{"id":30132,"date":"2023-08-06T03:45:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T03:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/06\/talk-to-me-banned-in-kuwait-over-inclusion-of-trans-actor\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T03:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T03:45:34","slug":"talk-to-me-banned-in-kuwait-over-inclusion-of-trans-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/06\/talk-to-me-banned-in-kuwait-over-inclusion-of-trans-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Talk to Me\u2019 Banned in Kuwait Over Inclusion of Trans Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Talk to Me\u2019 Banned in Kuwait Over Star Zoe Terakes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pkwy4JLuQI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/pkwy4JLuQI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THR\/status\/1687485027989237760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">August 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kuwait has banned a24\u2019s horror film \u2018Talk to Me\u2019 due to the inclusion of one of its stars Zoe Terakes, who identifies as nonbinary and trans masculine and recently got top surgery. <\/p>\n<p>Zoe\u2019s gender identity is not referenced at all in the film; Terakes wrote \u201cOur film doesn&#8217;t actually ever mention my transness, or my queerness. I am a trans actor who happened to get the role. I&#8217;m not a theme. I&#8217;m a person. Kuwait has banned this film due to my identity alone. Reportedly, this is a first. This is a new precedent. It is targeted and dehumanising and means to harm us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THR\/status\/1687485027989237760?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CvlaNm4PF8U\/?img_index=2&amp;igshid=YmQ5MjYyNzNkNQ==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/126556845.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Talk to Me\u2019 Banned in Kuwait Over Star Zoe Terakes https:\/\/t.co\/pkwy4JLuQI \u2014 The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 4, 2023 Kuwait has banned a24\u2019s horror film \u2018Talk to Me\u2019 due to the inclusion of one of its stars Zoe Terakes, who identifies as nonbinary and trans masculine and recently got top surgery. Zoe\u2019s gender identity is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}