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About Razor Tongue

Razor Tongue is a critically acclaimed no-bullshit web series, winning the "Special Recognition Award" at this year's 2021 Glaad Media Awards and earning Rain Valdez her first Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series, making her the 2nd transgender actress to ever be nominated for a Primetime Emmy in an acting category and the FIRST Filipina American transgender actress to be nominated.

Also starring Sterling Jones, Carmen Scott, Shaan Dasani and the incomparable Alexandra Grey, Razor Tongue explores the complexities of finding a voice of self-love in a world filled with misogyny and discrimination. Razor Tongue deftly navigates the calling out—and the being called out. Whether sitting through a floundering Tinder date or a terrible job interview Belle calls out micro-aggressions and bad behavior from men whenever she sees it. But when antagonized by Ariel (Grey), who turns the tables on her, she begins to wonder how effective public shaming actually is. There has been ample talk recently about the call-out culture, especially in LGBTQ+ communities, and Razor Tongue — cuts to the heart of the issue.

The Making of Razor Tongue

Razor Tongue employed 80% trans, queer, female and POC identified people in front of and behind the camera. An important component to creator Rain Valdez who is the first Asian-American transgender member of the Time’s Up Movement.

The seven-part series was crowdfunded, shot in 4 days and has an all-female directing team: Natalie Heltzel, Sarah Poynter, Kalena Ranoa and Puppett. Ava Benjamin Shorr serves as DP. The story itself takes transgender storytelling into the future, leaving transitional & gender plotlines behind.