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I'm crying because I just watched Disclosure on Netflix and it's beautiful seeing so many trans people on screen talking about their experiences and having a space to feel the things I feel all the time but knowing other people will see it too.
Watching Sense8 was a game changer for me, I fell in love with Nomi Marks as a character, and to date she is still one of my favourite characters of all time.
When Lilly Wachowski was talking about creating Nomi aspirationally, I felt it. The quote that hit me the hardest was, "There's something funny about the magic trick of creating something out of thin air and then using that thing as this handhold to pull yourself forward."
That's what storytelling is for me, ultimately. It's building something that you're denied so you can feel what it might be like to have it.
It's why some of the characters I've written have good relationships with their parents, and some have children who love them the way my mother told me wasn't in my future.
Many of them do suffer like I did, but they grow up strong and become everything they were told they could not be. They find family in their friends and learn to accept themselves.
I guess what I'm trying to say is I love stories and, yes, while many of our stories have often been told terribly by people who did not understand us or didn't care to, we are and have always been telling our own. We just hope you'll listen.
I'm realising that the message of all this is probably undercut by the fact that my name right now is dr. himbo p. stupid, esquire and I blame @Muna_Mire for that but it's an important thread I promise
