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Nov
22
Karla Sofia Gascon stars as Emilia Pérez. This photo is a close-up of her looking at something nearby.

2024: The year in trans cinema (made by cis people)

12 min read
Sep
27
Our present-day Demi Moore sits on a couch right in front of a picture depicting her in the '80s.

The transness inherent to The Substance

8 min read
Jun
12
Two babies, both bald, both in diapers, lay on two blankets. One blanket is pink, the other blue.

All babies are boys until proven otherwise

Why does everybody think my baby is a boy? Also: Why do I care?
4 min read
May
01
Two parents hold their babies. One of the babies is no longer present, replaced by blue sky.

Hypothetical children

Why do we spend so much time protecting children who don't really exist?
7 min read
Apr
03
Hannibal (from the TV show) sits at a table covered in flowers, a skull, and other arcane symbols.

Repost: On Hannibal Lecter, transness, and creation through annihilation

What does it mean to change your body?
6 min read
Mar
23
Paul stands atop a rocky outcropping to address his throngs of followers in Dune: Part 2.

Dune: Part 2 and (trans)gender prophecies

5 min read
Jan
17
Sheldon (an egg with two chicken legs sticking out) and his chick brother Booker in the cartoon Garfield and Friends.

Toward a definition of "Egg Cinema"

How movies made by seeming cis people sometimes end up super trans.
10 min read
Aug
03
The Kens from the Barbie movie grasp ad hoc weapons as they go to battle.

I was busy thinkin' 'bout boys

What if your sexuality transitions too? What then?
7 min read
Aug
12
Lingua Franca and the beauty of second chances

Lingua Franca and the beauty of second chances

Isabel Sandoval's 2019 film about an undocumented immigrant shows new ways to tell trans stories.
5 min read
Mar
28
It's a perfectly adequate life

It's a perfectly adequate life

OR: On longing
9 min read