Meaningful apologies
- Amanda Riddell
- Mar 28, 2024
- 1 min read
I'm going to make those a contractual clause for Just Like Yesterday. I faced significant transphobia between the years of 2019-2022. I lost my family. I lost my friends. I got called a sicko and a deviant. Then people tried to convert me into not being trans. That wasn't Destiny Church: that was my supposed 'community' .. hence why there's this nomenclature in NZ: 'rainbow and trans communities' -- we're very separate, particularly in Wellington, which has such a strong trans history. - Given Tory's statement that there's no room for intolerance in Wellington re: the rainbow crossings, I expect that all the LGB folks that said I was a pervert are going to say sorry. - Another contractual clause: Amanda refuses to perform the role of Tina, given the significant mental distress that attempting to be her resulted in. It's not worth it to play a role if it results in multiple trips to the emergency room... I wrote the damn thing; it's up to the producers that want it to pay me and then to reimagine it with their original songs (rather than mine). - Haven't seen Looking, so another failed metaphor. The gay culture that I'm into is Sondheim and Broadway and high art. I'd rather like to make Just Like Yesterday as a full-length cartoon, and I analogised that to Aroha Bridge.