User talk:WikiFouf/Daniella Carter
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IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7423774/
- In 2020, she launched Daniella's Guestbook (daniellasguestbook), a site and online campaign that spotlights BIPOC creators for brands and leaders in advertising and media, with the goal of unlocking employment opportunities for the creators. The project was featured on Forbes.com, among other media outlets.
- Daniella has given speeches at local, national, and international events, including panel discussions with political leaders and dignitaries. She spoke at TED Talks Live and also delivered talks during TEDxABQ and TEDxMidAtlantic.
- Carter appeared in a Puma campaign alongside Cara Delevingne and shared her experience with youth homelessness at the Human Rights Campaign's "Time to Thrive Conference."
- She was recognized on the 2015 Trans 100 list and attended the Obama White House's Annual Emerging Leaders Day, highlighting 100 Black leaders. She has appeared on MSNBC, ABC News, the New York Daily News, People Magazine, and in the New York Times.
- Daniella initiated a project to bring visibility to trans youth issues and has collaborated with Miss Universe and others to share their experiences in overcoming homelessness.
- She has worked with her mentor Laverne Cox and was featured in the Emmy award-winning MTV & Logo documentary, Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word. Daniella's message transcends boundaries of race, class, and gender, focusing on the intersection of identities.
- Pier Kids, Pose
Press kit bio : https://static1.squarespace.com/static/576454e629687fb39bd1f977/t/64bac93e6ac7ef1fc5b58ade/1689962814432/KOKOMOCITYfinalnotes.pdf
- She also spoke about trans issues on a Vote America panel alongside Mary L. Trump and GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis.
- This past December Daniella produced a short film that opened up for John Galliano at the 2021 DVOF festival in Paris and at the Chelsea Film Festival's 10th anniversary.
- She recently released a series that she co-directed for Glaad in partnership with Gilead Sciences Compass grant program.
Thriver Thursday : https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1016986188805119
- [Description] Daniella grew up in foster care until she decided to leave at age 14 when her foster family wouldn’t accept her gender identity as well as to escape the abuse and trauma she was experiencing at home. Due to the lack of resources for trans youth in the foster system, she was forced to live in the subways and engage in survival sex work. Despite this, she still went to school each day since she knew an education would give her choices and freedom. Today she is thriving and using her story to inspire and uplift others in her community.
- Growing up was no traditional upbringing. It was this endless cycle of never really having a sense of family.
- At the age of 18 months old, I was placed in New York City's broken foster care system.
- Every week we were meeting new kids.
- From like kindergarten, I would say that my boxers are panties. I just wanted to be home and present as female.
- When I began to express my transness in that family, I was welcomed with physical abuse, sexual abuse and rejection.
- At 14 — I'll never forget — here I am in the attic, I'm in these girl clothes, and I finally felt free. But I was choosing to become the woman that I wanted to be. And what that looked like for me was tying two sheets together, jumping out of a window with no destination but to my truer self. I'll never forget I'm like halfway and it feels like the sheet is getting ready to pop. And I remember that whether that sheet popped, and I hit the floor and I broke something, that I had to keep going. Because what was going on behind those walls, behind those closed doors, was nothing anybody should have ever had to endure. And I knew that as soon as my feet touched the floor, that I was finally free.
- There was no resource. The way that I got by, the way that I survived, was by doing sex work and sleeping on trains. These trans women, they took me under their wing. Those nights, we had to be each other's pillow.
- School for me was the only place that I could be happy and feel free.
- The Martin Luther King Junior High School, also know as the Graham School
- Teacher : "This kid is a ball of fire"
- Sedea [teacher] was like the first cis woman who I considered to be a mother figure. I love the way Sedea loved on me, because it allowed me to just be her child.
- Sedea : I didn't find out about what was going on in Daniella's personal life until post-graduation.
- Every day I would take three trains and two buses to get to school.
- I graduated high school, even got like a few awards from the city.
- My first year of college, I come back with one of my schoolmates; she experienced robbery and I experienced rape. And I was abducted, held at knife point. I was kicked out of a car in the middle of Times Square, naked, stripped of everything. I had built myself up so much. Everything that I owned, gone. And I had nothing.
- I took myself from dealing with one of the most horrific times in my life, I got myself enrolled into the Bailey House program housing for anyone who identifies as transgender, gender nonconforming, and seeking independent living. I got the job.
- I was walking by this newstand, and it was Marie Claire, and they were revealing to the world that Janet Mock is a trans woman. When I looked into it felt like the eyes of Janet, I saw myself. I met Janet. With that relationship, sharing you know my passion, my interests and stuff, Janet connected me to the community. I found a group of women whose mission at that time, I believe, was to finally use their collective forces to start to uplift trans youth.
- I went on to become a community activist and speak out against injustice.
