coppercogsworth:kendrasaunders:Category Is: ROYALTYAbout Pose FX: Centres around trans woc (twoc) an
coppercogsworth:kendrasaunders:Category Is: ROYALTYAbout Pose FX: Centres around trans woc (twoc) and ball culture A protagonist who is a twoc & is HIV+Takes a homeless a black gay boy and black trans woman under her wing Another protagonist who is a black trans woman & sex worker and has a love interest (the only white and cishet character, thank goodness)2 black boys who are happy and in love addresses white gay male discrimination towards twocunconventional family dramatrans characters played by trans actorsJanet Mock discusses her work on groundbreaking FX series “Pose” and reflects on being the first transgender woman of color to write and direct for a TV series.Definitely watch the whole video, it’s only 5 min: - [With Pose] I was excited by the fact that it would be the first of its kind to talkabout the New York City ballroom scene, which a lot of people have known since Paris is burning right, but to also centres characters and people who have never been centered before trans women of colour. - Knowing that 26 trans people were murdered in the US last year, almost all of them women of colour, I thought it was important that we memorialise the people who we’ve learned so much from, the people who contributed so much to our movement, the people who have given me access to be able to be the first trans woman of color to be hired in a Hollywood writers, the first to write and direct a television series, to be on a television series and to share it with five black and brown trans women of color who are the stars and centre of our show. - We’re often always, in cisgender stories and gender stories non trans people and non-trans people’s stories, as a sidekick, as someone who’s a martyr, who dies, in order to teach a cis person about what it means to be real and authentic. - [in Pose] we don’t show the origin stories of our characters we show them as they’re fully embodied, just trans people living in New York City and with that you have diversity you show that trans folk are not a monolith. - [Do you feel the gravity of representing people who have never been represented?]The fact that we have love stories on our show, the fact that we’re not just merely points of trauma because. So often trans bodies are usually dead in inactive bodies. So here we have five women who have different dreams, who have loved, who want desire, who want to be desired, who are funny, who are villains.- When you centre these people [twoc] on the show, you show people that it’s not scary, that they’re not horrible people, that they’re not freak shows, that instead they're humans that you care about.Reactions from some black celebrities, including trans and gay actors (x) -- source link
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