Call Her Ganda is an indictment of Western imperialism, transphobia, and injustice

PJ Raval’s Call Her Ganda is a film I’ve been raving about since catching it at Hot Docs last spring. It’s the story of Jennifer Laude – Filipina, trans and a sometime sex worker – whose 2014 murder at the hands of a US Marine stationed overseas might have gone unnoticed, like the vast majority of victims of violence fitting Jennifer’s many marginalized identities. Instead the 26-year-old’s death sparked not only a national outcry, but led to an international showdown over issues far beyond gender or sex – and straight into matters of unequal justice, unleashed militarism and American imperialism.

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