This is what Disney has deleted from Pixar's Win or Lose. This beautiful, moving, relatable sequence that would've meant so much to so many kids for years to come was not worth the risk of controversy to them.
Trans art is being censored. Our stories are being erased.
Leaked storyboard animatic from a deleted storyline in the upcoming Pixar Disney+ series Win or Lose. The animatic depicts Kai, a transgender teen baseball player, nervously deliberating which gendered bathroom to use. After oblivious encouragement from a friend, she enters the ladies', and after another friend compliments her headband, she looks in the mirror feeling euphoric and happy. Then a little girl with a cast enters and struggles to use the tap. Kai helps, but then starts feeling overwhelmed with fear and dysphoria (depicted as her reflection transforming into Picasso-esque cubism, and then into a male bathroom sign stick figure) as the little girl looks confused by her voice. She runs out of the bathroom and hides. Her father calls her on her cell phone, and after calling her "son", her face is shown as shattering and falling on the ground. Finally, Coach Dan, her baseball coach, comes and sits with her, and gives her a reassuring and supportive pep talk. They exchange a secret handshake fist bump.
Leaked storyboard animatic from a deleted storyline in the upcoming Pixar Disney+ series Win or Lose. The animatic depicts Kai, a transgender teen baseball player, nervously deliberating which gendered bathroom to use. After oblivious encouragement from a friend, she enters the ladies', and after another friend compliments her headband, she looks in the mirror feeling euphoric and happy. Then a little girl with a cast enters and struggles to use the tap. Kai helps, but then starts feeling overwhelmed with fear and dysphoria (depicted as her reflection transforming into Picasso-esque cubism, and then into a male bathroom sign stick figure) as the little girl looks confused by her voice. She runs out of the bathroom and hides. Her father calls her on her cell phone, and after calling her "son", her face is shown as shattering and falling on the ground. Finally, Coach Dan, her baseball coach, comes and sits with her, and gives her a reassuring and supportive pep talk. They exchange a secret handshake fist bump.
@tage teaches in the Cybersecurity program and Web & Software programs at Western Technical College, and I had great fun interviewing him about the interesting challenges in this career path over time, and especially in the age of AI. After listening, if you like Tage, and you like Disney, check out his two podcasts DLWeekly and Hub Crawl! In other news, I met him on Mastodon, how fun is that?
En france, devant l' #urgenceclimatique, une étude a été lancée par le #gouvernement pour savoir si les #Irène sont capables de réguler leur température. Quelle réactivité ! On est dans du lourd .. 😪
"Exculpate" is a word I really need to remember more in English. Sometimes I want the sense of "disculparse" and "unguilt" doesn't exist in English.
I was talking about the great contrast between the hooded figures singing "mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa" and Frollo saying "it's not my fault" in "Hellfire".
They say "mea culpa" while he tries to deny his culpability.
This is what Disney has deleted from Pixar's Win or Lose. This beautiful, moving, relatable sequence that would've meant so much to so many kids for years to come was not worth the risk of controversy to them.
Trans art is being censored. Our stories are being erased.
Leaked storyboard animatic from a deleted storyline in the upcoming Pixar Disney+ series Win or Lose. The animatic depicts Kai, a transgender teen baseball player, nervously deliberating which gendered bathroom to use. After oblivious encouragement from a friend, she enters the ladies', and after another friend compliments her headband, she looks in the mirror feeling euphoric and happy. Then a little girl with a cast enters and struggles to use the tap. Kai helps, but then starts feeling overwhelmed with fear and dysphoria (depicted as her reflection transforming into Picasso-esque cubism, and then into a male bathroom sign stick figure) as the little girl looks confused by her voice. She runs out of the bathroom and hides. Her father calls her on her cell phone, and after calling her "son", her face is shown as shattering and falling on the ground. Finally, Coach Dan, her baseball coach, comes and sits with her, and gives her a reassuring and supportive pep talk. They exchange a secret handshake fist bump.
Leaked storyboard animatic from a deleted storyline in the upcoming Pixar Disney+ series Win or Lose. The animatic depicts Kai, a transgender teen baseball player, nervously deliberating which gendered bathroom to use. After oblivious encouragement from a friend, she enters the ladies', and after another friend compliments her headband, she looks in the mirror feeling euphoric and happy. Then a little girl with a cast enters and struggles to use the tap. Kai helps, but then starts feeling overwhelmed with fear and dysphoria (depicted as her reflection transforming into Picasso-esque cubism, and then into a male bathroom sign stick figure) as the little girl looks confused by her voice. She runs out of the bathroom and hides. Her father calls her on her cell phone, and after calling her "son", her face is shown as shattering and falling on the ground. Finally, Coach Dan, her baseball coach, comes and sits with her, and gives her a reassuring and supportive pep talk. They exchange a secret handshake fist bump.