erl on Nostr: Highly recommend watching Screaming Queens if you have a chance ( ...
Highly recommend watching Screaming Queens if you have a chance ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WASW9dRBU ). It's Susan Stryker's extremely well done doc on the Compton's Cafeteria riots back in 1966, including interviews with trans women who were there, who lived through pre-Compton San Francisco, and who organized the reforms which ultimately laid the groundwork for legal understanding and recognition for trans folks throughout the country.
Like so many of us, I have a simmering fear about the future. I watched this doc last year right after the close of the North Dakota legislative session - a session which rolled back a number of my rights in that state. I felt a good amount of grief about those restrictions as they made what was previously implicit very explicit -- I'm not welcome in the place I spent the first two decades of my life.
This doc gave me my first rounds of reprieve after that grief. We've been through worse and we've fought hard for our rights and we can and will fight again.
Like so many of us, I have a simmering fear about the future. I watched this doc last year right after the close of the North Dakota legislative session - a session which rolled back a number of my rights in that state. I felt a good amount of grief about those restrictions as they made what was previously implicit very explicit -- I'm not welcome in the place I spent the first two decades of my life.
This doc gave me my first rounds of reprieve after that grief. We've been through worse and we've fought hard for our rights and we can and will fight again.