Written with dazzling creativity and exuberance, The All of It is a wild coming-of-gender memoir like no other. She was going to experience the all of it. Choosing to live was just the beginning what mattered was how she existed. It would mean leaving behind a rural Mudgee childhood filled with Frogger, hot chips, Godliness and a forbidden love of Sarah Parker’s My Little Pony and the violence, drugs and secrecy that plagued her twenties. Becoming Cadance would be more than a gender transition. He decided to change everything – starting with the Ben bit. Days passed by in a haze of marijuana smoke and self-loathing. Seven years ago, Ben was loveless, overweight, in debt and living in his parents’ rumpus room, trying to find a way to quietly die. I'm beyond thrilled to reveal the cover of my upcoming memoir with Penguin Random House - The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody, releasing July 5 in all good bookstores, audiobook and eBook!Ī heart-warming, heart-breaking and heart-stopping coming-of-gender memoir Sound mix, colour grade, online edit: Chris Mylrae
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Producers: David Elliot-Jones, Cadance BellĬinematographers: Charles Alexander, Daniel Gallagher, Sky Davies, Gianna Mazzeo, Han Palmer, Flick Smith If you are in Auckland on Saturday 18 June, I would love to see you there at the screening. Thank you to Amaze and the Royal Children's Gender Service for being a sounding board for us along the way.Īnd of course I will be forever thankful to Aether, Anthea and the family for inviting me into your lives, and sharing both your triumphs and your challenges with the world so that the path might be made easier for other autistic and transgender young people.
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Thank you to those who generously donated to our crowdfunding campaigns, and Doc Edge, Screen Australia, VicScreen, Pride Foundation, Pride Foundation Jessbyte Foundation for their support. A special shout out to Charles Alexander and Greta Robenstone who have been with me on this from the beginning. Thank you to my producers David Elliot-Jones and Cadance Bell who have been behind-the-scenes helping me get this film funded and made, and the cinematographers, editors, animator, composer and designer who helped this all come together. Throughout I have been constantly inspired by his creativity, resilience and vulnerability. Since 2019, joined by some incredible filmmakers, I embedded with Aether (formerly Charlie) and his family to capture their journey over three years. The film follows an autistic and transgender teen, as he learns to be himself and find the support he needs with the help of his own original animated characters. just doesn't seem enough to describe how I'm feeling about the premiere of WHO I AM. Saying I'm excited, grateful, humbled, nervous etc. WHO I AM DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE IN AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, 18 JUNE AT Doc Edge your body is the engine through which all else is possible, and it deserves care. It has a network of passionate and loving medical professionals, forged by the same passion: to care for women!īorn in protest, arrived with love and having changed the lives of the countless, I could not be more excited to throw my support behind Jean Hailes' legacy and Women's Health Week.īecause who gives a stuff if you're trans or cis or gay or straight or a fatty or a skinny or even if you don't like pineapple on a pizza. Today, the organisation treats ALL women for ALL reasons.
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So I became the first trans woman to be a Champion for Women's Health Week.ĭr Jean Hailes, who the whole shebang is named after, was a legend! Full burrito, this one! At a time when doctors were waving away middle-aged women the country over, dismissing their pain and discomfort as "minor", DJH called bullshit on the lot of them and founded Australia's first menopause clinic (and the second in the world).Īnd let me tell you - I know a thing or two about hormones stuffing up your life! When I was first approached about becoming a champion for women's health, my first reaction was "Me? A fat trans chick?! You've gotta be kidding!" Their other champions include literary hero Tara Moss, Melissa Doyle and Ita Buttrose (among other amazing women - all of them cis!).īut then I met the passionate people at Jean Hailes for Women's Health and I learned of their mission and the history of the organisation and I was blown away! Surprise - I'm becoming one of the official faces of Women's Health Week! (No, really - read on!)