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It’s like the writers and producers sat around and said, “Let’s put all the most f*cked up recent cultural references in one season and be the most forward, innovative, social justice show out there!” It’s literally the exploitation and voyeurism of our pain on a platter for the world to gawk at and consume.

When a young girl wanted to know if waitress Liv Hnilicka was a boy or a girl, her father didn’t want to answer. Who was he to say?

When trans woman Viviany Belebony, 26, shocked the Brazilian public in the beginning of June by parading in São Paulo LGBT Pride as a bloody, naked version of crucified Jesus Christ, an extremely conservative public claimed blasphemy.

Picture the most heinous lies anyone could tell about you, but done publicly, in a way that will never disappear.

Picture the most heinous lies anyone could tell about you, but done publicly, in a way that will never disappear.