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- The story of Brandon’s last days was told in the 1999 movie Boys Don’t Cry, cowritten and directed by Kimberly Peirce ’96SOA.
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Dec 12, 2019 · Their chief concerns were that Swank and Peirce are cisgender (Peirce identifies as genderqueer), and that the film’s graphic depiction of violence was exploitative of trans people.
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Jun 15, 2020 · The story of Brandon’s last days was told in the 1999 movie Boys Don’t Cry, cowritten and directed by Kimberly Peirce ’96SOA. The film challenged sensibilities and pushed viewers into new moral territory, while achieving an artistic unity rarely seen in a debut.
Jun 15, 2024 · The film Boys Don't Cry came out 25 years ago. A lot has changed in trans representation since then. NPR's Scott Detrow discusses this with the film's director, Kimberly Pierce.
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Oct 23, 2019 · References to Jerry Springer appear all over the initial coverage of “Boys Don’t Cry.” Reviewers made note of how the story of Brandon Teena, the trans man whose life and death inspired Kimberly Peirce ’s film, was ready-made for an episode of that ’90s relic of trashy daytime television.
Oct 7, 2019 · And in 2016, a screening of Boys Don’t Cry and a visit from Peirce at Reed College was met with protests; she was accused of transphobia on account of casting a cisgender female (Swank) to play Brandon instead of a real trans woman.
Sep 9, 2019 · Peirce was working from an almost non-existent history of trans men on film, with the few examples of trans characters before and after Boys Don’t Cry predominantly being trans women. That we so eloquently got a portrait of a trans man with, if not an entirely healthy relationship to his masculinity, definitely the most secure of the men ...
Oct 21, 2019 · They were met with a harsh reception, recalls Kimberly Peirce, who directed and co-wrote Boys Don't Cry.
