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stages of grief
That's what my enemies are going through. Bargaining atm. The cops are on their arse, and they're realising that the laws aren't on...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 31 min read
"DID"?
Nope. I don't live in the closet, so there's only one personality. AMPP clearly displays me behaving like an irate journalist with and...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 31 min read
Why don't I show my face?
From the outset, one of the things we were fighting with Fresh Culture was this idea that the reporter should be the story for short-form...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 31 min read
On the other side of the fence
Well, it's slightly different as the victim rather than the suspect, but still a stressor. Sorting out my whole life story after being...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 21 min read
Pathway to professional films
Yes, that is the intention of several projects, but you can't ask me to act or sing. I'm not going to sell my book rights, so it would...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 21 min read
The Perfumed Garden
In Music and The Power of Sound, Danielou says that the Celtic modes are the same as the Spanish and North African modes, which suggests...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 21 min read
My film scoring rules
Don't give me a temp track unless you're one of those brilliant needle-drop directors. I don't want a music supervisor telling me to...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 21 min read
No adaptations
No donations. Weeded Out isn't legally available. Please let me say no. Give up on your tactics, and admit that meeting me was a better...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 21 min read
trans visibility
I'd say that my years of crossdressing in Wellington are more valuable than the TV show that is attempting to cash in on my success. You...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 21 min read
Writing basics
You can't pinch someone's idea unless it's in the public domain. Ironically, my version of Weeded Out was comprised of public domain...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 21 min read
"Be a bimbo"
That's basically the pitch. That's not ok. As I said in the manifesto, that's the trannie ghetto. There's a bunch of people in...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 21 min read
Me vs. Māoridom
No, it's not because I'm a plummy toff. It's because I'm a gay plummy toff. A lot of macho bros just can't handle that. Noticeably, the...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 11 min read
To the Americans
No, I'm not awestruck by Hollywood. If it was 1948, maybe. 2025 is just a bunch of corporate suits beating the dead horses of...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 12 min read
To Whom It May Concern,
This letter is to formally establish the current and continuing position regarding the intellectual property rights of Amanda Michelina...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 303 min read
'let us film it; we'll give you credit'
No. Never. You can't say to young filmmakers that the way to succeed is to steal someone's script, then blackmail them into working for...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 291 min read
How to reconnect with me
Meet me socially. Give me my social life back by apologising for the slander. Accept that my value as a person goes beyond doing a gig...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 291 min read
'treatment' = torture
You've got to stop asking me to wank, sing or play guitar when I'm angry. How about communicating directly, meeting me in person, and...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 292 min read
Being profiled
Well, when all this conversion therapy and SIS bs went nuclear in 2022 and early 2023, I was a member of Te Pāti Māori. Clearly, that...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 291 min read
Why settle?
Simple: the Greens are in big trouble, and Golriz and Darleen are ticked off at you. My case merely lends weight to their beliefs that...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 291 min read
The boycott
Was probably the best activism idea I had. Essentially, I wasn't going to concerts anyway, but when I formally called it a boycott, it...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 291 min read
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