happy trans day of visibility
here’s a list of things with canon trans and nonbinary characters (not including robots, aliens, or other non-humans, because im tired of that being referred to as good representation)
TV
- Orange is the New Black
- Sense8
- Orphan Black (minor character)
- The OA
- The Fosters
- Shameless
- Faking It
- Doubt
- Mr Robot
- American Horror Story: Hotel
- Moville Mysteries
- Billions
- When We Rise
- Drop Dead Diva (minor characters)
- Boy Meets Girl
- Star
- Frida
- Outsiders (minor character)
- Sailor Moon
- Elementary
- Twin Peaks (minor character)
- Superjail!
- Bold and the Beautiful (minor character)
- Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Wentworth Prison
- Wentworth
- The L Word
Anime/Manga
- Sidonia no Kishi (Knights of Sidonia)
- Wandering Son
Movies
- About Ray
- 3 Generations
- Boy Meets Girl
- Get Real
- Tomboy
- Ma Vie En Rose
- Todo Sobre Mi Madre
- Tangerine
Webseries
- Carmilla
- Couple-Ish
- Sidetrack Series
- Her Story
- The Uncanny Upshurs
- Brothers
- People Watching
- Adventures of Serena Berg
Podcasts
- Welcome to Night Vale
- The Message
- The Penumbra
- Freed
- Space Log
- The Strange Case of Starship Iris
- Carpe DM
- Jim Robbie and the Wanderers
- Sable
- Friends at the Table
- Death At A Low Price
- Whatever Happened to Jonathan Green
- Blue Dawn
- Adventures of MechaBetty
- Audio Diary of a Superhero
- Inkwyrm
- Spines
- Oak
- Cthulhu and Friends
- Iron Horses Can’t be Broken
Books
- The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson
- If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
- Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan
- Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
- Everyday by David Levithan
- I am J by Cris Beam
- Symptioms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
- On The Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis
- Robins of the Night by Dajo Jago
- Rock and Riot by Chelsey Furedi
- Never Satisfied by Taylor Robin
- The Last Halloween by Abby Howard
- Every Heart a Doorway by Saenan McGuire
- When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-mArie McLemore
- George by Alex Gino
- Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
- Luna by Julie Anne Peters
- Parrotfish by Angela Katz-McNair
- What We Left Behind by Robin Talley
- Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
- The Best Boy Ever Made by Rachel Eliason
- Being Emily by Rachel Gold
- Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (minor character)
- A Boy Like Me by Jennie Wood
- Nevada by Imogen Binnie
- The Collection by Topside Press
- I’ve Got a Time Bomb by Sybil Lamb
- Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
- Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg
- Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
- Transmen and FTMs by Jason Cromwell
- Body Alchemy by Loren Cameron
- Ties that Bind: Familial Homophobia and its Consequences by Sarah Schulman
- She’s not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
- Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall
- Introducing Teddy by Jess Walton
- The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
- Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami (minor character)
- Buffalo Belle by Oliver Douzou
- What We May Be by Maxine Jackson
- Aftermath by Chuck Wendig
- Girl Mans Up by Vanessa North
- Coffee Boy by Austin Chant
- Peter Darling by Austin Chant
- Cinder Ella bt S.T. Lynn
- A Boy Called Cin by Cecil Wilde
- Otros Valles by Jamie Berrout
- Rethinking Normal by Katie Rain Hill
- Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
- Trumpet by Jackie Kay
- Life in the ‘Cosm by Cait Gordon
- Dreadnought by April Daniels
- At The Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson (minor character)
- Not Your Sidekick by C.B Lee (minor character)
- In Inexplicable Logic of my Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- A+E 4ever by I. Merey
- The Unintentional Time Traveler by Everett Maroon
- The Miccah Grey Seires by Laura Lam
- Sweet Nightingale by Robin Swift
- Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen by Arin Andrews
- Liminal by A. Sieracki
- Just Girls by Rachel Gold
- Being Emily by Rachel Gold
- The Devil and the Bluebird by Jennifer Mason-Black
Comics/Webtoons
- Paranatural (minor character)
- Lumberjanes
- ShootAround
- Always Human
- Demon Street
- Monsterkind (minor character)
- Go Get A Roomie (minor characters)
- Deadendia
- Feast for a King
- Knight’s Errant
- The Wicked and the Divine
- Immortal Nerd
- White Noise
- Demon House
- Monsterpop
- Assigned Male
- Intergalactic Little Spat
- O Human Star
- Chaos Life
- As The Crow Flies
- Prague Race
- Never Satisfied
- Namesake
- Questionable Content
- Jem
- Bombshells
- Rat Queens
- Les Normaux
- Angela
- Asgard’s Assassin
- Rechargeable
- Goodbye to Halos
Games
- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- dys4ia
Theatre
- Hidden: A Gender by Kate Bornstein
Music
- When I was a Boy by Dar Williams
- Kim Petras
add your own! let’s make this a big list for tdov!
