Tourmaline is an artist and filmmaker whose work includes Atlantic is a Sea of Bones, The Personal Things, Lost in the Music and Happy Birthday, Marsha! She is also an editor of TRAP DOOR, an anthology on trans cultural production published by the New Museum & MIT Press.
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03 July 2019
Tourmaline is an experimental portraitist whose subject is Black trans women. This impressionistic piece concerns Mary Jones, who worked at a New York brothel in the early nineteenth century and was described as a “man-monster” in a tabloid-style lithograph that was published after her arrest, in 1836, for robbery.
23 November 2023
The artist walks through a garden, with additional footage featuring Black trans activist Marsha P. Johnson.
10 March 2018
It's a hot summer day in June 1969. Marsha plans a birthday party for herself, but no one shows up. Sylvia, Marsha's best friend, suggests they meet at Stonewall instead, where Marsha can perform.
07 August 2020
The coming of age story of Shéár Avory, a 17 year old trans* aspiring social justice advocate in Los Angeles who navigates housing instability and familial dependency on their journey to adulthood.
15 September 2020
JOY RUN, a film by Tourmaline, continues the creative reimagining of athletics as a gender-inclusive space.
03 December 2017
Atlantic is a Sea of Bones is a short film drawing from the Lucille Clifton poem of the same name that follows Egyptt LaBejia, an NYC based performer through the 80s, 90s, and 2000's in NYC.
12 December 2025
A Flower That Lives Forever is a video work specially commissioned by ACCA that reimagines a joyful outing Johnson took with her friends on the Staten Island Ferry.
19 November 2016
“You have to find your own way to strike back.” Black trans elder and legendary activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy describes how everyday personal acts fuel her political activism.
