1:05pm August 8, 2013

“‘The wisdom has been that trans actors can’t or won’t go deep,’ says Cox, ‘because—and a lot of this is because of how we’ve been represented—people think that our identities are not real. We are fake women.’ At the GLAAD awards one year, a well-known director told Cox that ‘all she could do was glamour.’”

Laverne Cox in Hugh Ryan’s fantastic profile (via thestoutorialist)

waaaait wait wait wait okay let me get this shit lined up we enforce femme passing on trans women, expect them to be high femme in expression, to break their backs looking right, talking right, walking right and then not only do we get angry when trans women are successful at this ONE KIND OF FEMININITY that they’re allowed to express we then complain that trans women have no depth? HOLY FUCK we are the WORST KIND OF PEOPLE

(via ceeainthereforthat)

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