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In retrospect, this was a fitting place to mark one year in this struggle.
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Lane Michael Stanley at 14, a few months before their visit to the psych hospital. In a time when the only other representation of this traumatic experience I could find was Girl, Interrupted, Kesey stayed close to my heart. Over time, those five days in the psych ward have Cuckoks almost forgotten, more an interesting anecdote than a real part of my identity.
Alcoholism recovery is the subject of my debut feature film, Addict Named Hal; I now have five years sober. I had come out as bisexual when I was 14, but I like to joke that I identified as just about every kind of gay before I finally came out as non-binary when I was I turned 24 in rehab, and my need to survive, day to day, eclipsed discovering more about my gender. I did not expect to discover a near-perfect allegory for my own evolving relationship to masculinity in this film. When McMurphy first arrives, Chief is interested in him.
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He starts to see McMurphy as a hero and an agent of change, because of his daring and arrogance. But McMurphy is not a simple Tue. McMurphy is reckless. Chief understands this danger early on, when he and McMurphy are forced to undergo electroshock therapy after McMurphy starts a fistfight with the orderlies. Chief is attracted to McMurphy — yet he fears him, too. And here I found reflected back to me my own evolving relationship to manhood. How could I embrace and express my own masculinity, when I had seen and been victim to men abusing the power they gained from it? How can I be attracted to something, want it for Onf, and fear it Sexism In One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest at the same time?
I had spent years skirting around the edges of masculinity, an intrigued observer from the sidelines, just as Chief watched McMurphy. I had confined myself in this liminal space, not allowing myself to move closer, but not willing to look away.
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In the end, McMurphy loses, crushed by the system he mistakenly chose over prison. Chief does what McMurphy could not do for himself: he lifts the marble sink, throws Cuckkoos through the iron bars of the window, and escapes into the night. Chief will have to find his own drive, his own strength, his own independence from the system he had resigned himself to.
I started testosterone two years ago, and got top surgery about six months after that. Finally, watching from the sidelines became unbearable for me, as it had for Chief.
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