sarah zedig! 🍉🐐

i can't believe i released this four years ago. the violent birth of my self as a trans woman, the symbolic beginning of who i am today. it's an exploration of the concept of "transitioning" from the perspective of a newly-out trans woman struggling to find her way from who she was before to who she will eventually become. this was so important to me back in 2018 because at the time there were so so so few firsthand accounts of the messy process of transitioning, what it meant, how it worked. everything was written by people who had already "transitioned," people who felt comfortable in their new selves. that's great and aspirational obviously but it didn't tell me anything about how to get there. "it gets better" only goes so far, you know?

the last two years especially have been so densely harrowing, it feels like i made transitioning decades ago. i'm still so immensely proud of this thing, man.

there's a lot of buzz about the video game Tunic what with game awards nominations and all, so hey: check out my feature-length video essay where i dive into its genealogy, its relationship with nostalgia for the zelda franchise, and what its deep lore might suggest about civilization. there's also a lot of stuff in there about why copyright law is bad and why nintendo needs to be Stopped. anyway give it a watch please thank you i put a lot of work into it