Building trust

Starts with my full legal rights being respected by my enemies. This means that they will accept that I wrote Weeded Out and all the original songs, and have zero desire to licence them to the same people that called me a slut and a pervert. It also means acknowledging that it isn't my role in life to be in a movie, particularly a Sondheim adaptation. I'm a composer, and my songs are very good, so perhaps they should try to find me more opportunities in my field. -

The next step is that they need to admit their behaviour may have been transphobic, and apologise for using my gender identity as a way of invalidating me. -

The third step would be to talk kanohi ki te kanohi in order to attempt to find a project that everyone can agree on. That can't be any version of Tina's story: I'm writing a book.

It can't involve doing an MA at VUW. I'm busy doing other things.

It can't be playing in the NZ guitar quartet: I don't want to.

Allowing me to do a hard-hitting documentary about arts and culture funding might be a project that we could discuss...