On 1/2/21 6:28 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
On 1/2/21 5:54 PM, Shane Hopkinson wrote:
I don't doubt that most people - gay straight or trans - experience
their sexuality and gender as arising naturally (its is, as the
saying goes, second nature) from within the body but that doesn't
mean its the best way to understand the politics and history of
liberation which is to recognise that essentialism has a conservative
history not a progressive one.
I'm not going to respond to this blather but will say that as a film
critic, I have been put in the position of watching and writing about
films that feature transgender subjects. Reading the Platypus article
made me sick with all its self-assured abstractions so detached from
the real lives of human beings. So, these are my reviews and the links
to the film, if available.
1. For They Know Not What They Do,
https://louisproyect.org/2020/09/16/for-they-know-not-what-they-do/,
https://www.amazon.com/They-Know-Not-What-Do/dp/B08HQYQJLC/
2. Stonewall with a T,
https://louisproyect.org/2020/08/21/great-documentaries-from-socially-relevant-films-see-them-for-free-tomorrow-and-saturday/,
3. Changing the Game,
https://louisproyect.org/2020/01/15/cinematters-ny-social-justice-film-festival/
4. The Garden Left Behind,
https://louisproyect.org/2019/11/26/the-garden-left-behind/,
https://www.amazon.com/Garden-Left-Behind-Carlie-Guevara/dp/B08H8R4LRT
Another: Born to Be,
https://louisproyect.org/2020/11/18/the-last-vermeer-born-to-be/.
https://filmforumhome.org/main/born-to-be
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