May Leitz: Embracing Vulnerability, and the Freedom of Performance

When you come out as transgender, the freedom of Halloween is every single day. THIS WEEK: I talk to video essayist and host of youtube show Nyx Fears, May Leitz! We discuss the hell that is life in the DFW metroplex, what it's like coming out as trans to an existing fanbase, how she figured out her transness, how she navigates dysphoria, the ambiguities of identity and the challenges of articulation, where she got her name, what the heck a "woman" looks like, and how Halloween is basically Transgender Christmas. ALSO: A lengthy discussion about vulnerability and earnestness in online media criticism, particularly on youtube, and our problems with the over-valuation of "objective" criticism.

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Please watch May's coming out video "The Truth" right here, and follow the links below to all her other stuff.

YOUTUBE MAIN:Nyx Fears
YOUTUBE VLOG:May Leitz
TWITTER:@nyxfears
PATREON:Nyx Fears

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INTRO/OUTRO MUSIC is the Mii Channel Theme JAZZ COVER by insaneintherainmusic.

INTERSTITIAL MUSIC is Rosalina's Comet Theme JAZZ COVER by insaneintherainmusic.

COVER ART is by the wonderful Emilee Bumgarner.

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