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- ↑ "Venus tackles a transgender story from an immigrant lens" Archived 2019-02-12 at the Wayback Machine . Now , May 17, 2018.
- ↑ "Eisha Marjara forgoes the drama in transgender tale Venus". Montreal Gazette , March 2, 2018.
