Trans in America: Texas Strong

Written By Dakota X

Presented by the ACLU and Little by Little Films. Released in partnership with them.

Directors Daresha Kyi | Cary Cronenwett
Producers Lindsey Dryden | Shaleece Haas
Executive Producers Molly Kaplan | Chase Strangio

Trans in America: Three short verité documentaries about transgender civil rights in the United States reveal the daily impact of discrimination on three families as they battle with bathroom bills, vulnerability in employment and housing, and the aftermath of incarceration in Texas, Illinois and Georgia. The series had its world premiere on Conde Nast's LGBTQ+ platform them. on October 10 2018. The films are directed by LGBTQ+ filmmakers, produced by an inclusive and majority-LGBTQ+ production team, and informed by a panel of transgender Advisors.
Little By Little Films

Texas Strong: An intimate portrait of Kimberly and Kai Shappley: a mother rejecting her community’s beliefs as her 7-year-old transgender daughter navigates life at school, where she’s been banned from the girls’ bathroom.

Dir. Daresha Kyi (Chavela), a Firelight Media Documentary Lab alumna, writes and directs film and television in Spanish and English. She is currently directing a feature documentary called Mama Bears about the ways in which the lives of conservative, Christian mothers are transformed when they decide to accept their LGBT children. Produced by the ACLU & Little By Little Films.

Dakota X

DAKOTA X (b. Boston, 1961) is a Contemporary American Painter. X's artistic work examines the complexities of individual experience particularly in its relation to home, gender identity, isolation and memory. X is a recipient of the Orlowsky Freed Foundation Grant and a finalist in the shortlist for the 2018 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London.

https://dakota-x.org/
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