Feminist to Know: Tourmaline

 
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Tourmaline is a filmmaker, artist, trans studies scholar, educator, and organizer. She edited Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility alongside Eric A. Stanley and Johanna Burton in 2017 (under the name “Reina Gossett” which she officially dropped). Tourmaline also directed the fictive short film Happy Birthday, Marsha! which imagines the life of trans hero Marsha P. Johnson leading up to the Stonewall Riot.


Tourmaline was an activist in residence at the Barnard College Research On Women from 2014 to 2018. She has won numerous awards for her activist and artistic work including the 2018 Publishing Triangle Award and 2017 HBO & Queer/Art Prize. Her work “highlights the capacity of black queer/trans social life to impact the world while living what is simultaneously an invisible—and hypervisible—existence.” It is stunning, exigent, and educational.

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