Beautiful Daughters (2006 - LOGO): strong transwomen
February 28th, 2008 | by logo |
“This original Logo documentary looks at the lives of four transgender women intertwined with the casting, rehearsal and opening of a V-Day benefit production of Eve Ensler’s “The ****** Monologues.” The women confront and discuss the issues they face as transgender women and how “The ****** Monologues” is used as a vehicle to address these issues to a mass audience. Part of Logo’s Real Momentum documentary series.” — from logoonline.com
To view this documentary series and extras, click here:
http://www.logoonline.com/shows/dyn/beautiful_daughters/videos.jhtml
For more information about “Beautiful Daughters”, see here:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Beautiful%20Daughters/Beautiful%20Daughters.html
Lynn Conway’s TS Successes website:
Women: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TSsuccesses/TSsuccesses.html
Men:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TSsuccesses/TransMen.html
Lynn Conway’s website:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/conway.html
Leslie Townsend’s story, “Hidden in Plain Sight”:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TSsuccesses/LeslieTownsend.html
More information about The ****** Monologues and VDAY:
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/ensler/vm/
http://www.vday.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vagina_Monologues
See here later on for image credits.
Audio clips were all from the documentary series, “Beautiful Daughters”.
I own nothing.
GRADY
22 Responses to “Beautiful Daughters (2006 - LOGO): strong transwomen”
By hgykyggbhy on Mar 1, 2008 | Reply
brave people
By mzkellievictoria on Mar 3, 2008 | Reply
Beautiful segment, Im a tranwoman, Thankyou for addressing such controversial subjects and ….. almost suicidal… agendas…
We are ONE …
Thank you again
Kellie
By Famous641 on Mar 6, 2008 | Reply
well umm i never really paid attention to trans ppl but Valerie Spencer has the seam exact name as me. I don’t understand any transsexuals I mean they could have some kind of extra hormones that some ppl don’t have. BUT WAIT DONT TURN AWAY YET I DONT GET UR STRENGTH IT IS AMAZING TO GO THROUGH GETTING BEAT DOWN JUST TO BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE AND I THINK THAT IS REMARKABLE TO HAVE THAT STRENGTH I HOPE WHEN I GET OLDER I CAN HAVE A OUNCE OF THAT STRENGTH.
By MIDJOBZ on Mar 9, 2008 | Reply
like diamonds we are beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!
By princessadiamond on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
so true, when you first come out your family accepts but with a fear of the world and other people making fun of them and you but when i went in the public everyone would tell my mother what a beautiful daughter, my brother you have a **** sister and to my cousins whats her number?. thats when they got over there fears and they knew that it will be alright. LIVE LIFE FOR YOU AND DO NOT ALLOW ANYWAY TO STAND IN THE WAY OF YOUR DESTINY AND THEN EVERYTHING ELSE WILL FALL INTO PLACE
By weerobot on Mar 13, 2008 | Reply
Moving and excellent..
By kennidi on Mar 16, 2008 | Reply
One of my favorite things! Im friends with Calpernia! Love her! Thanks for sharing this great piece of work!
By lesgaybitrans on Mar 17, 2008 | Reply
Strong *********** women… I loved the video, i favorited it and it was the reason i made another playlist not only for trans people, but just for trans-sexual women
By hotwaiter on Mar 18, 2008 | Reply
Leslie Townsend came and spoke at our school, she was so amazing. What a great sense of humour, too.
By VanWADebbie on Mar 18, 2008 | Reply
It is nice to hear the voices of our trans-sisters, especially Lynn Conway. I admire her the mostly for her academic acheivements.
By sierraTS on Mar 20, 2008 | Reply
Awesome, I love these type’s of insperational ,touching video , Thankx…
By uwi2 on Mar 21, 2008 | Reply
One of the best here in YouTube!
By 6672rock on Mar 24, 2008 | Reply
I give these women credit where credit is due. I can’t even begin to imagine the hell they went through to get where they are today. I commend them for their bravery.
By mysteryachievement on Mar 27, 2008 | Reply
Moving…so touching…when Lynn gets emotional, so do I. I have choices to make in my life, things are hard. These women are my role models - women who speak to me and give me courage to be me. Jo
By nataliashofa on Mar 30, 2008 | Reply
this is beautiful…
I was moved,touched and i felt like I was one of these brave women.
Someday I will have my own stories to tell and I knew it,in a way or the other would be quite similar with the experiences of these women.
Wonderful!!!
By TheDragonGuy on Mar 30, 2008 | Reply
thank you for your comment, and congratulations for being one of the early success stories.
best of luck to you!
By TheDragonGuy on Apr 2, 2008 | Reply
and thank YOU for the comment! the real credit goes not to me of course, but to these women, the folks who put together the original movie, and Eve Ensler for adding their stories to the monologues. believe it or not, though I’m a TS man, I can relate to a lot of this. anyway, I’m glad you enjoyed it
By TheDragonGuy on Apr 4, 2008 | Reply
thanks for the comment. glad it made an impact, and yes, I’m also a big fan of these womens’ voices
By TheDragonGuy on Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
thanks as always for the kind comment. you could say this one was selfish.. gave me a good chance to show off just how much I respect and even admire TS women (hint, hint!). glad I got to show you somethin new
By rupunzell on Apr 8, 2008 | Reply
THANK YOU, Thank you for putting this together. These voices speak of what the lives of many TS women who have survived this journey is really like.
By james3d on Apr 11, 2008 | Reply
Very touching, passionate and emotional discourse. Beautiful voices!
By nuclearswan on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
hehe great video, thanks, I had actually never heard lyn conways voice before, that was also quite a treat!