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If you know anything about the legendary activist Marsha P. Johnson, chances are you’ve been touched by the work of Tourmaline. Widely recognized as our community’s preeminent Johnson scholar, the ...

However, Marsha’s life ended abruptly at the age of just 46 in 1992 when her body was discovered in New York’s Hudson River. While she said the P in her name stood for ‘pay it no mind’, the story of ...

Celebrate Marsha P. Johnson’s life and legacy with activists carrying her story forward. On this Pride Month edition of “Meet the BIPOC Press”, we’re celebrating Marsha P. Johnson with two activists ...

The artist and activist has two books on Marsha P. Johnson, a central force in the Stonewall uprising and nascent LGBTQ+ rights movement, due out in May. Both received starred PW reviews: Marsha (Tiny ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artist and filmmaker Tourmaline debuts with an illuminating biography of Marsha P. Johnson, a central force in the Stonewall uprising and nascent LGBTQ+ rights movement. Tourmaline recreates Johnson’s ...

The Stonewall Uprising, a pivotal moment in the LGBTQ+ rights fight, occurred 56 years ago and sparked a movement led in part by two transgender activists: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. The ...

Marsha P. Johnson was bold, fearless, kind and complicated. A key activist in Stonewall, the Black trans drag artist also founded STAR to care for trans people, and was an enigma that anybody who met ...

Marsha P. Johnson on the corner of Christopher Street and 7th Avenue during the Pride March in New York City on June 27, 1982. Credit - Barbara Alper—Getty Images And yet, despite it all, my mandate ...