Valentina Sampaio is raising awareness for the LGBTQ community with an NFT and short film.
The transgenderhas teamed with the Lions Management and blockchain company Lukso to create the digital assets to benefit an array of LGBTQ organizations, such as the Ali Forney Center, GLAAD and Pride Live.
Sampaio features in a short film, named “Lambada Dyed Red White and Blue,” where she names the 34 transgender and nonconforming people who have been killed due to anti-trans violence in the U.S. this year. She posted the short film to her Instagram on Tuesday.The video ends with Sampaio being placed into a digitally altered dress in a red, white and blue colorway, which is meant to symbolize and memorialize the transgender lives lost.
“This NFT dress is in the element of blood,” she wrote on Instagram. “Blood that gives us life. Blood that gives life to the trans lives we have lost. Blood that unites us all.”
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