copperbadge:bemusedlybespectacled:bootsnblossoms:refinery29:Drunk History just did a really
copperbadge: bemusedlybespectacled: bootsnblossoms: refinery29: Drunk History just did a really amazing episode on the Stonewall Riots. Besides everything, two great things about this episode: 1) The narrator is Crissle West, the woman who narrated the Harriet Tubman episode; and 2) Comedy Central actually cast transgender actors for transgender roles. Gifs: Comedy Central Check it out. Fucking perfect. Putting the narrative back in the hands of the changemakers makes me unspeakably happy. *sniffles* This is a better adaptation of the Stonewall story than Stonewall and it’s like a fifteen-minute story narrated by a drunk person with a TV show’s budget. I knew the story of Stonewall in a general sense from the time I was young and I was blown away in college when we did a play referencing it and almost none of my peers knew what it even was – the very first meeting one of the actors asked me “When she says Stonewall, what’s that, was it a battle?” and I was like “Well…yes…..” As dramaturg I did up a little report on it to explain it to everyone and even then, in 2000, it was tough to find citations on Stonewall, there was a lot of “oh, we don’t KNOW who started it”. But I did my best, and a lot of the students picked up the report and started reading it and their eyes got huge. A few of them were gay or bi or genderqueer but they were mostly from small conservative towns and they had no idea their people had a history, let alone a history like this. And even having learned about it and having taught others about it, oh my god, THE SHOT GLASS HEARD ROUND THE WORLD. I’ve never heard that before and what a perfect phrase it is for what happened. -- source link
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