The Upcoming Film About Black Trans Activist Marsha P. Johnson Looks Absolutely Legendary
After protests over the erasure of trans women of color from Robert Emmerich’s Stonewall, expectations are high for the short film Happy Birthday, Marsha!, about trans activist Marsha P. Johnson. If the trailer’s any indication, this movie will slay!
Marsha features acclaimed Tangerine star Mya Taylor in the title role.
The trailer shows off a sumptuous, hyper-real 60’s aesthetic.
The film also features trans actresses Eve Lindley, Cherno Biko, and Rios O’Leary-Tagiuri.
There’s even a glimpse of Marsha P. Johnson herself in the trailer!
That’s right — it’s gonna be legendary.
BuzzFeed News caught up with filmmakers Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel, who showed us some wonderful exclusive images from the making of the movie.
Gossett told BuzzFeed News: “The pictures were all taken during the shooting of our ‘Hotel Dixie’ scene in which Marsha, Sylvia, Bambi and Andorra are hanging out in a hotel room they share.The scene is a flashback to 1965 when Sylvia is new to their scene and to sex work. Marsha is acting a as a sort of mentor to Sylvia.”
Commenting on the rich look of the film, Gossett notes: “We wanted the movie to reflect Marsha’s beauty. She wasn’t really fancy but she was fanciful, and when we talk about aesthetics it’s about the beauty of how she relates to other people.”
Wortzel adds: “Frequently people expect that if a film is political it’s not going to be beautiful. It was really important for us to make a film that was deeply political and personal in many ways but also gorgeous to look at.”
Happy Birthday Marsha is currently raising funds on Indiegogo, to make sure the film will be as amazing and beautiful as possible.
WE DID IT
Fuck yes! It’s about damn time!
WATCH: The Official Trailer for “Assigned Sex,” a controversial story about gender and culture in America through the eyes of transgender people of color. MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR OCTOBER 16!
#OUTINTHENIGHT #NJ4
Anyone got deets on this film?
Here’s what I got from the Facebook:
OUT IN THE NIGHT (formerly titled The Fire This Time) follows the journey of a group of African American teenagers who went to a gay-friendly neighborhood in New York City for a night out. These lesbian and gender non-conforming friends, Patreese, Renata, Terrain and Venice, were confronted by an older man on the street. They defended themselves. Strangers jumped in to support them and a fight ensued. Only the women were rounded up by police and charged and convicted as perpetrators of gang assault. They became known as The New Jersey 4.
OUT IN THE NIGHT follows their journey to Rikers Island, to the courtroom, and through slanderous media coverage that labeled them a “Wolfpack” and “Lesbian Gang”. While exploring the fight from all sides through the security camera footage that captured it, that hot August night in 2006 can be seen from many perspectives. But our film’s purpose is to examine the events after the fight: biased media coverage likening the women to “man-hating” animals, and unprecedentedly harsh sentencing by the court. This story shows how four young, queer women of color were unfairly criminalized for defending themselves.It’s currently running the film festival circuit, but you can keep checking the website for new screenings: www.outinthenight.com
