Connection | Isolation (2024) // Trans Lives On-Screen

In an airborne pandemic when separation, isolation, and self-sufficiency became the punishing norm, many trans people faced the COVID-19 era differently. Connection|Isolation presents eight portraits of trans, post-gender, and genderqueer people who share their experiences of cultivating communityin this pandemic. These trans community creators foreground how Asian Americans face escalating violent racism during the pandemic, how Black Americans and allies rose in opposition to white supremacist police-state violence in 2020, and the exclusion disabled people feel from a society that—despite grave and massive loss—refuses basic protections.

Host or Publisher Stray Cat Film Center