Salt Lake 

People are so much deeper and far more extraordinary than what gender they were assigned at birth.

Paris is Burning elevated drag and ballroom into the public consciousness and permanently impacted LGBT culture. However, the performers featured in the documentary didn't reap the rewards of their visibility.

In Deaf, the Spanish director Eva Libertad explores pregnancy and motherhood from the perspective of a deaf woman. Her movie examines how the world imposes the notion of disability on her main character while she actually does not feel disabled herself.

I think these messages and the way they are presented in this small-town in Texas are increasingly more important as the internet/ social media becomes more and more critical and judgemental every day. Love yourself today and every day because as Ru Paul always says: “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love someone else?”

We are incredibly blessed that this movie is available for us to see, and we should take advantage of the opportunity we’ve been given. 

The actions that Verity confesses to are tragic.  But the way to prevent those actions isn’t to force the related emotions into the shadows.