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Stop playing the race card, stalkers

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Sep 29, 2023
  • 2 min read

Updated: Sep 29, 2023

Seriously, I may say un-PC things, but my actual track record re: ethnic variance and race relations is that most of my friends aren't Pākehā since I came out. I'm not saying I'm faultless, but I try hard to understand other perspectives, and that flowers beautifully in my songs. I'm not a middle-aged white woman, but those songs for Rose came out very well. I'm not Māori either, but I think my scripts all relate to kaupapa Māori, without reading like I'm putting my wokie hat on for brownie points. - As for the vendettas: My main enemy from the NZSM is a cis white man, and I've easily spent as much time lashing out at him as I have at Salina or Cass. Plus all the time I've spent roasting Don McGlashan. 👋 Though they've all tried to position themselves as the underdogs to accuse me of punching down, the obvious truth is that my nemeses all have good jobs and far more access to the corridors of power -- therefore, it is me who is punching up at them. - While I'm deconstructing arguments, I'll point out that Cassandra Tse is a hypocrite if they think that they can bag on me for writing an Asian lady when they wrote an entire musical about cis white guys played by chicks. This isn't Parliament: I can call people hypocrites. 🤣 I don't care how bad my behaviour seems from the outside. Those who want me to return have not written a single letter or ever offered me a dime for my projects. Perhaps if they consciously began including me as Amy the fafa, I might be nicer, but not while they're trying to force me to make my autobiography. Please acknowledge that I own the IP rights to my songs, and therefore my stalkers are not entitled to tell me how to use them. I disagree about producing the autobiography, I steadfastly refuse to make any script changes, and I implore them to buy it off me after I've written my book. - I'm not a drag queen. I hate fronting. I want a real life as a real trannie in real offices. To the gay scene: I hate your attitudes, and forgive me if 'sometimes you're Amanda' doesn't cut it for someone who legally changed their name because they feel that strongly that they should be a woman ... that's bigotry, and is NOT alleviating my dysphoria. There is NO way to persuade me to only do drag on stage. THAT IS NOT ME. I want the psychiatrists who stalk me to accept that I'm not diagnosed with DID or fetishistic disorder -- Carmen liked to wank a lot too. Therefore, the path to gender-affirming healthcare is to let me transition at my own pace, much as she did. Either change my diagnoses or bugger off with your patronising 'advice'. - No, Fred, I'm not changing the title of my autobiography to Shipwrecked on Islands, and I am NOT including those songs. ONLY EVER SAYING NO. And why the fuck do you care anyway? 😡 It's not like there's a role for you in that script...

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Sep 28, 2023

Right now, it feels like you're saying 'oh, but Carmen was a performer...' Yes, she was, but her first major political act was to legalise crossdressing in public. To me, the people who are hounding me are living in the 1950's, and that's so regressive. She had an inheritance too. So did Georgina. ❤️ - It is 100% legal to wear women's clothes in public, and she was arrested for baring her breasts, so I'm not particularly ashamed re: my bulge dramas (again, it's NOT illegal to have a bulge). PLEASE stop making me feel like I'm not allowed to do things I am legally entitled to do.

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