FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Affirming
Her True Story, Not His Revisionist Glory: An Education Rally
August 27th
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Warner
Brothers Studios,
3400 W. Riverside Dr., Burbank, Ca. 91505 (Edu-Rally held outside building)
Stonewalling
Accurate & Inclusive Depictions, or SAID, hosts an education rally regarding the
highly disputed ‘Stonewall’ film. Professors, historians, noted advocates
and community leaders are scheduled to speak and will convene outside Warner
Brothers Studios (distributor of film) to educate on Stonewall’s actual
history. (Speaker list below).
Director/producer
Roland Emmerich and screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz, both white gay men, have
crafted such an inaccurate depiction of the 1969 Rebellion against police
brutality and transphobia that it supersedes what both men excuse as mere
“fiction” to what scholars and credible sources deem as historical revisionism due
to the film's whitewashing, trans-erasure and gay-washing. Furthermore,
transsexual feminists have condemned Emmerich’s ‘Hollywood trans-face casting’,
a commonly used term for the stigmatizing and humiliating industry practice of
non-trans directors hiring male actors to play trans* woman roles. This
miscasting only reinforces institutionalized misgendering, which is a form
of trans-misogynistic gender mockery.
*Educators,
advocates and community members wanting to speak during the education
presentation are welcome to email S.A.I.D. below.
CONTACT: ActualSAID@gmal.com
Scheduled Speakers
Professor
Jennifer Thompson,
Ph.D. - CSUF History Dept., Black trans woman, historian of African studies
Dr. Marie
Cartier, CSU
Northridge (Gender & Women's Studies), historian, openly lesbian author
Ashley
Love, journalist, S.A.I.D.
organizer, Black Trans* Women’s Lives Matter coordinator,
transsexual/intersex advocate
Rachel
Rose Luckey, Stonewall
Democratic Club, Chair of Transgender Community Issues
Eli
Erlick, Director of Trans
Student Educational Resources, trans woman
Jennicet
Eva Gutierrez, Familia:
Trans QLM co-founder, Latina trans woman (made headlines this summer
after interjecting President Obama’s White House speech to decry the violence
faced by detained Latina trans* women)
Jonel
Hudson, former MTV
Networks employee, Black trans woman, artist
Faith
Cheltenham, BiNet
USA President
