The director and subjects of Kokomo City are expressing shock over the death of Rasheeda Williams, one of the trans women featured in the award-winning documentary, who reportedly was shot to death…
and another woman who appears in the documentary say it was Williams, a performing artist who went under the stage name Koko Da Doll.shows the struggle of Koko and other Black trans women in Atlanta and New York to move beyond a life of sex work, which they are often compelled to do as the only means of supporting themselves in a society that offers next to no traditional employment opportunities to women like them.
because I wanted to show the fun, humanized, natural side of Black trans women. I wanted to create images that didn’t show the trauma or the statistics of murder of Transgender lives. I wanted to create something fresh and inspiring. I did that. We did that! But here we are again. It’s extremely difficult to process Koko’s passing, but as a team we are more encouraged now than ever to inspire the world with her story. To show how beautiful and full of life she was.
In addition to Koko Da Doll and Daniella Carter, the film stars Dominique Silver and Liyah Mitchell. In the film, the women describe the threat of violence inherent in sex work;begins with Mitchell sharing an incident in which she discovered a client was carrying a gun . Silver describes an incident in which a client grew angry after discovering she was trans and beat her.
The film has been praised for its candid and unapologetic depiction of life for the trans women who appear in it. Smith, who announced her transition in 2016, says she made the film independently to avoid having anyone dictate the content.
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