In an emotional short film, New York actor and activist Joslyn DeFreece is getting candid about the obstacles she faced on her journey to living her truth as a transgender woman.
Pieces of Me , produced by PFLAG in honor of Transgender Day of Visibility , pairs present-day interviews with DeFreece and her family members with archival clips of her adolescent and teen years in her hometown of Omaha, Nebraska.
In a snippet from the film, DeFreece, whose acting credits include The Whitlock Academy and Strange Angel, recalls meeting Laverne Cox for the first time and describes the Orange Is the New Black and Inventing Anna actor as my first trans friend.
It was the first time Id met another trans person, a person like me, who was nerding out on the same stuff that I was, DeFreece says in the clip below. To have someone that I could sit here and talk about the things that I was going to school for, and someone that would come over and sit at my apartment and, you know, talk about boys, talk about life, and then be equally as passionate about her career it was everything.
Watch a clip from Pieces of Me:
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