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Laurie Frankel’s “This Is How It Always Is” is a novel that should be read by everyone. A heart-wrenching story about a trans child’s journey, this novel consistently flies under the radar in conversations about queer literature.

Trương Minh Quý’s “Việt and Nam“ (2024), which can be watched on Dailymotion, concludes with a gloomy scene, where the two titular characters are slowly suffocated in a large trailer during an attempt to be smuggled into England as unregistered workers.

To anyone looking past the media circus of “Emilia Pérez,“ 2024 was a breakout year for a new generation of indie trans filmmakers. "I...