ABC News (Thriver Thursday) : https://abcnews-nwsdynamic.aws.seabcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/video/transgender-activist-inspires-perseverance-74165818
- I was walking by this newstand, and it was Marie Claire, and they were revealing to the world that Janet Mock is a trans woman. When I looked into it felt like the eyes of Janet, I saw myself. I met Janet. With that relationship, sharing you know my passion, my interests and stuff, Janet connected me to the community. I found a group of women whose mission at that time, I believe, was to finally use their collective forces to start to uplift trans youth.
- I went on to become a community activist and speak out against injustice.
- Carter, 26, is creative producer and head curator of the site, achieved in collaboration with the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based creative ad agency, SpecialGuest, where she started working in January.
- By showcasing links to several works by underrepresented artists, her hope is to foster relationships with industry leaders, major brands, and production companies. Carter said she sees her Guestbook as a place of intersectionality that, as a transgender woman of color, really hits home. “The mission is to take people from the shadows of society who have dreams, who have ambitions like everyone else. But depending on the exceptional voices to liberate them, I want people to see the value of my community.”
- So, it’s no surprise that the stories of trans people of color are prominently featured. But that’s not all. “My community is not just the LGBTQIA community,” she said. “It is the Black community.” Carter’s site notes that it’s not only an online home for BIPOC but Latinx creators as well.
- Actor Jason A. Rodriguez (”Lemar Wintour” on FX’s Pose) joined her for the launch last week. Their Instagram Live chat was the first in a planned series of weekly interviews between the artists featured on Carter’s site and industry thought leaders, tastemakers, and influencers. All she wants from these conversations are more conversations, and connections.
- Despite her youth, Carter’s resume as a creator and activist is long, having worked with her mentor, Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox, and being featured in Cox’s Emmy award-winning MTV & Logo TV documentary, Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word.
- She appeared in a Puma advertising campaign alongside English model and actress Cara Delevingne — shot, she said, on the same lawn of her New York City high school that bullies once chased her across. Carter also spoke at TED Talks Live.
- The LGBTQ media advocacy organization GLAAD is partnering with Carter to promote her new project. In June, the group worked with her on a video for Pride Month, spotlighting 40 transgender and non-binary individuals.
- The other films currently featured on Daniella’s Guestbook include a powerful anti-racism rap by WordSpit, Everything Black; a music video by Mila Jam; a video titled Latino Card Revoked by Josh and Leo; Luchina Fisher’s gripping apocalyptic horror short film, Danger Word; Dionna McMillian’s hilarious comic short film about how a lactose-intolerant actress stumbles through the most important audition of her life after a very unfortunate mixup, and so many more.
- Carter’s own story is, in her own words, “mindblowing,” one that too easily could be made into a Hollywood drama: raised as a foster child, a childhood victim of abuse and bullying and an adult victim of rape, she has found the survivor within herself and happiness in the search.
TED 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDaR9zAiKbc
- I was 18 months old when the foster care system placed me in an upscale home in New York City's Queens neighborhood. It had all the marks of wealth prestige and affluence I was placed in a home where the arms of loving parents private schools and weekends at the shore should have awaited me.
- Instead, I came face-to-face with unspeakable acts of abuse, shaming, slapping, neglect and more. I struggled to fit in with other children at school. I was different and I had more than one secret to keep.
- One fateful day at the age of 14, I disclosed to my foster parent I was not like the other boys. I was transgender. My foster mother's response was they kicked me out of the home to save the other children from what she calls the devil's creation.
- For me it wasn't easy undergoing gender transition as a freshman while secretly being homeless and living on New York City subways. I didn't have support. I didn't have anyone.
- When I then went on to high school I understood that the only thing that would be tangible in my life would be my education.
- Instead it was walking just about a mile up and down Christopher Street and hope to get clients how to get a meal and transportation money to even get to school.
- My journey began wrapping t-shirts on my head because I couldn't afford expensive wigs. And because that was my truth, I was ridiculed and physically attacked by the guys and girls at my school.
- After graduating high school and going on to Rochester, New York, I then started my own foundation Gender Global. After starting Gender Global, I have a national ambassadorship with the Human Rights Campaign.
TED 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z91QICMpbng
TED 3 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLQBMruDWIY
Refinery29: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2015/03/84694/daniella-carter-start-from-here-youth-homelessness
- Daniella Carter is 20 years old, but she seems to have lived several full lives. Raised in foster care, she came out as transgender at age 14, and was cut off by her conservative Christian parents.
- After finishing high school, she founded a global advocacy group, Gender Global, appeared in a Laverne Cox-produced documentary, and is currently working with Start From Here, an organization fighting youth homelessness.
- She has spoken at awareness-raising events around the world. Last week, she spoke at the White House.
- I grew up in foster homes, from when I was 18 months old until age 14, when I decided to leave. I left because I was facing a lot of trauma — physical, emotional, and sexual abuse from the very individuals who were instructed to keep me safe. "My foster parents at the time were very, very religious, Pentecostal, and I knew that to express myself authentically, I couldn’t live under a religious roof."
- Sometimes, I would take showers in the street and sometimes I would steal food from grocery stores. It was completely for survival — it was a lifestyle of survival.
