Tuesday, April 06, 2010
When does my trans work become your anti-trans work?
Scott Turner Schofield
http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/when-does-my-trans-work-become-your.htmlHI THERE ASHLEY,
Thanks for sending me your letter. I want you to know that I am posting it, as well as the opposing view pasted below, so that people may make their own decisions based on two well-thought-out, good-hearted, but very-much-opposing points of view.
I have to tell you that, as a full-time working artist who has been censored, I get verrrry touchy when people start telling artists what they can or cannot say, portray, or do. Especially artists who are marginalized by societal attitudes/ignorance about their identities.
You know my work, you know its heart, you know what it does. What line do I have to cross to get protested? When does my trans work become your anti-trans work? Who gets to make that decision? You? GLAAD? 1700 people on Facebook? Most of whom have never even seen my work? Really?
