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Press Release – Ara Institute
As New Zealand launches into Pride Week 2021, Grae Meek is busy at her day job but she’s also launching into pre-production for her first short film – appropriately enough, a story about a transgender woman returning home for a potentially tense reunion dinner with her family.
Grae identifies as a trans woman, and her passion for story-telling and film is matched by her drive to promote understanding of and empathy for the LGBTQIA+ community, and to combat lingering, unhelpful stereotypes about trans people. She works to achieve these aims through a range of channels; a skilled videographer, Grae now has over 20,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel ‘Seadresa’ where she explores topics related to the transgender community and she also donates her time to work as a facilitator for the transgender support group ‘Phoenix’.