‘Salacia’ Filmmaker Tourmaline on Spotlighting Black Trans Lives and the LGBT Journey to Mainstream Recognition
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variety.comMeg Zukin Mononymic filmmaker and activist Tourmaline watched as protesters moved in a sea of white to gather at the steps of the Brooklyn Museum on June 14.
More than 15,000 people came together for Black trans lives, an action that Tourmaline found powerful: “Everyone was asked to wear white for the protest, and it made it so readily identifiable how many people are saying, ‘Yes, we agree this thing that you’ve been saying for years — which is you deserve to be not just alive but fully alive — is real for us too, and we’re going to spend our energy to vocalize that.’”This moment of mainstream acceptance comes a year after the premiere of “Salacia,” an art video that Tourmaline — an assistant to the director on the award-winning film.
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