The powerful testimonies of 3 ‘Kokomo City’ stars as Black trans women
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Reckon reporter Daric L. Cottingham spoke with Kokomo City stars Dominique Silver, Liyah Mitchell, and Daniella Carter at Sundance 2023 to discuss what participating in the documentary means to them as trans women. They each share their praise of director D. Smith and the importance of Kokomo City as a bigger conversation on the experiences of Black trans women.
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Directed by D. Smith
In theaters July 28
In the wildly entertaining and refreshingly unfiltered documentary KOKOMO CITY, filmmaker D. Smith passes the mic to four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City - Daniella Carter, Koko Da Doll, Liyah Mitchell, and Dominique Silver - who unapologetically break down the walls of their profession. Holding nothing back, the film vibrates with energy, sex, challenge, and hard-earned wisdom. This vital portrait, edited and shot by Smith in bold black and white, is her feature directorial debut. A two-time Grammy-nominated producer, singer, and songwriter, Smith made history as the first trans woman cast on a primetime unscripted TV show. Executive produced by Lena Waithe, KOKOMO CITY won the Sundance Film Festival’s NEXT Innovator Award and NEXT Audience Award, as well as the Berlinale’s Audience Award in the Panorama Documentary section.
Starring Daniella Carter, Koko Da Doll, Liyah Mitchell, Dominique Silver
It’s astonishing to think that any of the people that are depicted in this film. Find this experience exhilarating. It’s hard to wrap my brain around that. How does someone spiral downward to such a level?
The full and complete mental and moral decline of morality in the West, particularly in America through systematic subversion of society.
Just think about it, some of these tranzformers turnt to porn 'acting', stripper and prostitution... Yet some progressive will say, "well, you should respect everyone's choices in life, its 'her' body, she can do whatever she wants".
Disgusting.
My best friend is from Africa and she says trans stuff isn't accepted over there which is so unfortunate as a lot of black women are stereotypically/naturally masculine and are probably trans without realizing it but are afraid to come out.
when I was a kid I liked being strong and felt confident and didn't l feel like a girl because of this!
My parents tried telling me I don't have to wear dresses or make-up yet can still feel like a women and how femininity isn't about acting dainty and wearing dresses. I tried telling them they were ignorant as trans women clearly act feminine and wear dresses, so that is clearly a form of femininity as even they feel natural wearing dresses and acting dainty.
So I transitioned and I love it! Being a man is about being strong, confident and a leader, things women cannot relate to as strong butch women tend to be seen as not feminine, which makes sense as they are probably trans too without realizing.
A crew of punks trying to convince everyone else that they are someone other than Gods creation