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I am a transwoman originally from Pittsburgh, PA. I have been living full time for 5 years. I work in retail but am an artist/Graphic Designer and aspiring writer. I tend to address the controversial in my writing. I would love to change the world one article at a time. I moved to The San Francisco Bay Area to start over, again. But recently moved back to the East Coast. The adventure continues...
Abbey the cabbie has had her trusty old hack totaled when some chump crashed into her and managed to drive away. She’s banged up and recovering in her apartment when without warning the boss shows up. He’s got good news. He thinks he can get her a new cab so she’ll be able to make a living and pay the rent. But while he’s there Abbey gets odd feelings, and it seems like maybe the boss is feelin’ somethin’ as well. This could be dangerous for Abbey since she ain’t got the “proper” equipment under her skirt.
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In this episode of the adventures of Abbey the Cabbie we find Abbey still shaken up by an accident that wrecked her cab and left her banged up. Her cab was hit by a drunk driver who had already side swiped a couple of parked cars. Now she is home with her cats aching and sore but she really wants to find the guy who hit her and drove off with a steaming radiator. But she finds her boss is becoming very interested in how she is feeling.
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Join Abbey the Cabbie on the mean streets of Charm City. She’s a lady cab driver behind the wheel of her Road King hack. All night she makes the rounds and picks up fares to make some cash. She’d like to give up driving and concentrate on her first love, detective work. She knows she has what it takes to be a good gumshoe but it just don’t seem that she’s gonna get a break. It’s a man’s world. So around the town she goes. Every night out on the streets in her cab. It might drive some people to drink but not Abbey. No. No drinking and driving. That’s rule one.
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Our entertainment and arts writer Amanda F. Steele dips her toes in the ocean of trans people and trans themes in the arts. Today she has info on several books, a film, and a pop singer who has adopted gender neutral pronouns. But that’s not all! Give Trans Media Arts a read and keep up with trans people and characters in the arts and entertainment.
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Join Abbey the Cabbie on the mean streets of Charm City. She’s a lady cab driver behind the wheel of her Road King hack. All night she makes the rounds and picks up fares to make some cash. She’d like to give up driving and concentrate on her first love, detective work. She knows she has what it takes to be a good gumshoe but it just don’t seem that she’s gonna get a break. It’s a man’s world. So around the town she goes. Every night out on the streets in her cab. It might drive some people to drink but not Abbey. No. No drinking and driving. That’s rule one.
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Amanda F. Steele covers the arts and entertainment beat. Armed only with her trusty laptop computer she dives deep into the waters of film, TV, art and music to compile the blog we dedicate to transgender artists, actors, musicians and more that we call Trans Media Arts. Today Amanda has the scoop on Caitlyn Jenner’s desire for another child, Janet Mock’s ascendence because of Pose, Nicole Maines statement that Women Rule the World, and more! Don’t miss a moment of Trans Media Arts!
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After a long sojourn in California Amanda is back on the East Coast. She stopped in her home town in Western Pennsylvania and then went on to Baltimore where she has lodgings with a friend and drives for Lyft. While she was in California she felt that the area she was in was beautiful but there was something wrong. She had anxiety attacks that were crippling. She felt that it might help to return to the east. Now she is in Baltimore and while things have improved she is still subject to anxiety. She wonders if California was only partly to blame for her condition and if perhaps it is her estrogen that is the culprit.
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No matter what part of the creative universe Amanda F. Steele is there to report on transgender people in entertainment, the arts and music. Today she has info on the stars of Pose, the first transgender (that we know of) actor to appear in a Marvel movie, and a lot more. Keep up with the transgender entertainment and arts scene with Trans Media Arts.
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Amanda may have found her mellow spot. After coming pretty close to rock bottom she has been lifted up again by Lyft. The ride sharing app has allowed her to make money doing something she loves, driving. She is all over the Baltimore area and even down in Virginia and Washington D. C. And she has a new therapist, is getting caught up on her bills and she tells you all about things today. And, she has a small slideshow of the amazing photos she takes while she drives around.
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Hello everyone! Hope you are all doing well. Welcome to SUMMER! Olaf’s, from Disney’s Frozen, favorite season. Curiously, since he is a snowman. Little did he know. “Bees’ll buzz, kids’ll blow dandelion fuzz and I’ll be doing whatever snow does in summer,” he sang obliviously. Speaking of the movie Frozen, which I adore, there are a […]
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Good news from Baltimore. Amanda has found a job and she not only gets paid, she enjoys the work. Just as things were at their most dire and she didn’t know where to turn she decided to give a new job a try. It pays and she likes doing the work. Now she’s getting out of the house and making money. Find out what her new employment is and read today’s blog, A Woman Finds Her Niche.
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Amanda F. Steele gets out her lasso and rounds up a whole herd of tidbits about trans people in the arts. From trans actresses and singers to a trans man Alaskan singer/songwriter, and the world’s only trans woman mariachi, Amanda has all the news about trans people in the arts and entertainment. Ruby Rose is Batwoman, Dana International, the 1998 winner, returns to the Eurovision Song Contest, and much more! Videos included! Catch up on all the trans art and entertainment news that Amanda has rounded up this month! It’s Trans Media Arts!
