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Jen Richards (@smartassjen) and Daniela Vega in flashback scenes from Netflix's continuation of the series Armisted Maupin's Tales Of The City. Richards plays the younger version of Anna Madrigal (kinda sorta like Richards in the short Swim) while Vega portrays Ysela. Netflix via IndieWire

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Angelica Ross at the red carpet premiere for the new TNT cable dramedy Claws, starring Niecy Nash (The Soul Man, Clean House!) and executive-produced by Rashida Jones (Angie Tribeca, Our Idiot Brother). Ross appears for the third time tonight as Relevance in the show about a woman who runs a nail salon (where Karrueche Tran plays an actual Vietnamese-American nail artist) that launders drug money from a pain management clinic next door which serves as a front for the Dixie Mafia (as seen in Justified). Ross previously guest-starred last month with former roommate Jen Richards on Laverne Cox's cancelled legal drama Doubt. Claws show airs Sundays on TNT at 10 pm ET/PT, ending the season next week (it has been renewed for a second season). Via Zimbio

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Listing for a panel discussion at the Los Angeles Film Festival (#LAFF) tomorrow afternoon at the Kirk DOUGLAS! Theatre, 9820 Washington Blvd. in Culver City (near the old Westwood One Radio studios, home of Tom Leykis), free to the public. And it’s moderated by everyone’s favourite Whovian from the Arch City, @rileysilverman. (And Swim is the short where Jen Richards shares the lead with a cis actor.) There’s also the 6 pm panel “The Other: Documenting Marginalized Stories,” featuring panelist Sydney Freeland (director of Her Story and the Sasheer Zamara vehicle Deidra & Laney Rob a Train), while Silverman’s podcaster friend Guy Branum (Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell) will be in the 8 pm discussion “Reclaiming Gay for Pay: What it Means to be ‘Out’ in Hollywood” (attention @gayforplay). Or you can go protest at the Arclight Cinema in Santa Monica when Anything opens…

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Hayden Panettiere (Juliette Barnes) and Jen Richards (Allyson del Rio), CMT cable network’s Nashville. Richards, co-founder of the We Happy Trans and Trans 100 projects and the mastermind behind the Emmy-nominated Her Story, is the first trans actor with a regular role on the cable channel. Via NewNowNext (which like Country Music Television is part of MTV Networks) @jenrichards

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I was in my own kind of accident, not exactly like yours but I know what it’s like to be in such a hurry to heal your body. You forget that your soul needs to heal too.

Allyson Del Lago (Jen Richards) to Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettierre), episode entitled "Leap of Faith," Nashville, 19 Jan. 2017. The ep featured a cameo by the actual mayor of Nashville, Megan Barry. Panettierre once played the daughter of a trans woman (Tom Wilkinson in transface) in the HBO film Normal. Via NewNowNext

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Cecilia Chung of the National Transgender Law Center and Broadway actress Ivory Aquino at New York City Pride, June 2016. Chung was the Grand Marshal of the parade; Aquino, who offically came out as trans pinay earlier in January 2017, portrays Chung in Dustin Lance Black's mini-series When We Rise, based on Cleve Jones' memoir. The series debuts on ABC-TV in February 2017. Via @boysinthesun on Instagram (he's an employee of @Razorfish who also photographed Bob The Drag Queen at Pride), Getty Images

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See every product in Caitlyn Jenner's new MAC collection

SOAPBOX SATURDAY CONTINUES:

Hot on the heels of her limited-edition lipstick partnership with MAC, Caitlyn Jenner is now fronting an entire collection for the make-up brand. MAC released the first campaign image of the 67-year-old transgender reality star earlier today. In it, Caitlyn wears a low-cut gold dress that shows off her cleavage. On one side, a strap falls halfway down her shoulder, while her long, wavy brown hair cascades down the other. Her eyes are closed, highlighting her shimmering, gilded lids and long lashes, and a wash of red makes her lips pop. The make-up, of course, is all part of the 15-piece line that will be available in stores and on maccosmetics.com January 5. According to a statement from the brand, 'Caitlyn Jenner has fearlessly shared her transition with the world, and her new MAC collection continues that mission, proudly championing all ages, all races, and all sexes. 'Elegant, classic shades for lips, eyes and cheeks are beautifully suited for those who embrace life, in whatever form they choose.' The sentiment is an extension of the one Caitlyn and MAC created when they launched her Finally Free lipstick last February. One hundred percent of the selling price of it went to the MAC AIDS Fund Transgender Initiative. In October, Caityln tweeted that $1.3M from it had been donated to 21 trans organizations throughout the US. In an interview with MAC at the time of the launch, Caitlyn talked about why she decided to do the line: 'MAC was the first to come to me, and a company, I realized, would really make a big commitment.' she said...

Never mind the magic of HRT+implants; check out the prices for her products (which is why I linked to this version of the story)! So is this how she'll supplement her income to make up for the cancellation of I Am Cait? It appears that none of the profits from her line, other than the one-off lipstick last year, are going to LGBTQ charities, so if I had the cash money I'll stick with the line promoted by Jen Richards and Silas Howard, thank you very much.

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I share a modified version of this famous old tweet as a reminder that women’s positivity does not require any negative statements about men that are easily open to challenge. Women’s positive qualities shine brightly, without any hindrance from the light of brilliant men and other brilliant folks who aren’t women. I understand why the original tweet had its Zeitgeist, but people really need to move on from the zero-sum mindset and the anti-male undercurrents that have long circulated in leftist spaces. The fact that patriarchy dominates society is not an excuse for toxic non sequiturs in progressive circles.