@toddedillard this is so beautiful, and resonates for me bc i love trans masculinity so much. the happiness of people who CHOOSE masculinity and fight such a unique fight to find that joy.
It's NPR's Story Corps, but you submit stories about your experiences with cis men so that people can search and set alerts to determine whether or not they want to have these guys in their lives.
It is just unreal to me that Baltimore can have their professional women's tackle football team a single game from the national goddamn championship without any media coverage.
Imagine disrespecting women athletes SO much.
When I was in high school, this kid hired out a whole bar for a party (drinking age was 18) and invited everyone.
We didn’t hate him, but he also didn't really have friends. No one came.
I still think about this. But at least it cost him less than $44 billion.
What makes Every Body so remarkable as a queer documentary is that you will see heartbreak, yes, but you will also see joy, progress, wonder, resilience, and *hope*.
How refreshing. How empowering. How necessary.
Often queer stories are so filled with tragedy that it is difficult to watch. It can feel overwhelming and paralyzing to see how far we have to go. To know how many lives we lose to the violence and oppression we face.
But not in Every Body.
See Every Body. You'll learn about intersex people -- people who have genitals, chromosomes, or reproductive organs that don't fit into a male/female binary -- and how the surgeries performed to "correct" their bodies were done without consent and with catastrophic consequences.