My Body Is a Cage

My Body Is a Cage
"My Body Is a Cage"
Degrassi episode
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Adam binds his breasts as a temporary body modification to present his sex as male.
Episode no. Season 10
Episode 15 & 16
Directed by Jason B. Irvine
Written by Michael Grassi
Featured music Jim McGrath
Tim Welch
Cinematography by Alwyn J. Kumst
Production code 1015 & 1016
Original air date August 11, 2010 (pt. 1)
August 12, 2010 (pt. 2)
Guest stars

Jean-Marc Généreux as Mr. Menard
Ramona Milano as Audra Torres

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"My Body Is a Cage" is a two-part episode from the tenth season of the Canadian television series Degrassi. The episode follows transgender character Adam Torres (Jordan Todosey) as he struggles with himself and his family over his gender identity. Other plots include Anya MacPherson and her family learning that Mrs. MacPherson has cancer and Dave Turner's attempts to improve his grades by being a class clown.

Part one of "My Body Is a Cage" originally aired in Canada on MuchMusic and the United States on TeenNick on August 11, 2010 with part two airing the following night.

Contents

Plot

In Ballroom Dance class Adam (Jordan Todosey) finds himself developing a crush on dance partner Bianca (Alicia Josipovic). After class he collides with Clare (Aislinn Paul) in the hall, dropping a pack of tampons which, when Fitz and Owen notice them, he forces on Clare as if they were hers. The next day Adam comes out as transgender to Clare and Eli (Munro Chambers). Later Adam and Bianca flirt until Bianca discovers that Adam is biologically female and begins spreading the story. Her friends Fitz and Owen assault him in the boys' bathroom. Drew (Luke Bilyk) tries to fight them after school but is beaten. Fitz and Owen get suspended and Principal Simpson (Stefan Brogren) assigns teachers to escort Adam to and from classes.

When Drew and Adam's grandmother, who only knows Adam as "Gracie", comes for a visit Adam decides to go back to being "Gracie" for the sake of family harmony. The stress leads him to burn himself, something that had been a previous pattern. Clare convinces him that he needs to be true to himself. Adam begs his mother for her understanding and support and later he and his family and friends burn Gracie's clothes in a bonfire, symbolically laying her to rest.

Anya (Samantha Munro) brings some soup home for lunch for her mother, who had complained of a cold. When Anya and her friend, Leia (Judy Jiao), discovers her mother has left home without her wedding ring, they suspect her of having an affair. Anya confronts her mother, who explains that she took off her ring for an MRI. The scan reveals non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Anya's fear of her mother's death initially leads her to skip a family medical consultation but a talk with former best friend Holly J. inspires Anya to go.

Dave (Jahmil French) believes the only way to improve his Media Immersion grade is to make the teacher, Ms. Oh (Cory Lee) laugh. He checks her "FaceRange" page and uses her posted pictures for a class project. Failing the assignment leads him to increase his effort to be the class clown until he discovers that Ms. Oh has recently ended a relationship. He offers her empathy and she explains that hard work and not gimmicks will earn him good grades.

Guest cast

  • Katherine Ashby as Pam MacPherson, Anya's mother
  • Maggie Butterfield as Drew and Adam's grandmother
  • James Edward Campbell as Mark "Fitz" Fitzgerald
  • Steve Cumyn as Harold MacPherson, Anya's father
  • Jean-Marc Généreux as Mr. Menard, the dance teacher
  • Riley Gilchrist as Dr. Christopoulos, Pam's doctor
  • Edward Jaunz as Drew and Adam's father
  • Daniel Kelly as Owen Milligan
  • Ramona Milano as Audra Torres, Drew and Adam's mother

Awards and nominations

"My Body Is a Cage" won a 2010 Peabody Award.[1] In announcing the honor on March 31, 2011, the selection committee wrote: "True to its history, the durable high-school serial's two-parter about a transgender teen neither trivializes nor over dramatizes its subject."[2]

Part two was nominated for a 2011 Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program, but lost to A Child's Garden of Poetry.[3] It was also nominated for three Gemini Awards, it won best performance in a children's or youth program or series (Jordan Todosey), and lost in best direction in a children's or youth program or series (Phil Earnshaw) to the Degrassi summer finale, and best writing in a children's or youth program or series (Michael Grassi) to an episode of the animated series Spliced.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ 'Degrassi' wins prestigious Peabody Award for episodes about transgendered teen
  2. ^ Degrassi deserving of Peabody award
  3. ^ "outstanding children's program 2011". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. September 10, 2011. http://www.emmys.com/nominations/2011/Outstanding%20Children's%20Program. Retrieved September 12, 2011. 
  4. ^ "26th Gemini Awards Nominee List". Gemini Awards. 3 August 2011. http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini26/press/GEMINI-Nominees-LIST-News-Release-Aug-3-2011.PDF. Retrieved 17 August 2011. 
  5. ^ "2011 Gemini Awards Presented in Drama, Children’s or Youth, Comedy and Variety Categories". Gemini Awards. 31 August 2011. http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini26/press/gemini-news-release-aug-31.pdf. Retrieved 1 September 2011. 

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