Mojo Disco Oral History

Mojo Disco is a multi-talented personality, youth educator, art teacher, fitness instructor, curator, designer, poet, model and artist from NYC. In this interview Mojo discusses being born and raised here in NYC navigating her identity as a black child being raised by black parents deeply rooted in the hip hop culture. She graces us with her poetry piece "TIRED" that she wrote and first shared at a Trans Day of Remembrance celebration in 2019. In this poetry piece she details advice for other women when it comes to love, dating and friendship, remembers Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and reminds people that women of trans experience are humans who deserve respect and equality.

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Identifier: 7h149q35x
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
Creator(s): Disco, Mojo
Contributor(s): Knight, Sir
Date Created: Dec. 1, 2021
Genre: Oral Histories
Topic(s): Black transgender people
Hip-hop
LGBTQ+ artists
Poetry
Transgender community
Resource Type: Audio
Digital Format: 0:57:33
Language: English
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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