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Chronic Illness and Married at First Sight Australia

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It has been a while since I really felt up to writing a blog post and this one is about the chronic illness representation within the recent series of MAFS (Season 10) Australia. It might be a shock to you, but three of the women contestants have chronic illnesses and spoke about them (not all were aired, and there wasn't equally shared air time) and I wanted to discuss the differences in the representation we got thanks to the editing of the show. I have a lot of other thoughts generally when it comes the MAFS, you can see my past videos for that. This blog post will focus on chronic illness and the portrayals of them within the show this season.

Elliot Page: Our Trans Icon

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This week Elliot Page came out as trans and uses he/they pronouns. This was very exciting for me, as a trans nonbinary fan of theirs since... God, Juno? I've watched them create many exciting characters on screen for many years. I was a budding actor myself (and half still am) and I always felt drawn to Elliot's work and characters. Through the years, he has come out as queer (or, sadly outed like a lot of queer stars in Hollywood) and turned to a queerer direction of character portrayals. His characters were never mainstream, but seeing them change from straight/cis to queer and somewhat fluid of gender representation, gave me hope for the continuing change in Hollywood to start allowing more LGBTQ+ actors to, not only play queer roles, but any roles and be successful.