Realness: Part One & Two
“Tika is in the process of becoming a man. Together with her girlfriend Nicki filmmaker David Barclay Moore lets the audience in on Tika’s transitioning while discussing views on black male privilege. Here we see a casual and intimate portrayal of a relationship confronting the very essence of the value of appearing male. Tika confesses that she is treated more equally, assertively, as a man while Nicki ultimately expresses some misgivings on the effect of the newly injected testosterone in their relationship. Is Tika right? Are black men coddled by traditional structures of family and relationships?”
An interesting documentary on an African American FTM. My girlfriend alerted me that it’s screening tomorrow at the Queer Black Cinema Film Festival tomorrow night here in New York. Alas, I’m throwing a Fall dinner/Brown Ale pairing then and will miss it, but I’m glad I found this video online.
Tiq Milan might be familiar to some since he was featured on that MTV show “I’m From Rolling Stone” pre-T and in a photo shoot from the Trans issue of Out Magazine a couple years back. Not surprisingly, he was the only person of color in the entire issue.
**Disclaimer: They only use female pronouns to refer to him.
