Tourmaline makes film and installed video that highlight the capacity of queer/trans social life to impact the world while living what is simultaneously an invisible—and hypervisible—existence.  Her work includes Salacia, Mary of Ill Fame, Atlantic is a Sea of Bones, The Personal Things, Lost in the Music and Happy Birthday, Marsha!  She is also an editor of TRAP DOOR, an anthology on trans cultural production published by the New Museum and MIT Press.

Sponsored by American Studies and the Feminist Research Institute