A historical exploration of Mary Jones, a Black trans woman in 19th century New York, whose story is reclaimed through modern art.
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.
Tourmaline
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