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The IN Mag #6 

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SISTERHOOD is a new film chronicling the lives of San Franciso's transgender community | HUNGER TV

With the emergence of films like Tangerine, the success of actresses like Laverne Cox of Orange Is The New Black, Hari Nef's L'Oreal campaign and Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair cover, the transgender community was befitted a moment of hyper-visibility over the last few years. The 'T' in LGBT was made bolder than ever.

TV shows like Transparent and films like Tangerine are bringing transgender stories into the mainstream - how do you feel about this kind of visibility? how would you like to see it change in 2017?

JOAN: I’m really happy you brought this up as I have a funny story I want to preface with. My script became available to my entire crew months before we begun shooting. I wanted everyone to have a chance to read it, digest it and understand what they were going to be working on. I did that because my film is a little bit challenging – it shows trans women, not as these perfect goddesses of moral virture but as really complicated individuals (everybody in the world is a complicated individual). I feel like a lot of times, with a lot of the shows coming out I’m seeing more of that representation allowing us to be complicated. And so there are some things which people might look sideways at or feel some type of way about and I wanted everyone to be on the same page. I received a scathing email from someone I hired – it boiled down to “you are misrepresenting the transgender community. You are going to regret putting this movie out because it doesn’t show Transgender people in a nice light”. I almost felt like I’d been punched in the stomach as I’d never had somebody tell me that before. I had to sit with it for a day “why am I making this movie? Why did I write my characters as challenging or not always likeable?” I eventually came to the realisation that if I am not allowed to be complicated, or have flaws then there’s really no point to being a film-maker. It always boils down to let us be who we are, that’s as complex as it’s ever going to get.

So with films like Tangerine and TV shows like Transparent, I think it’s really nice – in Tangerine for instance they allowed those characters to be sex workers because that is the reality for a lot of women in Los Angeles and I’m glad they didn’t choose to gloss over the harder parts whilst still allowing these women to be fully realized human beings – they had hopes, dreams and ambitions and they were allowed to explore that whilst living through their reality as sex workers.

With hyper-visibiltiy I feel it comes down to a question of whether this exposure really benefits us or not. Caitlyn Jenner, for example, she came out in the last couple of years and she is ostensibly the most well-known trans woman in the whole world right now. She was afforded a platform that no-one else was able to reach yet. But, I want to investigate how she benefitted us, is this hyper-visibility doing anything positive for us?

When Caitlyn Jenner came out I had people approach me, again at work, and ask if I saw her interview. It was as if now they had a famous face to put trans-ness on it was a hallpass to clock this transwoman at her day job and ask her all about it, with zero respect for social boundaries.

Caitlyn Jenner came out and tore the curtain wide open without really thinking about how it may affect the rest of us. And she doesn’t have to. She has her own life and I would never stop her from living how she want to, but I think people need to realize that there are still some of us at the bottom who have to deal with the visibility and people suddenly peering into our community.

So hyper-visibility isn’t inherently a positive thing.

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'Housewives' Star Dolores Catania Says She's on Ozempic 'Bandwagon' Jackie Goldschneider told us as much!Real Housewives of New Jersey star Dolores Catania revealed on Watch What Happens Live that she's on the Ozempic "bandwagon," and most of her co-stars are also on the controversial diabetes-medication-turned-weight-loss-fad. During last night's episode, she also told host Andy Cohen, "I wasn’t going to come to the reunion looking any bigger than anyone else, so I got on the bandwagon."During the after show, she clarified that she's been on Ozempic alternative Mounjaro for six weeks. Real Housewives of Miami star Marysol Patton interjected that Mounjaro is "the amped-up version," like a "fast forward" pill to "Skinnyville." Catania also exclaimed during the interview: "I tell the truth!" Related | 'Housewives' Star Jackie Goldschneider Says Ozempic Has Taken Over the CastThe revelation comes after months of speculation about the usage of controversial weight loss medications like Ozempic and Mounjaro across the Real Housewives universe. In February, Jackie Goldschneider told Page Six that she was "very, very scared for what will happen if and when people have to go off this drug." "You start dropping massive amounts of weight, that's so addicting. I mean, that’s how I spiraled into anorexia. You get addicted to this new body, and to the attention that comes with it. Number one it's a scary drug because it's not studied for this. You know? There's no studies on what it does to bodies without diabetes."In that same interview, she claimed that "a lot of friends" were on the different drugs, specifically in orbit around the Real Housewives of New Jersey. "I'm not saying anyone in particular is on it, it's just people I know are on it, and for me, it was like I looked up to some people as people who had a very normal relationship with food, and now they don't."Other Real Housewives stars like Kyle Richards and Margaret Josephs have also been roped into accusations of Ozempic use, which Richards has rebuffed. In an interview with People on Tuesday, Josephs attributed her rapid weight loss to peptide and hormone therapy. Semaglutide, a Glucagon-like Peptide-1 receptor agonist, is used in weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus. It's unclear if the peptide therapy in Josephs' "treatments" were linked to the controversial new drugs. Elsewhere this week, Sophie Turner took to Instagram Stories to blast Ozempic ads in New York City subway stations. Over a tweet showing pics of the new ads, Turner wrote "WTF." \u201cThe ozempic ads plastered across the Times Square subway station can fuck all the way off.\u201d — Sophie Vershbow (@Sophie Vershbow) 1680471666 Photo via Bravo/Getty https://www.papermag.com/real-housewives-dolores-catania-ozempic-2659742448.html

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Wait, Lukas Gage and Chris Appleton Are Engaged? Perhaps I haven't had enough Red Bull for this: Lukas Gage and Chris Appleton are allegedly engaged!The two lovebirds are rumored to have popped the question, thanks in part to nefarious little tipsters that spoke with Us Weekly and Just Jared. According to the former's sources, "They’re not telling the public yet, but they have told friends they are engaged. They got engaged before they even had rings and then went to pick them out together.” Not much else is given on the engagement, except that "Friends think they are a great couple. Even though they moved very quickly, everyone around them is very excited about their relationship.” If the friends who sell stories about them won't spill the beans, let's see if their Instagram accounts have anything to reveal about this supposed tryst.In his most recent post from Tuesday, Appleton posted outtakes from his L'Officiel Arabia shoot. In the comments, Gage wrote: "Take me out!!! 😍" Not much in the way of clues. See on Instagram Earlier this week, Appleton also shared snaps from the apparent awards ceremony where he won Celebrity Hairdresser of the Year. Underneath, Gage quipped: "U r the best ever🔥" In response, Appleton wrote, "we the best babe." Still no clues, but the romance between them is obviously white hot. A man who's almost 40 doesn't reply to Instagram comments unless he's seriously in love! See on Instagram Gage's Instagram is a bit more revealing. After Gage posted a picture of his new dog, Appleton wrote: "He's a beauty." Gage, in turn, replied that it was "our genes." If I didn't believe they were engaged before, I definitely do now. See on Instagram For the record, these two were linked after they posted a set of photos from Mexico together. Gage later hung out with Appleton's daughter, which only deepened the mystery, until Appleton outright told Drew Barrymore they were "very much in love." \u201cHere's to love! \ud83d\udc9b Celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton spills on his new relationship with @lukasgage.\u201d — The Drew Barrymore Show (@The Drew Barrymore Show) 1678905729 Photo via Stefanie Keenan/Getty https://www.papermag.com/lukas-gage-chris-appleton-engagement-2659742061.html