Repression led director Jane Schoenbrun to escape into TV shows like X-Files and Twin Peaks in their youth, providing both retreat and a vision of potential personhood.
TV became a dissociative escape for Schoenbrun, using fiction like Buffy the Vampire Slayer to avoid real life pressures, especially as early trans portrayals were negative and alienating.
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