Info
From Leviathan with Love
Selected Photography
Glowquest
e.l.f
Benefits
e.l.f.
Symptomatic
Novartis
Chasing Sleep
Mattress Firm
Incubation
Pushkin Industries
Style Stalking
Puma Fenty
Power Pigments
Target
The Moment After
Warner Brothers
Reebok
Afterlives
Outspoken
Go Off, Sis
Money Diaries
UnStyled
The Only Way is Through
Under Armour
Ruby
Raquel Willis, Host, Creator and Executive Producer
Jay Brunson, Executive producer
Dylan M. Heuer, Senior Producer and Scriptwriter
Joey Pratt, Associate Producer
Aaron Edwards & Julia Furlan, Story editors
Savannah Hugueley, Fact checking
Mekhi Baldwin, Show artist
Daisy Church, Production Manager
School of Humans, Story Production
Known to light up a room, Layleen was an Afro-Latina trans woman in New York City who was sentenced to the city’s notorious jail complex on Rikers Island. She died there in 2019, at the young age of 27.
This 7-episode series celebrates Layleen’s vibrant life through memories from her family of origin and the community she discovered in New York’s famed ballroom scene.
The series unpacks the systems that failed Layleen leading up to her death at Rikers through in-depth interviews with activists fighting against the criminalization of sex work, solitary confinement, and the epidemic of anti-trans violence.
AFTERLIVES is the story of Layleen’s life and the fight that continues in her name today.