🐝Tourmaline🐝
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Artist | Guggenheim Fellow | TIME 100 | work currently on view @metmuseum @Tate Modern, @MASS_MoCA , @Whitneymuseum Biennial 2024 | my art is a portal to dream
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Writing Marsha's biography over the last four years has been a true blessing. I learned that Easter was Marsha's favorite holiday and I personally think she'd cackle that this year it's on Trans Day of Visibility! Happy Easter Happy
#TDOV2024
Photo from Randy Wicker archive
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Black trans women deserve more than just not being killed. We deserve to feel GOOD, to feel EASE and JOY. To move through the world fully ALIVE not worrying about anything!
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The police have not always existed. In fact this slave patrol 2.0 is a relatively recent invention. So a copless future isn’t only possible, it’s precedented. We can dismantle systems designed to kill us. It’s happened before. It’s possible. It’s precedented.
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Longing for a world where it is not a revolutionary concept that Black trans women deserve to live.
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Imagine our grandkids asking what “police” were and why they existed and being so confused by the answer. Can’t wait.
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If you spend time learning about COINTELPRO and the lengths law enforcement goes to suppress social movements then it’s hard to shrug off theories about things like unlimited fireworks going off every night.
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When we say abolish police. We also mean the cop in your head and in your heart.
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abolition means no one deserves to be, let alone die, in prison. convicted or otherwise.
80 percent of those who died of Covid-19 in Texas county jails were never convicted of a crime, a new report finds
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We don’t believe you or your “trans friendly cages” propaganda.
ICE is committed to upholding an immigration detention system that prioritizes the health, safety, and welfare of all of those in our care in custody, including LGBTI individuals. (6/)
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MY NEWS: The Museum of Modern Art acquired my film Salacia for their PERMANENT COLLECTION! Salacia premieres Thursday at 8PM on ! Produced by Keanu Reeves & starring Rowin Amone, Salacia re-imagines Mary Jones in 1830s Seneca Village. 📸Matt Harvey
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Listen up. The law is not your friend. We do not need the state to criminalize the pandemic. Criminalization of illness and transmission has only ever had devastating effects on those already most vulnerable to the law. The law is not your friend.
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Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells’ life needs to be lifted up. I’m so outraged and exhausted. Show up up for Black trans women.
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I grew up visiting my dad in prison and no resources to navigate that emotional experience. It caused me to have so much shame. Incredibly thankful for
@prisonculture
writing a children’s book to support young people with incarcerated parents.
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There is no revolution with out Black trans women. We taught you your politics. showed up when no one else did. And so it doesn’t matter how many Assata chants you recite, if you police Black trans people’s gender at your protests you are faaaar from being revolutionary.
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Much of what exists in the public realm about Marsha and Sylvia I put online.
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THANK YOU for supporting & believing me, it literally meant everything Today I shared my story w
@Them
&
@TeenVogue
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2020 asking you to leave behind the gender reveal, the gender binary, doctors and parents deciding gender based on genitals and anything less than gender self determination.
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trans women, particularly TWOC in the US have routinely been forced to undergo sterialization procedures to do anything from get a passport, social security card/benefits. This whole reductive uterus as the only site of reproductive violence for women is garbage. Stop.
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Covid19 is spreading rapidly in prisons, detention centers, jails. Putting people in prison during a pandemic means escalating the pandemic. That’s why so many are trying to get people out of prison rn. Any carceral response is the wrong response.
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We won’t be less safe after we defund & dismantle police. They don’t make us safe to begin with! Police are actually a huge barrier to people staying safe and alive.
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Decided to stop “saving” looks for a special occasion and just look 🪄✨🏆 every day now.
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I deserve to be making art about pleasurable things not having anything to do with being killed. To be laughing with friends. These are simple ass desires!
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Hot bimbo summer
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About a month ago a whole lot of people learned about my work when Netflix created a Black Lives Matter category and placed their Marsha film in it. People spoke up on my behalf, reminded the public that Netflix's movie was possible because of my work, which is still not credited
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I was an abolitionist organizer for a decade before I was an artist and filmmaker. One thing i learned is that some people really don’t understand the individuals doing the most harm are not stopped by the police, individuals doing the most harm *are* the police.
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Trump legislating trans ppl out of existence hopefully reminds everyone that whitewashing trans culture, assimilating trans people into normality & turning a select few trans ppl into celebrities was never a good strategy to stop state violence.
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Writing Marsha P Johnson’s biography for the past 3+ years has been a lesson in how deep love can get! It’s been such an honor to be this close to her life *STILL UNFOLDING* and her Virgo magic. Happy birthday, Marsha! Photo by Randy Wicker
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The first Pride started on purpose at the New York Women’s House of Detention, a jail where members of the Black Panther Party were incarcerated. Protesters arrived there shouting “Free our sisters! Free ourselves” Pride has always been BLACK PRIDE.
