We See You, Tre'vell
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Award-winning journalist and What A Day host Tre’vell Anderson has officially added “author” to their many accolades. Their debut book, We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV & Film, is out today, along with the audiobook and an accompanying limited series podcast. Tre’vell walks us through their process writing the book, the stories within it, and their message to future generations of Black trans kids.
And in headlines: a New York jury will begin deliberations today over whether to hold Donald Trump liable for an alleged sexual assault, California’s reparations task force approved several recommendations addressing the state’s history of racism and discrimination toward Black residents, and the Writer’s Guild strike has officially entered its second week.
Show Notes:
- We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film – https://www.trevellanderson.com/books
- We See Each Other: The Podcast – https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/we-see-each-other-the-podcast
- What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcast
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, May 9th. I'm Josie DeFiRice. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Treville, Anderson, and this is What A Day, where we would like to formally apologize for our Royal Family coverage this week. |
| 0:16.2 | Right, we did not talk about Queen Charlotte, but to be fair, there's a lot going on right now. |
| 0:20.1 | There absolutely is, Shonda Rhymes. If you're out there listening, we're sorry, and we'll do better. |
| 0:31.0 | On Today's show, a New York jury will deliberate on whether to hold Donald Trump's liable for an alleged sexual assault, plus this year's Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced. |
| 0:39.0 | Spoiler alert. Neither one of us got it. |
| 0:42.0 | We didn't get it. |
| 0:43.0 | Well, yet another year in a row. What is wrong with them? |
| 0:45.0 | I know. |
| 0:46.0 | We. |
| 0:47.0 | 30-something years of not getting the Pulitzer in a row. |
| 0:51.0 | Undefeated. |
| 0:52.0 | Undefeated. |
| 0:53.0 | In a different type of way. |
| 0:55.0 | But first, today is a very special day. |
| 0:59.0 | As my first book, we see each other a black trans journey through TV and film is officially available at a bookstore near you. |
| 1:07.0 | And on audiobook read by me. |
| 1:10.0 | This book is part history of Transmages on Screen, part memoir. |
| 1:15.0 | It is both a culmination of my reporting over the last decade on the issue of diversity in Hollywood. |
| 1:23.0 | And it reflects a little bit of my own identity formation throughout that same period, weaving in some cultural critique about the things we've seen on TV and in movies, |
| 1:33.0 | actress Angelica Ross did the foreword. |
| 1:35.0 | And if you care about blurbs and what not, everyone from journalists, Samara Jones and Raquel Willis, to the writer producer Lena Weith have said that you need to check out my book, including Josie Duffy-Rice. |
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