Molik Michal Harvey

Molik will produce a documentary interviewing surgeons, religious leaders, scholars, and transgender individuals about the implications of female to male gender transformation in American society.  He will challenge us all to think about whether there are moral, ethical, political, and cultural implications involved by asking questions and providing answers on deeper social implications and levels of accountability associated with participating in FTM gender transformation. This film will alter how we think about ourselves and question mainstream beliefs about the dynamics of equality, power and privilege associated with this kind of transformation.

Molik will create a one-hour autobiographical video journal that chronicles the first nine months of his experience as an HIV-positive female-to-male (FTM) transgender person initiating testosterone therapy. The video will include photos, interviews, conversations, and documentary footage. Molik's goal is for the video to help fill in the vacuum of positive images of black-trans culture and imagery, and become a platform for change, challenging assumptions, and raising consciousness about how we think about gender identity.