Friday, June 20, 2014

Trans-Media

We are starting to make inroads in to the arts, Laverne Cox, Candis Cayne, Harmony Santana, up and coming actress Michelle Hendley, and director Lana Wachowski. Amy Fox, can be added to the list, she is a transgender television producer in Vancouver Canada who is producing a comedy series with trans-actors.
Amy Fox's 'The Switch' May Start the Transgender TV Revolution
Bustle
By Kat Haché
June 19, 2014

One person, Amy Fox, a transgender television producer in Vancouver, Canada, has been listening. She too sees issues of transgender representation in media as important, and she began to produce a comedy series in which all of the transgender characters will be portrayed by transgender actors, in the first show of its kind. In addition to portraying transgender characters as human, The Switch will cover topics relevant to the experiences of transgender individuals’ lives without making their existence the butt of the joke.
They are trying to raise funding for the show and hopefully they will be on the air next year.

A show about trans-people, directed and acted by trans-people, this proves that the talent is there and there should be no need to cast non-trans-people for trans roles.

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