Salacia (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.

Released July 3, 2019 6 min None+

Genres: History

Keywords: mdblist.three-actors

Country: United States
Production Country: United States
Languages: English