Actor and activist Laverne Cox: We need to change Power ‘

For most of American history transgender characters of the film were depicted as villains, victims or mockery. In Disclosure, a documentary Netflix now streaming, the actor-activist Laverne Cox and other pioneers trans troubled past Hollywood and moving to explore available. The film, directed by Sam Spring, was also from Cox as executive producers. TIME spoke with the star of the documentation and recent demonstrations in favor of life Black trans, and how needs America shocked the writers room to the boardroom. As the lives of trans people are always more affected by these harmful representations in film and television? The thing that was immortalized in the film and is also maintained directly in public policy now is that sex assigned to us at birth the heart of things. The basic idea is that we do not know actually what we say we are. This is what leads us to death. That’s what it’s always a law created to judge us. So that’s what we have to cancel this denial of trans women of femininity and masculinity of men trans and validity of non-binary identities. How can translate into real problems representations? If you like Buffalo Bill have references from The Silence of the Lambs, a female serial killer flayed flesh to wear, or a pair of glasses like the Jerry Springer show in which trans people to their romantic partner trans, and struggles reveal ensue- people taught to have a violent reaction to us, or that our presence is laughing at something on. To what extent has arrived, the entertainment industry, as these examples? Film has a long way to go. But television was a nice place for growth. The difference is that trans people always write more direct, and trans actors are listened to more than experts in our stories. So we have more nuanced stories are stories more and more human, different stories. There are shows like pose, have different characters trans, and that gives us the ability to have the show, more than being trans. Because if you have more trans people, then there are nuances within this. The show is a matter of survival. This is family. It is love. It is many things. Where does Hollywood go from here? One of the things we are most proud of disclosure is that we have a crew of all-trans, and we find no trans person in case we were able to fill a role in the team, we had a non-trans person wanted to form a trans person . We need more of this type of mentoring to cultivate talent, so that we in different areas of society are able to work and be increased, in an ideal position to positions of power. There are manifestations of violence against blacks highlight transsexual women recently based on the life Blacks count movement. How does it feel? It feels late. This is the result of years of activism. to support and tens of thousands of people from Black trans-lives mattering I cried when I saw the photos. We are here with a lot of push-back, many are not happy to be deleted, and that’s what we need to do to continue to press for greater representation and political changes. Hearts and minds must change. Our work is complex, it is inter, internalized it, it is ideologically and institutionally. noticed a recent Supreme Court decision that transgender Americans are protected in the workplace through prohibitions on discrimination based on sex. What are your thoughts on the verdict? I think it’s our duty to remember that the Civil Rights Act was made law in 1964 and since then, black people were murdered right in employment and discrimination? Just because we’re in the right place, this does not mean that a policy of discrimination goes on. Just because we have a process and a decision, the equity is monumental-that does not mean that people are not going to just strategizing now to take these rights. If you hope where we go from protest this time, what would it be? I hope that the nature of power can be changed so that the material conditions of those changes that are most marginalized in this country. To do this you will need every vote and we change money in politics. We must work so that the energy does. And not just a set of black faces in high places, to quote Cornel West. It is not only to bring new faces in the same müdeen system and the same room with the same rules that oppress people. We have to change rooms. We have to change in power.
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