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Playing the race card

Writer: Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Nov 28, 2024
1 min read

Privileged people do that. It really ticks me off how Cass made this big song and dance about being Asian and then claimed I was being rude because of that. It's like she's totally ignoring that my girlfriend is also Chinese. Well, Lucinda's not exactly my girlfriend, but the closest thing to that at the moment. -


I was plenty rude to Barbara, Jane, Owen, Michael Norris ... get my point?


I'm a harsh critic, and people attempting to force me to do their bidding brings out that nasty side of me.

I didn't appreciate all the 'blackface' commentary regarding my demo tracks, and that's the kind of silliness that comes from NY. I sang songs; I wrote characters that had different backgrounds and backstories from myself: that's musicals in a nutshell! A vision's just a vision if it's only in your head ... who said that?

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Nov 28, 2024

It's nice that my finances are sorted for summer, but there's not really any money in the budget to have fun. Like, maybe a short film, but even then I'm not counting my chickens.


Tina dies, though. That's the price Wellington pays for their transphobia. Why should I be the gay best friend to a bunch of people that couldn't handle me in a skirt or dress IRL?


All they had to do was buy me out. They're just whining that I set a fair price and they weren't expecting to have to actually pay me as they'd 'supervised' the draft. Well, too bad: again, there wasn't a contract regarding the script. Given that it's my script document, this was always…

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