WGST 220 Lecture Notes - Post-Structuralism, Rae Spoon, Wgst

• School: U of S
• Department: Womens and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 220
• Professor: Rachel Loewen Walker

Document Summary

My prairie home: a 2013 canadian documentary film about transgender singer/songwriter rae spoon, directed by chelsea mcmullan. Spoon"s troubled childhood, raised by pentecostal parents obsessed with the rapture and an abusive father, as well as spoon"s past experiences with gender confusion. The film was shot in the canadian prairies, including the royal tyrrell museum of. Paleontology in drumheller: film opens with rae spoon in a dinner singing and goes into a story from the past. About a concert and the experiences dragging on being told it"s how heaven will be yourself: flash forward to rae spoon preforming. Talking about growing up on stage -- bridging a gap between people riding a bus -- meditation -- remaining calm and becoming one with: questioning about sexuality and gender. Initially thought they was a lesbian, until they moved and met transgender. Individuals for the first time, that"s when they realized they are f-m. Everyone makes choices everyday about what to reveal about themselves.