Introducing Living Smile Vidya - Living Smile Vidya

"Theatrical calling card," Introducing Living Smile Vidya bears witness to the life trajectory of a woman with extraordinary courage. Trans activist and actress Living Smile Vidya, aka Smiley, was born in India. Coming from a Dalit family - considered true outcasts - and trapped in a man's body within an ultra-patriarchal society, her gender identity earned her a genuine barrage of rejection. With all her strength, she held on and fought until she managed to change her reality as well as that of thousands of others affected. In her hometown, she would be the first trans woman to have her name and sex modified on her passport. In perfect complicity with the audience that she floods with her warmth, Smiley relates her experience, her insurrection, her scars and her pride without pathos.