shots Fired... with Laura Blake
Kicking off our July Taboo Focus, shots Culture Editor Amy Kean, talks to presenter, DJ, comedian, actor and Twitch streamer, Laura Blake, about her anger at going through the wrong puberty and why transgender people are "the last taboo".
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Amy Kean kicks off the shots Taboo Focus with her monthly shots Fired interview on which she talks to Laura Blake, best know as a Twitch streamer and the presenter of Twitch's 'mid-morning breakfast show'.
Over the course of the 15-minute conversation, Blake relays to Kean why she's angry about the fact that the word 'transgender' wasn't in her vocabulary before seven years ago, and wonders why the education system is not teaching kids more about "the queer alphabet".
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Being transgender is, Blake says, society's "last taboo" and while she's not always happy to be transgender, she is happy that she's free to be who she is; "I don't know what the sales pitch is for being trans, but no one's given me a good one yet," she says in this candid interview.
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