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A historical exploration of Mary Jones, a Black trans woman in 19th century New York, whose story is reclaimed through modern art.
History · 1/10 · 6 min · 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.