Rowan Ashley Smith has often been described as "a multi-hyphenate about town." He loves work that connects him to his cultures as a gay, Jewish, multiracial trans man. Before breaking into journalism, ...

How the author of a new Marsha P. Johnson biography lives out Black trans joy Tourmaline — a writer, artist, and activist — reflects on her new book MARSHA and the urgent need for queer storytelling.

Marsha P. Johnson was an activist, artist and legend of the Stonewall Uprising. Crowned in flowers, she was a smiling symbol of Pride and the dream of a better world. A bonafide New Jersey icon, she ...

Trans people are under attack across the United States, and these attacks are being launched by the most dangerous bully of all: an increasingly fascist executive branch empowered by a cowardly ...

Marsha P. Johnson. Photo courtesy of Tiny Reparations Books/Penguin Publishing Group. We can’t talk about Stonewall without mentioning Marsha P. Johnson, but history has a way of categorizing even our ...

Jun 2, 2020 Jun 2, 2020 Updated Jun 18, 2020 0 A fixture in New York’s LGBTQ community, Johnson was found dead in the Hudson River in 1992 and police at the time ruled the death a suicide. Many still ...

Marsha P. Johnson on the corner of Christopher Street and 7th Avenue during the Pride March in New York City on June 27, 1982. Marsha P. Johnson on the corner of Christopher Street and 7th Avenue ...

Twenty years ago, Tourmaline — a New York-based artist, filmmaker, author, and organizer — began looking into the life and legacy of Marsha P. Johnson, a Black trans performer and activist who left an ...

Marsha P. Johnson's name isn't in most American history books, but it should be. When a judge asked her about the "P" in her name, she responded that it stood for "Pay it no mind." The judge laughed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tourmaline author book cover Marsha P Johnson Every now and then, a truly exceptional book comes along that doesn’t just change ...