there after I graduate. Bookshops, independent comic shops, amazing culture, vegan restaurants. I love it!
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Watched the DVD of the documentary The Celluloid Closet. It's pretty dated now, but it offers a (far too brief) overview of often coded early queer representation. I would have preferred to see a more extended focus on early cinema and the Code era (1920s-50s), but that's what the book is for. The real strength is the interviewees the film has - including Susan Sarandon, Quentin Crisp, Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Dyer and Tony Curtis who offer a lot of good insight. But you can tell it's a made for TV documentary from the 90s and it can be a bit 'talking heads' at points - although there's some nice use of supercuts of film clips.
Also watched Céline Sciamma's Tomboy on iPlayer. I was already in love with her film Girlhood, which truly does shine bright like a diamond (sorry), but Tomboy really does a good job at showing childhood gender dysphoria. I don't want to gender Mickaël/Laure (although I feel more comfortable them as male, although many critics stick to 'she' pronouns), but it shows not only parental resistance yet accepting children but it also depicts early stages of the transgender experience - like using packers (even if it's made of Play-Doh here), feeling comfortable going swimming and using urinals, and so on. Plus Para One does his best Philip Glass impression and ugh it's great
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Fusion posted a great documentary on trans athletes entitled No League of Their Own and as expected the comments section is an absolute mess