Contracts are important

It angers me that people who are already making a decent income as administrators, producers or videographers are bitching and moaning that I 'promised' a film that I didn't deliver.

Unlike the camera team knobs, as a writer I have the right to fight for a contract that is fair, remunerative and suits my goals. I didn't want to become an actor, and the very idea that my ability to sing and act was the reason I wasn't charged for my so-called crimes is deeply insulting, and could actually be seen as a form of blackmail if I could prove it.

I sincerely doubt that's true. The evidence wasn't strong enough for the Police to investigate, except for Chloe - where I provided surprising and humanising answers that surprised her team and their reductive assumptions about me - and they really are just blackmailing me.

My behaviour hasn't resulted in any form of police interview, so it's fair to say that VUW and the various wannabe producers in Wellington are simply wrong to continue to blame my bad behaviour on the lack of resolution of their demands when they are the ones that are behaving unprofessionally. -

Tory Whanau and many others have told me to detransition and play male roles in order to make money, but mostly because they have a problem with a trans person that is non-conforming and not just a guy that likes fashion. I transitioned because I wanted to be more like a woman and less like a man. Fairly sure I accomplished that goal. - The real truth is that none of those supposedly professional, legitimate people offered me a contract for the Weeded Out script that I wrote. I delivered a film that covered ALL the same ground, plus it was actually deeper, and more representative of NZ as a whole.

It was called The Dakumentary, and it just finished a small, but effective, run on Facebook. Contracts are important, Tory: your friends failed to offer one to me. They failed to make a cash offer to option the screenplay. They failed to pursue mediation or arbitration to strengthen their dubious and insulting claims of co-authorship, and to discuss the potential film with a lawyer or retired judge present. I begged them to attend mediation in 2024. They chose to lose, quite thoroughly, in the court of public opinion because they KNEW they would lose in mediation, but believed that their mana and public status were superior to mine. Turns out Wellington actually likes me more than Tory or Cass. They failed in their attempts to transform me into Franklin Shephard. They failed in their attempts to transform me into RuPaul.

They failed in their attempts to transform me into Don.

They failed in their attempts to transform me into Nomi from Sense8 (that's for Meesh). Btw I fucking love that RuPaul and Billy Porter and Mj Rodriguez think that I'm better than all the people that were on the Australasian version of RuPaul's Drag Race!

Now, I'm sure that when you became the Mayor of Wellington, you were offered a contract IRL, you negotiated that contract IRL, and you signed that contract IRL. Why was it 'fair' for me to get offers through back channels? Why was it 'fair' to harass me when I said that the IP wasn't available? Why was it 'fair' to refuse to pay me to revise the script? Why was it 'fair' to hold a hui where you told me to detransition? Why was it 'fair' to treat me as a sex offender when I wasn't charged? Oh, wait, cos I'm the retarded trannie savant! I'm so dumb, so unable to run my own life, yet so talented at music that it's Cassandra or Michelle or Tory's good fortune to exploit me and then pretend it's about integrating me to the community (the same community who believed I was a paedo that was flashing children, despite a lack of evidence). - That's how you saw me, and now you're discovering that I'm an adult human being that is actually able to shift the needle on public opinion because I'm not a condescending toff or a smarmy 'liberal' ... people think that I'm a bit of a drama queen, but they appreciate my opinions (particularly in cartoon form). Plus they only think that from the socials. People realise IRL that I'm not a drama queen. I'm a grown-up professional who just had their first real chance to get paid ruined by people that refused to pay them. That's also what the hīkoi film demonstrates. I've got the goods as a director/DP, and I'm also able to clearly articulate my goals. Most directors can do that, and most of them have some form of charisma that makes their interviews interesting. That's not acting. That's directing. - So, Tory: agree to this. Immediate cessation and absolutely zero 'jokes' about passing. That is a form of hate speech. A real apology by the end of the year because you've wilfully ignored my statements about IP ownership for almost 2 years now. It was absolutely and completely wrong to exploit my obsession with Chloe, and it was even more wrong to then use the FTAC to threaten me into production. Say sorry, Ms. Whanau. That's all I want: an apology, and immediate cessation as per the terms of the letters that I published earlier this year. Chloe, she has to say sorry and Nadine can't prevent that. In fact, Nadine is likely going to have to apologise to me directly as well for her role in all this bullshit that happened to me since 2022 if you want me to join the party.

Marama, if you respect me, then force this apology. I'd love some real compensation, but I know that VUW won't, and that you aren't willing to personally pay me for the bullshit that you put me through. You should, btw, and I'm sure that you're rich enough to cobble together a few thousand dollars that might allow me to rent an apartment for 2025. I don't return to the city until you apologise. I refuse to go to gigs until you apologise. I refuse to contribute to the cultural life of Wellington until you and the drag queens and the theatre dorks apologise to me. That is a fair and valid political tactic. It's called non-violent resistance, and is supposedly the type of protest that the Green Party supports. This is not an ultimatum. This is the natural outgrowth of continued bullshit that forced me to provide my drafting documents to the world to prove sole authorship. You've bullied me since that hui. Your Q&A interview left much to be desired, and made you look like an incompetent politician. The evidence is in: Tina = Amanda goes crazy, and Dakumentary = Amanda stays sane (or saner).

All you had to do, Tory, was to find people that wanted to make the movie, facilitate their purchase of my original screenplay, and then find another queen that WANTED the role. -

Instead, I've proven that I'm the pro filmmaker and you're not. Back off with your bullshit judgements about my private life that you've made while stalking my socials and are gleaning whatever other secret information that you've learned from spying on me.

I haven't gotten personal. I haven't brought your kids into our fight. You brought my personal life into the fight, and now you're suffering the consequences of that deeply personal attack that your drag queen idiots made in 2022. I've attacked your professional competence, but I defended you when Sinead was running her smear campaign. You haven't defended me, Tory. You've actually enabled people to hurt me because you told them I was a fetishistic perv that was flashing people intentionally. Painting trans colours on walls isn't support or defence. What I took away from that hui in 2022 was that you supported most trans people, but people like me weren't able to be supported unless we altered our expression. Stop trying to use chintzy visuals (like those bus campaigns) to promote the illusion of rainbow inclusion and actually look at the statistics. Stop being a PR lobbyist, and start being an actual fucking Mayor.

Is that enough, Nadine?