Jojo T. Gibbs

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Summary

Jojo T. Gibbs is an actor and comedian known for playing Hattie in Lena Waithe’s Twenties and for roles in Fresh, DogMan, and Civil War. Her work includes comedy and thriller roles, while Twenties brought her particular prominence as a queer black woman lead. Gibbs has publicly said that seeing people like oneself on television matters, and that she did not see gay people on television as a child. She has also described the show’s representation of queer black women as important; no public record of party campaigning, political affiliations, or broader advocacy campaigns is established.