- While I was homeless, staying on the subway, I went to school every day. I didn’t have a lot of support at that time, but there were faculty and others who helped me — fed me, and gave me car fare. No one knew that I was homeless; they knew that I was struggling, but not the extent of it. "I realized that the only way I’d be able to redefine my life, my role as [either] a victim or a survivor, would be to get an education."
- I started transitioning around sophomore year. I remember I called home after one time I’d been brutally attacked by some peers at the place I was staying, and I called my mom and said I need to come home. She told me that I’d made a choice and I needed to deal with what happened to people who chose to be gay or transgender. I said that I didn’t understand, growing up I’d experienced sexual abuse. I said to her, 'One of our family members molested me for several years when I was a child — what about that? Was that a choice?' She said, 'What?' and hung up the phone. And, I knew that when she hung up the phone it was her way of saying she was walking out of my life."
- "I was raped and robbed in the street last year, held at knifepoint, in New York City.
- I ended up applying for an internship program and getting into it, and there I found a friend, who’s part of my support system now. I remember opening a Marie Claire and telling him, 'I’m going to meet her,' Janet Mock. He was like, 'Girl, she wouldn’t give you the time of day.' Two months later, I met Janet Mock. I went to her book signing.
Laverne Cox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDy0DhfuxfI
- After the rape, in the hosepital: Shift when they found out that she was transgender and couldn't use a rape kit. She: ″You sure it wasn't sex work"
GLAAD : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKAs5UqQIa0
- So like you mentioned my journey started on the Laverne Cox presents the T-word in at that time I was just getting out of foster care I had just dealt with rape and from that opportunity by sharing that truth I did get public speaking engagement but in all transparency it was very limited opportunities that came in.
- Although the documentary oozes old-school glamour, Smith says that one of her primary aims was to “show a stripped-down version of trans women, so that people aren’t distracted by a fabulous wig”. The result is a documentary packed with wise and memorable monologues, many of which come courtesy of Daniella Carter, whose background as an activist and public speaker shines through. “I’ve used materialistic things to cover up my struggle in the past,” she tells Dazed, walking the streets of Chicago just hours before speaking at a national law conference.
- “I was married to a millionaire at 21 years old, but when I was divorced from that partner and sent back into the community, people didn’t accept the poor Black version of me. I was living in shame for having to navigate systems that didn’t exist. There was no job to fall back on, no family or financial support.”
NYT : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/us/politics/black-trans-lives-matter.html
- Daniella Carter, a black trans woman from Queens, said that in high school, her classmates seemed to be “just learning what L.G.B.T. meant, let alone what transgender meant.”
- Ms. Carter, now 26, was homeless and did sex work for much of her adolescence. But at times, “it wasn’t navigating survival sex work that felt like it was the burden, it was having to go to school and watch an entire classroom move away from me,” she said. “Because not only was I a burden to that space, there wasn’t even enough language out there yet to talk about what acceptance looked like.” Her life changed, she said, after she saw Janet Mock on the cover of Marie Claire magazine.
- It was the first time she had seen a trans woman “who reflected that woman I always dreamed of — the woman who is black, who’s powerful, who can present herself chic,” she said. “I said to myself, ‘I don’t know how, but I have to get in touch with this woman.’ I’m like, ‘That’s me, and I need to learn how to be that.’”
- Ms. Carter did get in touch with Ms. Mock and other black trans activists, and eventually went to film school. This weekend, she released a video that highlighted trans people and emphasized their resilience — part of an effort to increase the visibility of trans people’s stories, and not just the ones in which they are victims.
HuffPost 1 : https://www.huffpost.com/entry/from-homelessness-to-acti_b_8633664
- For me, undergoing gender transition as a freshman in a prestigious prep school, in 2009, while at the same time being secretly homeless an living on NYC subways, and having to engage with survival sex work to meet my basic needs was not easy. It was not for the faint of heart. It feels like it was just yesterday when I would have to wear T-shirts on my head to represent long hair because I could not afford expensive wigs. This was my truth. And because it was my truth, I was constantly ridiculed and physically attacked by the guys and girls in my school.
- A few years later, I graduated high school and shortly after that I was featured in the Emmy award-winning documentary: The T Word. From that opportunity, other doors opened for me. I began an exciting position at Equality New Mexico, and became a National ambassadorship with Human Rights Campaign, and put together a foundation called Gender Global.
EverybodyWiki :
- The landmark committee of Jersey City, N.J., consisting of organizers Jonovia Chase, Daniella Carter, Michael Roberson Maison-Margiela and Giselle Xtravaganza spearheaded the effort to honor Venus Pellagatti Xtravaganza.
- The recognition is long overdue. From the legendary House of Xtravaganza in New York City, Venus Pellagatti Xtravaganza stepped into her international spotlight in the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning by Jennie Livingston. In the film, Livingston documented the underground yet dazzling scene of Black and Latinx LGBTQ people in the 80s. Establishing ballroom houses was a way many members of the community built chosen families.
Pier Kids : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3547238/ WikiFouf (talk) 02:53, 28 March 2024 (UTC)