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No to VUW.

Writer: Amanda RiddellAmanda Riddell

No, I'm not doing an MA. Seriously back off VUW, and accept I've become a powerful enemy.


That's what happened as a result of not feeling welcome as a student.


I'd rather be a thorn in your side than work with you, and that's the simple truth. Even if I was keen to make the Tina movie (which I'm not), I'd deliberately do it without you because your notes sucked. That's what it means to be an indie artist.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Apr 01, 2023

I'm not travelling. I live here too, and my enemies simply have to make their own peace with that and my total lack of desire to make nice. The reason: I fucking hated debating Weeded Out: the fiction movie with the lot of you. I hated every note, I hated every quibble, and I hated that none of you had the balls to say any of it to my face. I'm probably more of a Wellingtonian than the lot of you wankers, and that's partly because of my attitude. I didn't run off to the States when being gay in NZ got too hard for me - instead, I became an unwitting icon for the trans movement. 😀

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