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They add, “It felt really important to help genderqueer performers find their feet. And me being a slightly divisive figure means that there’ll be a bit of fuss made — and hopefully it will draw attention.”
“My work exists on that platform, so my open letter is pretty plain how I felt about being dragged into this as some sort of offset,” the comedian says about their 2021 message to Sarandos. “But if you’re going to change the conversation, you have to be a part of it. You can’t take yourself out of it. So I decided that this is my best guess of how to take my angry words and roll them into something constructive.”
“It’s open to people from disadvantaged backgrounds, lower socioeconomic backgrounds, which are voices we need,” they explain. “At my level, we are just skating around the globe - living in a sort of a success bubble. So it felt really important for me to have these people up here who are still sort of living in this so-called real world… It’s really difficult for genderqueer performers to find safe spaces on stage.”
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“I can’t be sure what does anything anymore, but I just think someone standing in front of a group of people is a powerful act,” they say. “I think people speaking for themselves, wrapping their own voices around their own words and their own experience and delivering that in a live space is a potent formula.”
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