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Title: When does my trans work become your anti-trans work? Wh
Post by: Shana A on April 07, 2010, 09:00:09 AM
Post by: Shana A on April 07, 2010, 09:00:09 AM
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.html (http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/when-does-my-trans-work-become-your.html)
HI 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?
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.html (http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/when-does-my-trans-work-become-your.html)
HI 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?