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Unfriendly reminder that not everyone can march, be in huge crowds, speak at rallies and it’s an abliest organizing tactic to make people feel bad for not attending ur action.
#PrideNYC
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these days when young queers say "oh do you know about Marsha P Johnson?" i just say "no no tell me more" :)
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Subways & buses should and could be free; NY spends billions on police prisons and jails. Stop funding shit meant to literally kill us, start funding safe and accessible public transportation. It’s not complicated.
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If we aren't talking about trans, disabled, non binary people when we are talking about reproductive justice then we aren't talking about reproductive justice.
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ableism figures psychiatric disability as not “real” disability
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If you’re Black and disabled and feel like you’re missing the revolution cuz you can’t be in the streets, just remember it’s not revolution if it doesn’t include us!
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My first solo show PLEASURE GARDEN opens today with
@chapterNY
at 126 Madison St, NY, NY. I’ll be featuring my film Salacia and introducing a series of five new photographs inspired by the world of the film. Free, open to the public with virtual programming coming soon!
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Sadly our resistance and outrage and revolt and protest continue to be essential work and thus exempt from your curfew.
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Omg y’all Miss Major & I are lounging on the cover of Out Magazine. Casual cover girls 😱 What an HONOR to be in such gorgeous photos by Mickalene Thomas with
@immissmajor
@TheBarbaraSmith
@aliciagarza
&
@CharleneCac
. Thank you
@janetmock
@pfpicardi
@RaquelWillis_
@outmagazine
When
@pfpicardi
asked me to guest edit
@outmagazine
’s March issue, I knew the mothers & daughters of our movement had to be celebrated. 👸🏾💐🙌🏾 Starring
@missmajor9
,
@TheBarbaraSmith
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@tourmaliiine
,
@aliciagarza
&
@CharleneCac
. 📷 by Mickalene Thomas!
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this whole people with sperm should get a vasectomy just reproduces the logic of the state controlling bodily autonomy, reproductive self determination all the while reproducing the gender binary. stop doing that.
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Muhlaysia Booker, a Black trans woman who was filmed fighting back against attackers last month was shot and killed yesterday. I could not be more heartbroken. Rest in power.
#SayHerName
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I wrote a piece in the
@nytimes
with my dear friend Thomas Lax about replacing Rikers Island, the living monument to white supremacy, with pleasure gardens. Out in print this weekend but you can read it today online, on Marsha P Johnson Day:
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Queer friendships are one long “is this a date” and I love it.
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colonialism brutally *imposed* the gender binary and biological essentialism on its subjects. Stop defending biological essentialism as a legit way to connect with the ancestors.
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I called Miss Major on her birthday & she encouraged me to vote this year despite us both being sick of/from this system. Grateful to the Black radical legacies like hers that exceed electoral politics, center non-voters & use an abundance of tools to create what we need.
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We shouldn't only have to ask for the things we need to survive. People like me need to be safe, and housed, and loved, and protected -- and we also need to have fun, to take risks, to laugh, to feel beautiful, to be playful.
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today is the first monday where i woke up feeling really grounded and ready for the week
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Neoliberalism says: “lack of personal responsibility is why we are in the midst of a pandemic!”
conveniently erasing the real root causes that brought us here. So while it might be easier to blame “irresponsible” individuals, creating lasting structural change is what we need.
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I would like to direct the next Star Wars. Just putting it out there 😇
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Can we retire the "future is female" slogan yet? Can we imagine a future beyond the gender binary and biological essentialism yet?
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What if prisons were just abolished actually 🤔
What if prisons were used not just for punishment, but to actually help prepare people for life after incarceration? We believe it's time to
#ReimaginePrison
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I love seeing us remember we don’t need to reproduce austerity in our social movements! We get to ask for & desire beyond our immediate survival needs. For frivolous & pleasurable things. For rest. For joy. For sex. For filthy dms and fancy cars. That’s literally the point.
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We don’t need Daddy Deblasio’s permission to defund and abolish the police. We don’t need politicians to save us or legislate abolition.
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Gonna re-read Octavia Butler’s parable series ahead of the insurrection...I mean election.
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So honored to be a 2021
@GuggFellows
alongside some of the most brilliant people I have long admired!
Congratulations to our newest class of Guggenheim Fellows! These 184 individuals represent the best of their respective fields, ranging from applied mathematics and political science to choreography and translation. Check out the full announcement here:
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2020 is a great year to finally stop critiquing/questioning/shading anyone’s access needs.
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my memoir will be a marxist feminist reproductive labor analysis of how star wars fits into my life and supports my abolitionist work, sluttiness and filmmaking practice.
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Take that moral outrage you have about gay people congregating on the beach and use it to shut down your local prison.
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Nothing like the relief of the days getting a little bit longer. I’ll take that +1 serotonin ty very much.
