Hold On To Me is going to London!! My and Te Shima Brennen ‘s debut 5-minute babyyy. London friends, please attend and send pics!

non-binary directors <1% and I can’t tell TGNC makeup from this report. everyday I’m glad Te Shima Brennen and I are making Mother Wit together in an industry where we’re almost always “that one trans film” in the room

ok ya I stand by the fact that the Oscars are whatever ESP after navalny over all that breathes? Please. But we won’t miss a party with this flag on the wall 🥰 Te Shima Brennen

So excited Rajvi Desai and my film is a part of The Sundance Institute’s Trans Possibilities Intensive and honored to have Rajvi as a partner to represent us!! Our journey as trans doc filmmakers of color has been a lonely one but we are so grateful to learn from other trans storytellers

DAY 7: #TransJoyIsPower Our greatest antidote to anti-trans political violence is remembering that we deserve our humanity, dignity, and joy. #TransWeek of Visibility and Action #TransnessIsPower #TWOVA #TransDayOfVisibility #TDOV 🧵 Trans-week.com

Please welcome @teshimabrennen and Rajvi Desai, 2023 Columbia Journalism School Reporting Fellows. Their film ‘Mother Wit’ will showcase the impact of the late matriarch and activist LaTravious Collins on their trans community in Brooklyn. 👉 bit.ly/ReportingFello…

So excited to be a part of this year’s Cucalorus Working Films Works-in-Progress Lab with Rajvi Desai and my feature film, Mother Wit: cucalorus.org/programs/works…

Join Fellows Te Shima Brennen and Rajvi Desai, grantee Vijayta Lalwani, and activists Maya Sharma and Keasha Houston on a discussion about community and support across generations of queer people. “Our life spans are so different.” Learn more and register now! bit.ly/3rUjhcV

Meet the 2023 Cucalorus Works-in-Progress (WiP) Lab recipients. WiP Lab is co-designed and coordinated by Working Films. Participating artists will receive feedback & hold community screenings during a residency at Cucalorus’s campus Sept 24-Oct 1, 2023. workingfilms.org/2023-works-in-…

"To them, trauma is so entrenched, so normal that we didn’t want to be adding to that. So we started seeing them as collaborators rather than sources.” - Te Shima Brennen on trauma-informed reporting

Well done Caithlin Mercer Te Shima Brennen Bahaar Joya for an inspiring and insightful discussion on mental well-being for journalists, trauma-informed practices, and centring lived experience in reporting Reuters Institute reunion #RISJ40

NEW on our site What we learnt at our reunion about the future of news A piece featuring Caithlin Mercer Te Shima Brennen Paula Molina @MitaliLive Peter Erdelyi Chanpreet Arora Guillermo Draper Maryana Drach Manjiri Kulkarni Carey Luiz Teixeira Felix M. Simon #RISJ40 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/what-we-l…

A great piece from Te Shima Brennen on what it takes to build trust when reporting on vulnerable, sceptical communities. Thanks Reuters Institute for raising these issues, prompting discussions, offering solutions.

Excited to announce that my fellowship project with Reuters Institute is published!!

🗓️Investing time and research in the community 🤝Building a like-minded team 🔑Being patient and flexible with access limitations Just some of the lessons shared by Te Shima Brennen on how to forge trust with marginalised communities. Read their project reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/breaking-rules…

Filming a documentary with a Black trans community in Brooklyn, New York, taught Te Shima Brennen valuable lessons on how to build trust with marginalised communities. Read their full project and a summary on our website reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/breaking-rules…

Gratitude to Te Shima Brennen for helping to guide the way for newsrooms on how to build trust and report on marginalized communities. Te Shima Brennen with support from Reuters Institute and Columbia Journalism School 'Class of 2022. Brennen was a 2022 Reuters Institute Fellow at Oxford.