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To Tamatha

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

Like, Tam: how are you not getting this? I didn't like the things that were said about me in that hui, and I really didn't appreciate being cyberbullied by all those green-aligned artists.


You set a precedent that it was ok to say I wasn't really trans. That's essentially how I view the various bullying tactics: they were predicated on the idea that I should essentially be a man, and that was the way for me to get on with my life. - As I realised recently, it felt like it was Chloe saying those things to me, and that's why I find it difficult to trust her. It's the same with you and Tory: to me, it felt like you were the ones that enabled those drag queens to take their nastiest shot at me, and it's like you said that I wasn't valid because my dick wasn't tucked away. I was wearing undies. I was wearing trousers that evening. I could've worn a dress, but that's not what you wanted: you wanted to shock me back into being a man. Tolerance isn't something that happens in the abstract. It's what happens in reality, and my experience of the Greens hasn't been entirely positive. I totally feel like the party has underestimated my impact on the whole leftie space. - I really think it could happen again. That's what happens when you spend the better part of two years fighting over a movie idea. People have said all kinds of insulting things between the lines. You've been treating me like a charity case, and I think that's diminishing me, even though I'm sure your mates get wasted (in fact, Tory was in the news cos she was drunk).

It's your friends that refused to buy my script. $20,000 in April 2023 and they'd have been able to move into production with literally any other queen as Tina. I'd have had enough money to rent an apartment, and that might've been the thing that got my life back on track. See: not some dumb homeless person (and it's diminishing to think that homeless people are dumb).

 
 
 

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