Dear Mamma: a transgender man, his mother and their journey in letters
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
- When Naissa tells his mother Daniela that he identifies as a trans man she struggles to understand.
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Through candid personal letters exchanged over three years, Dear Mamma follows Naissa as he stands firmly for his independence and identity, and Daniela as she wrestles with her fear of losing a child. As Naissa embarks on his professional dance career and proudly embodies his gender, his mother also embarks on a journey of understanding and acceptance of her son’s choices
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Thank you Daniela and Naissa for sharing such a tender, complex and challenging chapter in your relationship. Such bravery and honesty. Showing it's still possible to communicate and love throughout pain and loss. Thank you to all those involved in bringing this documentary to the world. I'm sure it will resonate far and wide, comfort and inspire.
So moving. Through all the pain, there is love and eloquence and respect.
Such a moving and sensitively told powerful story. A beautifully shot documentary dance film, showing deep tenderness and the loving and painful bond between parent and child. Naissa’s dancing, exquisite and essential. A dance from the inside, it is clear. Bravo to all involved in making this short film.
Beautiful and moving film
Lovely documentary and very moving 💕
Beautiful and open film, thank you for sharing part of your journeys ❤
2:38 What an absolutely beautiful thing to write as a mother, so full of compassion ❤
Such honesty, hearfelt pain and intense love. Thank you for making and sharing this. Truely wonderful. Hoping the the continued journey brings you both and others in this situation joy as we grow in understanding of these matters. Wow, im still wiping away the tears not of sadness or joy but tears a mother cries for the love of her child.
I somewhat expected an issue of language to arise. Italian is a romance language and has no gender neutral terms for child or baby. Mamma has to choose whether to continue to call Naissa her daughter or switch and call her child…son. I noticed the switch because she did so while speaking English but I wonder about the thought process. Best wishes to both.
Moving, brave and honest. Thank you Scarabeus for this beautiful film.
That was beautiful
She's broken
Lovely video on such a crucial topic 💜
Crucial for parents to be aware of so they can protect their children
Yup, protect them by empowering them to choose what's right for them, by caring about their wants and needs, by supporting them throughout
I am so curious about the discussion in 10-15 years!
Such a fundamental inner knowing beyond all explanation 'I have always been here'. This is beautiful and so poetic and so honest.
Beautifully directed film.
Beautiful and powerful, I am glad for them both.
This is so extremely beautiful to watch and the letters are deeply touching. And there is love.
That was excellent and ultimately joyful.
Wonderful. Beautiful creation. Superbly executed, congratulations ❤
Such a sensitive and beautiful film. Mother and son are so courageous and loving in their letters and in sharing their journey with us.
The Guardian, nice video keep up the amazing work
Very well produced piece of art. Very touching. Deserves an award
❤ Being a human is a very complicated experience. We all have this in common.
Comment section about to be lit 🍿
Strap in for the ride!
Doubt it. Guardian views are low. Plus, most of the heat is on male-to-female. As many point out, ironically, women transitioning isn't that much of an issue.
@@AminTheMystic Women, for the most part, pose no threat to Men's spaces, nor do they generally pose a physical threat, nor do they commit the vast, vast majority of violence and sexual crime in societies across the globe. Transmen are not entering Mens sport outside of a few individuals - compare that to the number of boys and men now competing in Womens and girls sport across all age ranges and ability. Women's single sex spaces exist due to a need for many, many Women to have privacy and seclusion from Men for any number of reasons that don't need to be justified. Men's single sex spaces are not threatened by Women entering them, so there is clear context available when addressing the differences in how TW and TM are scrutinised in relation to Womens rights and spaces specifically.
"Feminists" have dropped the ball big time@@AminTheMystic
Beautiful.
Beautifully Narrated. Wow !
This was so beautiful. You are both so strong. My best wishes to you both, especially you, Naissa, as you negotiate what has become an increasingly myopic world 💕✨️
The journey should be at least, at minimum 18 years.
I think this is a very personal, individual journey and an arbitrary age limit cannot be assigned.
Great dance to autechre
Beautiful💟
hits too deep
Well told and Beautiful .
Yeah as long as it's your children and not mine this affects then it's fine.
So beautiful. ♥️🌹
The size of gametes you produce is not inextricably tied to your brain sex:
The size of gametes your gonads will produce is set at 6-7 weeks,
Your brain, on the other hand, continues to be sexed by washes of hormones both pre and post nataly. These washes can be triggered by genetics, environmental chemicals, viruses, disease, stress, etc etc
This biological sexing or gendering of the brain creates your innate sex and sexuality and may not match the small minded expectations of others in your species that only look at gametes (like that was ever a thing in the first place!)
What does 'brain sex' mean?
Also can you explain why this brain sex is expressed by regressive misoginist tropes of what being a 'man' or 'woman' is?
The ending is so spiritual which is quite apt when discussing gender given its similarity to religious belief systems, eh.
How is gender at all similar to religion? You don't believe in the fact you have a set of balls, it's the way you are born
You're not born a man, you become a man. That's some heavy philosophical shit right there!
Completely wrong tho 😂
What a poor deluded woman. This is tragic.
Why don't you mind your own business. This doesn't concern you.
Nature versus nurture. These things are taught not learned.
Humans are way too self involved.
So prove the way you behave, your desires, your choices are all natural or just another product of nurture/indoctrination...
If you cannot do this, i'd keep your opinion hole firmly closed.
The size of gametes you produce is not inextricably tied to your brain sex:
The size of gametes your gonads will produce is set at 6-7 weeks,
Your brain, on the other hand, continues to be sexed by washes of hormones both pre and post nataly. These washes can be triggered by genetics, environmental chemicals, viruses, disease, stress, etc etc
This biological sexing or gendering of the brain creates your innate identity and may not match the small minded expectations of others in your species.
To me, he comes across as someone wealthy, compsred to the rest of the world, isolated and cloistered.
His symbolic, freeing walk towards the sea reminds me of those who accept a new religion. The problem is, however, some of them change their minds.
This is how you feel now. Was it the actual gender that kept you in shackles or was your gender the target with which you could escape what was bothering you deep down? Only you will know! Only time will tell!
Regardless, you live one life! If this is how you feel, if this gives you a better life, then rock it better than anyone in history. If you ever feel that you need to change, not a problem. Right now, at this moment, with your current knowledge, you saw this as the right choice. Rock it
To me, you are a 'he' and I will respect your decision in every aspect
We never know what the next day will bring, fluidity is part of life. If we were all less caught up in the rigidity and seriousness of gender, maybe it would be easier for people and it wouldn't matter so much if you did decide to change. There is nothing wrong with changing one's mind - it's called personal growth.
..... Ummmm.... Let me guess, she has a vegetarian dog too?
Let me guess... KenGray is as stupid as they come? Rgr
This is a response to early childhoid trauma and the desire to celebrate internalized disdane rips my heart out
Broken female.
Sometimes, denying is greater than accepting. Time will reveal the answer. The tragedy is that there is no going back.
@DeTerreauConscience-1- Exactly
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So beautiful. ♥️🌹