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 Topic: Lana Wachowski Award Speech

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  • Lana Wachowski Award Speech
     OP - March 20, 2013, 08:21 AM
    Amazing, beautiful, moving acceptance speech by Lana Wachowski, winning the HRC Visibility Award:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crHHycz7T_c
    [Transcript]

    Eloquently written and delivered. Incredibly open and honest. This is one part that stood out for me:

    "I remember thinking about my dad’s words, his acceptance of me, when my wife and I first read about [murdered transgender teen] Gwen Araujo. It seemed impossible that something like that could happen so close to this city, yet here was this person like me murdered by ignorance, by prejudice, murdered by intolerance, it seemed in direct inverse proportion to the acceptance of my family. Murdered by a kind of fear that seeks to obliterate any evidence that the world is different from the way they want to see it, from the way they want to believe it to be."

    Words that transcend this context and apply to so many thing in this world. Apostasy to name but one.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
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