I was worried about seeing I Saw The TV Glow. I thought it might be a little intense for me.
I was fucking right. That movie is a visceral depiction of how growing up trans fem in the 90s felt, and it vivisected my heart in fingernail-sized chunks for an hour and forty minutes. I spent the first three quarters of that ALSO feeling like someone behind me was winding up the world's heaviest sledgehammer blow for the back of my head, and having finished the movie now I can't tell you if it's better or worse that that blow never landed.
I'm so grateful to be on this side of the TV glow, and so, so scared for anyone on the other side of it.
