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Wellington and apologies

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Mar 18, 2024
  • 2 min read

I'm not kidding: I won't contribute to the cultural life of this city until I get apologies. Everyone in the Wellington LGB scene owes me a solid. Given the PR that I've done since Covid, the time has come to stop marginalising me for not doing what you want, and insisting on the 2030 screenplay. - As for Tina and Jade: Ultimately, those scripts are mine and I expect realistic negotiations for Just Like Yesterday that allow me to actually finish the fucking book with no pressure. That's literally one of the Te Wānanga o Aotearoa goals -- part of the Ako Whakatere guidelines that I'm being assessed on: learners learn best when calm and stress-free. Yet another reason that I chose to enrol with them rather than VUW. 👍 - Here's a draft of how it might go: 'Hey, we were wrong to make faulty assumptions about your sexual or gender identity.

We realise that those assumptions hurt you, and that we were ultimately wrong to criminalise you for sexual behaviours that you never enacted. We realise that conflating trans people with child molesters is an unhelpful stereotype, and we'll endevaour not to repeat that mistake.

We're sorry for the years that you spent being called a pervert, and we honestly need to be more real that trans women are often not cis in terms of their sexual preferences without slut-shaming them.' - short story: I've never raped a student or touched them inappropriately. That's what people thought, though. 😲 - I'm not a closet gay, and I'm also not Nomi from Sense8. I'm into women, but not exclusively, and I'm quite open to trans partners. I've never had sex, or come anything close to that. Most of the women who dig me are somewhat fluid in regards to gender. 🏳️‍⚧️


 
 
 

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