Salacia

Overview

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.

Cast

Rowin Amone

Mary Jones

Christopher James Murray

Peter Dermot

Eva Reign

Anne Waters