{"id":41071,"date":"2017-05-11T14:08:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T18:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=41071"},"modified":"2017-05-11T14:08:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T18:08:01","slug":"watch-i-had-to-pretend-i-was-the-sex-that-i-wasnt-singer-shea-diamonds-seen-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=41071","title":{"rendered":"Watch: &#8220;I Had To Pretend I Was The Sex That I Wasn&#8217;t&#8221;, Singer Shea Diamond&#8217;s &#8220;Seen It All&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=41072\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41072\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/shea-diamond-560x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/shea-diamond-560x372.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/shea-diamond-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/shea-diamond.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYC-based singer\/songwriter <strong>Shea Diamond<\/strong> is sending a powerful message of hope in her new video for song <strong>Seen It<\/strong>. In collaboration with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itgetsbetter.org\/\">It Gets Better Project<\/a>&#8211; the worldwide movement inspiring changes and support for LGBT youth who are bullied, Diamond waxes on the women who enlivened her, including <strong>Nina Simone<\/strong> and <strong>Patti Labelle<\/strong>, her incarceration, and the hard road she travelled to become the woman, and voice she is today. Watch below! (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.out.com\/music\/2017\/5\/10\/trans-singer-shea-diamond-dedicates-power-ballad-it-gets-better\">Out<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shea Diamond:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I knew, at a very young age, I loved to sing. My voice was effeminate and I remember feeling afraid to sing in the church choir. The fear of my own voice left me feeling like an outcast.<\/p>\n<p>No longer able to hide my truth, I ran away from home at 14 years old, becoming a temporary ward of the state. I grew tired of the shuffle from foster home to foster home, so at 17, I was emancipated and sought out independent living. Desperate to find the financial means to transition to my true gender, I committed a crime in 1999 and was sentenced to 10 years in a men\u2019s prison.\u00a0I was afraid that I could possibly die in a prison system designed to\u00a0ensure correctional jobs over human lives.<\/p>\n<p>While incarcerated, I spent time talking to other like-minded women of trans experience about their stories. It was because of these women and the community I was a part of in prison where I really found my voice. I was locked up but my mind was free!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cdnapi.kaltura.com\/p\/2197371\/sp\/219737100\/embedIframeJs\/uiconf_id\/37493671\/partner_id\/2197371?iframeembed=true&amp;playerId=kaltura_player_1_rg5rzqhv&amp;entry_id=1_rg5rzqhv&amp;flashvars[streamerType]=auto\" width=\"560\" height=\"395\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC-based singer\/songwriter Shea Diamond is sending a powerful message of hope in her new video for song Seen It. 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