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In case you missed it, here’s the moment when three trans women, played by three out trans actresses, casually chatting over lunch, appeared on a prime-time drama on the single biggest television network in the U.S.

Doubt (CBS) was revolutionary in having a trans lead, played by Laverne Cox, but they also had a trans woman in the writer’s room (Imogen Binnie), and trans actors, like myself and Angelica Ross in the scene above, and Alexandra Grey in the following episode (who gives a devastating and powerful must-see performance).

This level of attentiveness was largely due to the creators/showrunners, Joan Rater & Tony Phelan, having a trans son, the actor Tom Phelan. For Joan & Tony, trans people weren’t “other”, they weren’t punchlines, they didn’t exist just as metaphors, or props to trigger male anxieties. They’re real people, whole and complicated people with rich lives that can’t be reduced to the single facet “trans”.

Three friends having lunch and talking over boy trouble, in public, in daylight. This is how we come out of the shadows.

RIP Doubt; long live the team behind it.

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Start reblogging the money blessings post…

If you haven’t already done it…. Go hit that reblog button. Do what you have to, just do that too.

Like seriously. Just find one and reblog it real quick. I post a couple yesterday and put into the universe that I actually wanted it

Only been at work for a couple and I get this at as a tip! (tips ain’t normal at ALL in here)

Come on now!!

Let it work for y’all too

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Cheese all thru this mf 😂😂😂😂

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i’m pretty that everyone familiar with these movies has thought about this at least once

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kissing is so underrated, I could just lie in bed and kiss all day

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say aah

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Wiz Khalifa does Adele’s ‘Hello’ with a twist

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Deposit $1000 in my bank account & I'll send u a nude

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when people say my name im like.   cant believe i exist

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Is he for real 😳 Like damn ✊🏿 Black Excellence

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me: *moving the camera around my character, checking them out*

my character: 

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She had style, she had flair, she was THERE. THAT’S how she became The Nanny™

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me*suddenly is very very sad* me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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There’s a difference between being happy and being distracted from sadness

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10 mins before it’s time to clock out