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Don't blame the booze

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Oct 5, 2025
  • 2 min read

Blame your bigoted actions and deliberate attempts to ostracise me for being trans. Everyone loves the rants until they're in the firing line. Your entire argument to justify the hateful bullshit from 2020 (drags), 2022 (drags + Tory + 'non-binary' writers) and 2024 (Tory) has been that I need to take a joke, so how about accepting my critiques? You lot can't take a joke, as evidenced by me calling out Steve Barr, then receiving that blackmail image on DeviantArt after I had my pill overdose. I published information about that overdose online, so that wasn't a joke, but a calculated threat by a producer who was scared of an investigation. - I love how people who didn't take advanced theory courses, as well as those who did, are so wired to equal temperament that they proved my point. Being unable to hear those subtle uneven shifts until I used pitch shifting says that you're not the geniuses you purport to be. Who double-checked my work? Elizabeth Kerr from a classical POV, presumably Jerome Kavanagh, Rob Thorne and Alaistair Fraser from a taonga pūoro POV. Plus Michael Brown and the music team at the National Library. The tens of thousands who saw my ad in Polynesia were largely satisfied. I sent it to Barbara with the intention of translating it into French, but she hasn't replied. - If I'm angry, Cassandra, it's because you were involved in a conversion therapy attempt. My behaviour is suitable for my community, which is why I'm not part of yours. Your community wants a man that occasionally does drag. Unacceptable. If I'm angry, VUW and Mr. Barr, it's because you tried to steal my script. These matters have been referred to the police. - We could do this all day, but suffice to say my moods aren't typically controlled by my use of drugs and alcohol, and that I've developed even more self-control after being diagnosed as bipolar 5 years ago. The drug and alcohol use remains remarkably consistent, while my mood fluctuates largely based on real-world stressors, such as David Seymour intimidating me while I was staring at him from the public galleries.

 
 
 

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