BECOMING MORE VISIBLE, A GROUNDBREAKING FILM Trans teen homelessness – A burgeoning crisis. Who is responsible? The kids, or society?From behind the lens of photographer Josh Lehrer we will tell the compelling stories of five, homeless transgender teens. Their backgrounds are diverse, but their stories are strikingly similar. Rejected by their families and lured to New York City with the hope of finding connection and love, many of these trans teens instead find themselves again rejected and homeless. But is it their fault?
After years of exploring this topic we now want to turn an inquisitive lens to the society at large; a society that refuses to acknowledge a broad spectrum of gender expression and to ask them some pertinent questions:
•What do homeless trans teens have to teach our community about life, culture, family, safety and love?
• If trans people have been around since the beginning of civilization, why has our culture been the one to so profoundly let them down?
• What does this massive dismissal say about us?
• And if nothing is wasted in this world, then what are the lessons implied in embracing these kids, rather than casting them out?
• Would it mean we would have to become more loving, more celebratory, more open and more willing to cherish the differences in all people?
• And what, ultimately, does this out of hand rejection say about the responsibility that human beings have for one another?
Whatever the answers, it starts with, BECOMING MORE VISIBLE.
This project has less than a month to gain the remainder of the Kickstarter funding it needs.
Let’s keep this moving. Even single dollar donations are progress.
They still need more than 50% of their goal by Feb 6. And with Kickstarter, you have to earn ALL of the goal amount to receive ANY of the funding money.
Skip the Starbucks this week and put that $5 toward something life-changing.
There’s a week left to pledge to this project.
It still needs about $12,000. If the goal is not met, the filmmaker doesn’t receive any of the pledge money.
Again, if you truly want representation, if you truly believe in visibility, you need to put your money where your mouth is and support this. Or support some other project that you deem worthy of your hard earned cash.
You can pledge a friggin’ dollar. That’s less than a cup of coffee. It’s an iTunes download. If you pre-ordered Lea Michele’s album, you can kick a buck to something that has the potential to change lives.
And it really doesn’t have to be this film. This is just a project that I think is important. But my dash is full of individuals who regularly post about a lack of recognition or a need for the majority of the population to understand the minorities within.
We live in an awesome time where something as cool and innovative as Kickstarter exists.
You have no excuse not to take advantage of it.
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