Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: I Would Add One More

Friday, November 17, 2017

I Would Add One More

On Logo’s website NewNowNext they have a post about trans actors and I would add one more trans actress to their twelve actors. The article is from 2015 but I just found it posted on Facebook.

12 Transgender Actors To Watch
Remember their names, Hollywood.
by NewNowNext Editors

The amazing success of Laverne Cox is a reminder that transgender performers are here, they’re talented, and their experiences need to be reflected on the large and small screen.

Too often trans actors don’t even get to portray their own community, losing out parts to cisgender actors who reap the benefits come awards season. Below are 12 trans actors we want to see hit it big.

Some of the actresses/actors that they list are;

1. Mya Taylor
Taylor made a big impact with her performance in Tangerine, as well as appearing as LGBT pioneer Marsha P. Johnson in the short film Happy Birthday Marsha! about Johnson and fellow activist Sylvia Rivera.

5. Jamie Clayton
Clayton, who co-hosted VH1’s TRANSform Me with Laverne Cox, was one of our favorite parts of Sense8, Netflix’s acclaimed sci-fi series from trans siblings Lana and Lily Wachowski.
More recently she’s appeared in The Neon Demon and the 2017 thriller The Snowman.

7. Elliot Fletcher
Fletcher had recurring roles on MTV’s Faking It and Freeform’s The Fosters, as well as the first trans character on Showtime’s Shameless.

And my favorite…

9. Michelle Hendley
Hendley made her film debut in the romantic comedy Boy Meets Girl, and has made appearances on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and in the 2015 film The Player.

My nomination is Rachel Crowl who starred in And Then There Was Eve; but I’m a little biased because I know her and her wife. Her bio on IMDB is,

Rachel Crowl is an actor, musician, and photographer living in Los Angeles, California. In a former life she was highly active Off-Broadway, playing roles as diverse as Henry in Henry V, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, Macheath in Threepenny Opera, and Estragon in Waiting for Godot among others. The LA Film Festival winning And Then There Was Eve is her screen debut.

Then there are the stars from Her Story.

So when you hear people say there are no good trans actors show them this list.

No comments:

Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Friday, November 17, 2017

I Would Add One More

No comments:

Post a Comment