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Learn about the ongoing criminalization of HIV transmission in the US. These laws -like all that fuel the prison system- are based on the idea of punishing irresponsible individuals. The impact of this continues to be disastrous. We don’t need to reproduce this logic any further
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I love storytelling that reminds me that I chose this moment to be alive not because I need to fix a broken world but because there is so much possibility for even greater transformation.
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Instagram is where I post pictures of my juicy nipples & cum fountain futanari. Twitter is where I repost words I said 15 years ago about abolition. Every platform has its role!
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CHE!!!! CAPTIVE GENDERS!!! NONAME!! NONAME BOOK CLUB!! ARE PRISONS OBSOLETE!!!
BOOKS OF THE MONTH
let the homie pick: For our July selection
@autotheoryqueen
(they/them) chose Captive Genders and
@noname
picked Are Prisons Obsolete. Happy reading and fuck amazon 😊
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I love that we are learning there is enough to go around. There is enough for us to flourish. And we don’t have to have done big things to be deserving of this pleasure.
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Black trans women have always been at the front of this fight. Back in 2007 when I was a baby organizer Miss Major gathered a group of us to strategize about ending police and prisons. You can & watch and learn from her here:
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Fun journalism project: instead of only writing about which celebrity or Hollywood lot is affected by the fires do a lil investigating on its impact on people in prison/jails/detention centers/hospitals/homeless shelters & how the ability to flee is deeply regulated.
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Abolish the police as a definitive way to find out who behind the fireworks. Abolish the police to sleep easier. Abolish the police for more peaceful nights. Abolish the police because it feels good to be alive.
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prisons as a violent force of climate change & collapse, as forced migration. prison as the biggest perpetrator of sexual violence, reproducing the gender binary, furthering capitalism, enacting ableism. prisons aren't solving any problems. stay dreaming worlds without prisons
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Spent the last month w T Lax creating a tour of sites in Manhattan where Black folks and trans people have dreamed and created beyond what we were told was possible. With contributions from Robin DG Kelley, Mariame Kaba, Cynthia R. Copeland & Laraaji ❤️🔥
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I love when friends & loved ones change their names. It’s like “thank you for sharing an even bigger part of you with the world” Gifts on gift.
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Y’all NY paid billions to entice a company already making billions. Just like SF & Seattle this will surely displace many and drastically reshape this city. And we never even got a say! But tell me again about our “progressive” mayor & governor.
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Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson’s Fight to Free Incarcerated Trans Women of Color Is Far From Over
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Did you know that Pride was started by Black people? Pausing on Pride in order to focus on Black life = whitewashing Pride. Instead just center Black trans and queer life in your celebration of Pride.
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if we aren't talking about prisons when we are talking about reproductive justice then you guessed it, we aren't talking about reproductive justice.
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I am so deeply moved to be included in the 2020
#TIME100
list! Thank you so much
@janetmock
for writing such moving words about my work.
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Thank your local rioter, bed resting organizer, incarcerated freedom dreamer. And keep on pressing.
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Whether it was the Y’all Better Quiet Down speech that I digitized and uploaded or hand written interviews I found in archives typed and put on Tumblr, so much of what I shared spread like beautiful, virtual wildfire.
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My film Salacia being acquired into
@MuseumModernArt
permanent collection is an art dream come true. Thank you for all the love you have showered on me and Salacia! Today is the last day to watch online for now, see it here:
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i wanted a car for my birthday, to move around safely and have fun it. and some angel friends reminded me that the ease & pleasure I dream for the world must also apply to me! So they are fundraising 4 my wildest car dream here
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I wrote about Freedom Dreaming for
@voguemagazine
! Photos by MaryV Benoit via
@voguemagazine
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Black Art is a whole lesson in making beauty out of supposed lack, of funding, of platform, of prestige. But recently I remembered that I don’t make short films. I make cinematic edge play films. Leave you wanting more films. This is all you can digest from me right now films!
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Can we stop calling it “pro-trump counter protesters” and just call it what it is: violent white supremacists?
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Prisons are up and running but public transit is being cut.
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there's so much knowledge about reproductive autonomy that isn't rooted in ableism, colonialism, transphobia, anti-blackness, the gender binary, biological essentialism. plz do better when responding to the next national outrage, its coming and we need everyone.
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a trans women of color has been killed each week this year but the most important thing to talk about is straight cis white women wages?
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Pedro Pascal, the star of Mandalorian, posting Marsha P Johnson for 11/11 day is peak "all my favorite things really do align in time"
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Black trans women are being killed like never before. Where is the outrage? Do u only care about us when we're respectable or entertain u?
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So important to remember that whoever you’re talking to is also living in the middle of pandemic and probably also stressed the fuck out. Be gentle.
Including if you haven’t gone outside in a long while and find yourself in deep discussion with your mirror.
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