bell hooks

I think that a filmmaker can can represent Black women as sex workers in a way that is cinematically transformative. A lot of the possibility to do so lies in having a foundation of appropriate narrative components and taking the steps laid out by bell hooks for such a re-framing. Representation is a big part of that. A film would need to consider new representations of liberatory sexuality and a challenging of the notions of "the eroticism of the patriarchal phallic imaginary." The characters must be complex, and shouldn't be portrayed as victims, as properly done in Girl 6. It must also not dwell solely on one section of race, sex, or class, but consider all, as in Exotica.