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Fringe show "Queer and Present Danger" presented by Anna Piper Scott
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Triggers all over the place here because that's the nature of the performance I went to see at Fringe Festival on Friday night. "Queer and present danger," a one woman performance by Anna Piper Scott on being trans and gay and going through puberty twice.
There were mentions of dysphoria and suicide and ignorant relatives. So watch out if that's something that matters to you. It was hilarious and grim and and went from one to the other in a moment so that one was still trying to stop laughing when she shifted to the Dark Side. I wanted to be able to remember all of it instead of the few high points I managed to crunch into my brain.
I did write a better post than this right afterwards, but then managed to lose it before saving. Story of my life.
Anna talked about how it was 'the thing' to have a gay best friend in the '90s but now, transfolk are the new must have accessory!
We are the survivors. We are the ones who survived long enough to come out.
Transitioning was the most important thing she ever did (Anna said) and yeah, same here. It wasn't easy but it was amazing.
She talked about the strange questions people ask one. "Do transfolk actually have sex?" or wanting to know what's the worst thing about being trans. She's talking about experiences of a transwoman, but it immediately made me think about being asked, for about three months straight at the start of taking T, whether I had a cold because my voice kept doing weird things and I couldn't control it!
Anna said people assumed she was now dating men and this was not the case because men were terrible and who would date them? This segued into the advantages of dating a transman, which just about broke me.
Cough.
And the horror of conservative parents. My mother, because I'm an adopted child, said "But we specifically asked for a girl."
Anna's said, "Well, at least it isn't cancer."
Ouch.
And trauma Jengo is absolutely a thing. I can't explain it; you had to be there.
This performance also had an Auslan translator and I confess to watching her some of the time to try to work out what the signs were for some of the crazy stuff Anna was saying. The translator also had to render the heckling from the audience (in a good way) and that was even funnier. I think I've got the sign down for "T Rex," or at least part of it :-) You imitate the tiny arms. Of course now I can't remember what on earth a T Rex had to do with anything at all!
Triggers all over the place here because that's the nature of the performance I went to see at Fringe Festival on Friday night. "Queer and present danger," a one woman performance by Anna Piper Scott on being trans and gay and going through puberty twice.
There were mentions of dysphoria and suicide and ignorant relatives. So watch out if that's something that matters to you. It was hilarious and grim and and went from one to the other in a moment so that one was still trying to stop laughing when she shifted to the Dark Side. I wanted to be able to remember all of it instead of the few high points I managed to crunch into my brain.
I did write a better post than this right afterwards, but then managed to lose it before saving. Story of my life.
Anna talked about how it was 'the thing' to have a gay best friend in the '90s but now, transfolk are the new must have accessory!
We are the survivors. We are the ones who survived long enough to come out.
Transitioning was the most important thing she ever did (Anna said) and yeah, same here. It wasn't easy but it was amazing.
She talked about the strange questions people ask one. "Do transfolk actually have sex?" or wanting to know what's the worst thing about being trans. She's talking about experiences of a transwoman, but it immediately made me think about being asked, for about three months straight at the start of taking T, whether I had a cold because my voice kept doing weird things and I couldn't control it!
Anna said people assumed she was now dating men and this was not the case because men were terrible and who would date them? This segued into the advantages of dating a transman, which just about broke me.
Cough.
And the horror of conservative parents. My mother, because I'm an adopted child, said "But we specifically asked for a girl."
Anna's said, "Well, at least it isn't cancer."
Ouch.
And trauma Jengo is absolutely a thing. I can't explain it; you had to be there.
This performance also had an Auslan translator and I confess to watching her some of the time to try to work out what the signs were for some of the crazy stuff Anna was saying. The translator also had to render the heckling from the audience (in a good way) and that was even funnier. I think I've got the sign down for "T Rex," or at least part of it :-) You imitate the tiny arms. Of course now I can't remember what on earth a T Rex had to do with anything at all!