Trans truths
A trans artist wanted to see
a trans ‘badass’ onscreen.
George Elkind | Q Syndicate
After years of collaborating on shorts films around the East coast, filmmakers André Phillips and Charles Vuolo shared a gut feeling: They were both ready to make a feature-length production. But they weren’t sure what to make it about.
Then in 2014 they met trans artist Celia Harrison on the set of a music video in which she was performing. Still weighing the subject themselves, they asked her what kind of story she’d most like to see onscreen. She answered, “I’d love to see a film with a transgender protagonist that’s a badass.”
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Byron Lewis IV had already had his work cut for him when, as a freshly minted Kansas State University education graduate, he took over a Highland Park Central first-grade classroom.
But Lewis had the misfortune of starting his teaching career in spring 2020, perhaps the worst semester for education in modern history.
Still, in the two short months Lewis had been with the classroom of first-graders, and in the ensuing year of back-and-forth in-person and remote teaching (Lewis asked and was allowed to loop with his class into second grade), he found a strong connection with his students, who tend to come from lower-income backgrounds.