Growing up Trans on the Prairies

A person with short brown hair and glasses holding a ukulele, standing in front of a natural, blurred background that resembles a forest or prairie setting.

My Prairie Home, a National Film Board profile on transgender singer and songwriter Rae Spoon, focuses on growing up isolated in an evangelical family. Here’s the original trailer.

The NFB calls it “a portrait of Rae Spoon’s queer and musical coming of age, set under the Canadian Prairie’s famously big sky.” See more from the NFB here.

UPDATE: Since the debut of the film at the 2014 Sundance festival, Rae Spoon has become a major non-binary public figure, a musician, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and author. They have released 12 solo albums (Coax Records) spanning folk, country, indie rock, and electronic genres and published three books (Arsenal Pulp Press).

Rae Spoon’s website here.