"Genderf*kation: A Gender Emancipation" comes to church this weekend

Twin Cities Daily Planet
Jim Brunzell III
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/arts/genderfckation-gender-emancipation

As part of Transgender Day of Remembrance, which is actually November 20, writer/director Chris Durant's documentary film Genderf*kation: A Gender Emancipation will screen this Saturday, November 19 at All God's Children church on Park Avenue in South Minneapolis. I had the chance to see Durant's film last summer at its world premiere screening in mid-June, just a few weeks after the OUT Twin Cities Film Festival—Minnesota's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer festival—which Durant directs. I was also surprised to learn at that screening that Minnesota also has the second largest GLBTQ population in the United States.

Transgender Day of Remembrance is an annual vigil for transgender Individuals who lost their lives due to violence within the past year. According to Wikipedia, "Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a transgender graphic designer, columnist and activist, to memorialize the murder of Rita Hester in Massachusetts, founded Transgender Day of Remembrance in 1998."  Last year alone, TDoR was recognized in 20 countries and 185 cities across the U.S.