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Tourmaline

Salacia

  • History
RELEASE

2019-07-03

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

6 min

Description

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.