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Boys Don't Cry
Title: Boys Don't Cry
Category: Entertainment / Movies & Film
Details: Words: 1316 | Pages: 5.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Boys Don't Cry
I work in a transitional living program for homeless queer and trans youth in Hollywood. Sometimes people donate comp tickets to hockey games or talk show tapings and so we go on field trips. A few months ago we got a bunch of passes to a screening of Boys Donˇ¦t Cry, the fictional film based on the life of Brandon Teena, so me and about seven of the residents loaded up in a van …showed first 75 words of 1316 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1316 total…hate and criminality get attached, once again, to the ˇ§uneducated?ˇ¨ Where are the glossy magazine articles about the grassroots organizing efforts of trans people of color? Where is the national mourning for murdered black and latino and asian bodies? We must not simply be satisfied by the presence of transgender topics in film or popular discourse, but we must question how the terms of these conversations foreclose real dialogues about race, class, sex and nationality.
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