A Mirror, but not a Mirror: gender

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

This is pretty much the conclusion of this project

BUT I would have a follow-up question for this person: if it's so overrated, why would you make it the center of your activism? Aren´t there any other more urgent causes?

Hi, there!

I have been working on a short documentary for three months. It is about gender identity and art: I´m featuring Aiden, a young photographer who transitioned from a female to a male body and who deals with gender identity in his art work.

I kept a "production book," but it soon became a journal reflecting what would be my own journey unlearning what I knew about gender and rewriting it.

Many times I considered blogging these notes, but thought nobody would be interested. That, until Aiden began asking about my reactions, my ideas, my feelings, my own experience of gender.

He and his story made it so hard to stay at the corner and report. I knew that sharing my thoughts during the production would change his responses as an interviewee, so I shut up. The harder it became, the more I wrote. Here are my notes.

A Mirror, but not a Mirror

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

This is pretty much the conclusion of this project

Hi, there!

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