Trans Oscar Nominee Anohni on Why She's Boycotting Academy Awards

The Academy Awards have just erased the silver lining of an awards season that has been rightfully dominated by stories of omission and institutional injustice. Lost in the justifiable furor over #OscarsSoWhite is the fact that a transgender person has received an Academy Award nomination for the first time since songwriter Angela Morley earned two in the mid-Seventies. Mercury Prize-winning musician Anohni (née Antony Hegarty) has been recognized for her song "Manta Ray," the J