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The week before last Amanda got into her car and set out to visit her mother in Florida. You might think she would have timed the trip for Mother’s Day but she wanted to be there for her birthday — she turned 50 on May 1. In today’s blog she talks about the trip, only mentions her anxiety troubles a couple of times, and concentrates on how nice it was to be with her mother for a few days, very near a restful, peaceful beach on the Gulf Coast. And she describes the birthday cake her mom “surprised” her with.
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Amanda F. Steele covers the trans entertainment beat and today she files her report from the road. She has info on trans people on TV, trans children of Hollywood stars, the drag queens of Glasgow, and more. Settle in and keep up with transgender people and themes in entertainment with Trans Media Arts.
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Spring is in air but Amanda is in Baltimore. She’s not working and her cash reserves are running low. Time is going by and she needs to keep moving forward but she finds herself reluctant to start the job application process. Will fear and anxiety stop her from finding a place in her new home town, or will she take the necessary steps to get a job, make some friends and maybe, just maybe find someone special? Read Amanda’s Blog for her latest feelings about life, the universe, and everything.
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Amanda F. Steele covers the transgender entertainment and media beat. Today she has news about Shangela performing as Beyoncé for Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z. Then she introduces us to a guitarist and band leader who dares to perform in Malaysia , an ultra-conservative Muslim controlled nation. She also has news about Andreja Pejic and how to honor International Transgender Visibility Day in the U.K. Alex would talk with the voice of a trans man. Get it all from Trans Media Arts.
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After living on the West Coast and missing six years of The Keystone Conference Amanda F. Steele is now a resident of Baltimore and when she realized many of her friend would be just and hour and and eighteen minutes away in Harrisburg she made a last minute trip the event. And of course we took advantage of that and told her to send us a report on what happened.
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Amanda wasn’t fitting in in California. She had anxiety and depression almost every day. She missed the East Coast and her family. It was particularly hard during the holidays. At the urging of her online friends she decided to finally take another big step in her life and head back east. Now she is living in Baltimore, thinking about looking for a job and beginning to think that her life is just a dream. A bad dream, and she can’t wake up.
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Amanda F. Steele catches you up with the latest news about trans people in the media. Today she has news about Billy Porter’s wardrobe choices, the film Girl, the demise of trans soul singer Jackie Shane and much more. Tune in to Trans Media Arts for your monthly dose of transgender characters, actors and more.
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Amanda has completed her cross country journey and is now living in Baltimore, Maryland. She is done with the traveling part of her journey and now has to concentrate on getting a job. Today she files a report on how she is feeling about this new portion of her life.
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Where can you find transgender actors, characters and stories in the mainstream media? Trans Media Arts gives you all the transgender entertainment news. Amanda F. Steele is our intrepid entertainment reporter who digs up all that’s going on in the arts and entertainment in regard to transgender issues. Today she has info on a trans man actor in the next Spiderman movie, more on Nicole Maines’ role in Supergirl, a French transgender Playboy model who wants to act, and a cis male actor playing a trans woman role. All the news is there in Trans Media Arts.
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Our former California correspondent is now safe and sound at the end of her journey in Baltimore. Today she blogs about the last half of the trip and picks up the story in Denver. From there it’s on to Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Then Chicago at Christmas time before heading onward to visit her family in Pittsburgh and finally to “Charm City.” And she has a gallery of photos to document the trip.
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Trans Media Arts brings you the cream of the crop about transgender people in the entertainment and the arts. Today Amanda F. Steele, newly relocated to the East Coast, has such items as the controversy around the film “Girl,” the story or recently deceased trans woman pioneer Julia Grant who appeared in a BBC documentary about transition back in the ’70s, the idea that it might be time for a trans gender 007, and more. Keep up with trans people in arts and entertainment with Trans Media Arts!
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For months Amanda has been having anxiety attacks while living on the West Coast near San Francisco. She has wanted to leave California and head back to her hometown or another place where she know she has friends waiting to lend her a hand. This week she finally got everything packed and much of it shipped back east. On December 15 she got into her car accompanied by her loyal kitty cat and started the journey to a new home. This blog documents the first half of her trip.
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Our arts and entertainment reporter Amanda F. Steele has filed a report while she has been packing to move to the east coast. Despite having to write it on her phone her column covers a lot of ground and lets you know what’s happening with transgender people in film, television, online, and in TV commercials. Laverne Cox, Nora Monsecour, Victor Polster, and Kevin Balot are just a few of the people she tells you about today.
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Amanda has finally reached the point when she knows she has to leave California and head east. She realizes that there’s no place like home and a return to Pittsburgh is the right thing to do. But. . . she has to solve a couple of problems first. The big problem is The Kid. Her roommate who gave her a place to stay when she could not longer afford rent at her old place. The Kid is clingy, needy, and Amanda is sure she won’t take the news that she’s leaving at all well. So telling The Kid is problem number one. But there are a few others that are influenced by The Kid problem.
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