'Transparent' Could Be 2014's Groundbreaking Show There are five new comedy and drama pilots streaming on Amazon for free right now, but there's one that stands out as the next game-changing TV show.
From creator Jill Soloway ("United States of Tara," "Six Feet Under"), "Transparent" is a half hour dramedy about a transgender parent. From the pilot alone, it's clear that it has the potential to be the best show of 2014, to adopt a huge following similar to "Orange Is the New Black," and even change LGBT television in a bigger, bolder way than "Orange" has. Within the first five minutes, it's clear that the pilot is a remarkably well-written first episode.
Vulture already called it the best pilot they've seen in years, and I couldn't agree more with its smart and funny script and solid cast, which includes Jeffrey Tambor, Gaby Hoffmann ("Girls"), Jay Duplass ("Jeff, Who Lives At Home"), Amy Landecker ("Revenge"), and Judith Light ("Dallas") -- all of whom are fantastic. Close Netflix. Golden Globes 2015: Transparent the clear winner in TV awards. The first round of TV awards for the year celebrated the new, with double Golden Globes gongs for debut shows Transparent, The Affair and Fargo, plus success for newcomer Gina Rodriguez in the comedy Jane the Virgin.
Amazon’s move to join the online world of TV was rewarded with wins for Transparent in the best TV series (musical or comedy) category and also Jeffrey Tambor for a best actor award. It’s a bold show, full of warmth and insight that pushes the sitcom half hour into interesting new territory; while it’s not as radical as Louie’s freeform dissection of the outer limits of TV, it’s a show that switches gears constantly. With Kevin Spacey also winning for his second term in Netflix’s House of Cards, the idea that some of the best TV isn’t being made by traditional TV channels is here to stay. Gender Swap – Experiment with The Machine to Be Another. The 10 best new US TV shows of 2014. Each fall the networks glut the airwaves with all of their new offerings at once – and few survive.
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During a mini-challenge on the show titled "Female or She-male," contestants were asked to identify whether a photo showed a cisgender (non trans) woman or a former "Drag Race" contestant after viewing a cropped portion of the photo. Some transgender people claimed that the segment was transphobic, as "she-male" is considered by many to be a violent word used against trans bodies and lives.
Uwparkside Exhibit Explores Gender Issues Section. A debut art exhibit at the University of Wisconsin Parkside explores society’s conflicts with androgyny.
Milwaukee fashion photographer and filmmaker Lois Bielefeld, a 2002 graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, is showcasing her “Androgyny” exhibit at UW-Parkside’s Fine Arts Gallery. “I was really interested when my girlfriend gets mis-gendered all the time. People think she is going in the wrong bathroom,” Bielefeld said. “I started to think about when people don’t know if somebody is female or male and how we are such a gender dependent culture. It got me really intrigued about it.” Through a series of photographic portraits, three short films and an installation, Bielefeld explores the power and complexity of gender identity.
“The photographs invite the viewers to look, stare and question, which unfortunately is what happens to the subjects on a regular basis in public,” Bielefeld said. “My subjects all had a bathroom story,” Bielefeld said. If you go When: Through Jan. 9. #BBCtrending: Toilets, free speech and transgender rights in Texas.
The long walk to a transgender catwalk career. Growing up in a small town in the Northern Cape, Mandy* says she had nothing and no one to look up to except beautiful women in fashion magazines.
While she was growing up Mandy, who was then a young boy, would say: “I want to be a princess.” As she grew older, Mandy matured into the woman she had always felt she should be. Even though she was not a princess, when Mandy had just moved to Cape Town she was stopped by a model booker on Long Street and told she should become a model. It’s not hard to see why. With her long legs, skinny frame and pretty but not run-of-the-mill face, she possesses all the qualities befitting a model. “I was obviously a normal kid once and, growing up in the middle of the Karoo, there was a lot of prejudice,” Mandy says. The fashion graduate says that, after the model booker stopped her in the street, she went to meet agents who photographed her and even signed her up. Johannesburg-based Muzi Zuma’s experience is similar to Mandy’s.
. * Not her real name.