Hey fam, it's me Amara.

Welcome to the Translodge podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives.

Well, we're deep into awards season, and it's been a complicated year for trans film.

Carlos Sophia Gascan made history as the first trans actress nominated for an Oscar for her role in Amelia Perez,

but the film and the actress herself have created quite a firestorm of controversy.

But we've also seen some exciting developments in the world

of transfilm and filmmaking over the past year, from experimental cinema like I Saw the TV Glow

and the People's Joker to the heartwarming documentary Will and Harper. So I wanted to talk with

someone who's watched all of this and who has some really good

insights and opinions on the good, the bad, and the ugly of transfilm right now, informed

by their own experience.

So I'm joined by a filmmaker and critic Drew Burnett Gregory, who shares which films she's

been loving and which films she didn't love quite so much.

I do just want to underline that, like, I want work that is challenging.

I want work where trans people do things that we don't approve of,

whether that's, like, has sex with the wrong person,

and we're like, oh, no, don't do that, or, like, is fully murdering someone.

But before we get to that cinematic conversation, let's start like, oh no, don't do that. Or like, is fully murdering someone.

But before we want to become.

And that is certainly true for New Mexico-based artist Lauren Snyder.

After coming out as a trans woman at the age of 66,

Lauren's creative practice blossomed. She's shown her work in galleries across the country

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