Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Still Against Censorship, even of TOTWK
Posted by Scott Turner Schofield at 9:12 AM
http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/still-against-censorship-even-of-totwk.htmlA good interaction last night. Clearly this fight is not for lack of love.
From my good friend Pidge:
but censorship doesn't seem like the primary issue to me here. absolutely, the filmmakers have a right to freespeech and free expression, no matter how hateful or trans-misogynistic i ultimately find that expression to be. that said, deciding not support that work is not the same as censorship, though i know it can turn into a fine line. a film festival doesn't screen every movie submitted, it picks and chooses those it deems the best of the bunch. so in choosing to screen
TOTWK, it is, to an extent, endorsing the film. holding tribeca accountable for the content is chooses to promote is not the same thing as censoring the freedom of speech of the film makers who produced TOTWK.
