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This Is How You Do It: Leanne Alie

The Guilty Feminist

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Trans Joy in the Media

The media is very powerful and the more stories you see about a certain thing if you don't identify with that group you're going to automatically associate certain things with that group. And so if we're constantly just being fed these stories about black trauma we're just not being humanised. If that makes sense we're just kind of seen as a group that go through certain things and don't experience joy the same way that everybody else does. Symbathy is not the same as empathy. I do actually think that's really important because in journalism you can get so focused on everything that's going wrong in the world which isn't what the news always is or what it always should be.

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