Ashley Love: "Yes, I Saw It And I Wish I Hadn't"
by: Autumn Sandeen
Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 21:00:00 PM EDT
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/15689/ashley-love-yes-i-saw-it-and-i-wish-i-hadntBy Ashley Love
There seems to be some concern about whether or not I have seen the appalling film Ticked-Off Tra**ies With Knives (TOTWK). I in fact did see the entire film, though I wish I hadn't. It made me feel violated, depressed, dehumanized and disappointed. As a media specialist, and organizer of a trans anti-defamation group, Media Advocates Giving National Equality to Trans People (MAGNET), I have received many films from film festivals and film makers that are trans specific. However, director Israel Luna failed to truly enroll the trans community in his project. Even the Dallas trans community protested the film before it was finished being made, and their efforts, and Luna's rejection of their plight, is documented.
He failed to give activists and leaders in the trans community his problematic film prior to this controversy - he knew from many warnings that it would not be well received by many trans people. As a person with many media/entertainment industry contacts, I was able to view the film through an associate. This associate asked I not have their name released, for fear of the "wrath of Luna and the 'ticked off' supporters of his transphobic film".
