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Switch: A
Community in Transition
A documentary film by Brooks Nelson
Switch,
A community in transition is a documentary about a progressive, multicultural community and the response of
the community to a member’s changing gender expression. The basic premise of this film is that it is not the individual
that transitions, but the community. Many transgendered and transsexual people are not making a switch from ONE to
ANOTHER ONE, but rather switching their position on a continuum for a different position. The switch, culturally, is
for the people around them not necessarily for themselves. Not the binary “off” and “on” of a
light switch, or the dualistic nature of the concepts of male and female, but switch as in the subtle substitution of one
for another … switch this for that. Exchange. A transgendered person could argue nothing is switching for them, only a curtain
pulled back to reveal a different, more true self. They are not changing anything, but aligning for themselves what has
always been true. Switch: a
Community in Transition provides a venue for main stream audiences to experience first-hand how one particular
community responds to movement on the gender line, shifting notions of male and female, trans, transsexuals, gender-queer
and gender-other. With a TRT of less than one hour it is designed to be a teaching tool and will have has a developed
curriculum and discussion questions to accompany the DVD.
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