Transgender Day of Remembrance honours transgender lives lost to violence and discrimination. This playlist celebrates the beauty and talent of the Canadian trans community and their ongoing fight for equality. Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include Do I Have Boobs Now? I am Skylar Paula Beauty My Prairie Home Into Light Unarchived Love is the First Sacred Lesson
Transgender Day of Remembrance honours transgender lives lost to violence and discrimination. This playlist celebrates the beauty and talent of the Canadian trans community and their ongoing fight for equality.
Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.
Films in This Playlist Include
Do I Have Boobs Now?
I am Skylar
Paula
Beauty
My Prairie Home
Into Light
Unarchived
Love is the First Sacred Lesson
In this feature documentary-musical by Chelsea McMullan, indie singer Rae Spoon takes us on a playful, meditative and at times melancholic journey. Set against majestic images of the infinite expanses of the Canadian Prairies, the film features Spoon crooning about their queer and musical coming of age. Interviews, performances and music sequences reveal Spoon’s inspiring process of building a life of their own, as a trans person and as a musician.
Official selection at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Before her operation, Paula was the husband, father, son and neighbour known as Paul. Now, she’s the only transgender person her community has ever met.
Meet five gender-creative kids, each uniquely engaged in shaping their ideas of what it means to be fully human.
In community archives across British Columbia, local knowledge keepers are fighting for a more inclusive history through family photos, newspaper articles and deeply rooted memories.
Sheona McDonald’s documentary captures a season of change as a mother and child navigate the complexities of gender identity together.