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What Makes "Sense8" The Best LGBT TV Show

by The Daily Eye Team May 12 2017, 3:39 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 33 secs

Two years ago, I watched the first episode of Sense8. That was the first time I ever saw a love that looks like mine onscreen. One of the eight psychically-linked strangers in the Wachowski-led Netflix science fiction series is a young transgender woman named Nomi (Jamie Clayton) whose cisgender partner Amanita (Freema Agyeman) is smart, playful, and fiercely protective. For me and my own cisgender partner, watching Nomi and Amanita holding hands as they walked through the park was like looking in a very flattering mirror. I felt not just represented but seen by a television show in a way I had never experienced before

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Award winning illustrator, cartoonist, artist, animator and increasingly influential social and political columnist, Mumbai-based, Gautam Benegal, was published first in renowned filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s children’s magazine Sandesh, at age sixteen. Since then, Benegal has written and illustrated books both for children and adults, made animated films and held exhibitions of his art in India and overseas, to significant critical acclaim.

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