Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Finally Trans Actresses

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Finally Trans Actresses

Trans actresses and actors are finding more parts available to them.

How Jen Richards Made Anna Madrigal Her Own in Netflix’s “Tales of the City”
"I had this moment of, 'I can't do this.' It's fucking Olympia Dukakis!'"
NewNowNext
By Christopher Rudolph
July 7, 2019

To say Jen Richards was nervous to play a young Anna Madrigal is an understatement.

Richards, the Emmy-nominated writer-star of Her Story, also co-produced the docuseries More Than T. She is one of the most visible trans actors working today, having appeared in shows like Nashville, Blindspot, and Better Things.

Her latest role is in the Netflix limited series Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City playing a young Anna Madrigal, the character originally brought to life on screen by Olympia Dukakis.

Richards appears in the eighth episode of the series, a flashback focusing on Anna’s arrival in San Francisco in the ’60s and her life before becoming landlady of 28 Barbary Lane. It also depicts the historic Compton’s Cafeteria Riots of 1966, and even while filming the episode, Richards knew it would be “something special.”

Then last year it was announced that Nicole Maines was in a CW channel show.

'Supergirl': Nicole Maines shows her power as TV's first transgender superhero
USA Today
By Bill Keveney
October 10, 2018

BURBANK, Calif. – Nicole Maines understands the significance of her new “Supergirl” character by imagining what someone like Nia Nal/Dreamer would have meant to her when she was a child.

“If I had had a trans superhero, someone who looks like me wearing a cape, (while) growing up, that would have changed the game. That would have been an entire new level of validation in myself to think that I can be a superhero!” says the 21-year-old trans woman, who joins the CW action series in Season 4's opener (Sunday, 8 EDT/PDT).

Nia, who is inspired by and an ancestor of 30th Century DC Comics character Nura Nal/Dream Girl, marks TV's first trans superhero. She's introduced as a young reporter working for Kara Danvers/Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) at CatCo Worldwide Media. Her identity, her superpower (Dreamer is an alien "precog" who can dream the future) and her icy-blue suit will be revealed as the season progresses.

Producers were committed to adding a trans hero to the DC Comics TV universe headed by megaproducer Greg Berlanti ("Arrow," "The Flash"), says executive producer Robert Rovner.

We now have an IMDB page devoted to trans actresses

Changes are coming slowly but we are making headway.

In case you missed it; here is the first episode of Her Story

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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

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Finally Trans Actresses

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