Salacia(2019)

movie - first aired/released 2019-07-03 - 6 min - audience 1.0

History

Directed by Tourmaline

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.