{"id":8711,"date":"2025-08-18T15:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?post_type=event&#038;p=8711"},"modified":"2026-02-24T08:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:23:21","slug":"marsha-the-joy-and-defiance-of-marsha-p-johnson","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/marsha-the-joy-and-defiance-of-marsha-p-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"MARSHA: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the Helen Pond McIntyre &#8217;48 Lecture, Tourmaline will join C. Riley Snorton for a discussion of her new biography of Marsha P. Johnson. They will explore finding creative guidance in the archive, the power of Johnson\u2019s life as a blueprint for living today, and the continued struggle for queer and trans liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tourmaline\u2019s new book, <em>MARSHA: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson<\/em> (Penguin Random House, 2025), is the first definitive biography of the Black trans activist and icon. Richly researched and vividly written, and with extensive access to Marsha\u2019s friends and family, this book brings to light her legacy, and unwavering commitment to the fight for queer and trans liberation. It was named a National Bestseller, received a Starred Review by <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em>, and was selected by <em>The New York Times<\/em> for inclusion in the Nonfiction Spring Book Preview. Tourmaline is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, writer, and activist who has spent two decades studying, preserving, and celebrating Johnson\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This event is part of a series, \u201cWe Will Not Be Erased: Queer Archives, Trans Histories,\u201d that will continue with a conversation between Tourmaline and Steven Watson\u2014creator of Artifacts, a platform dedicated to preserving rare archival footage of queer and trans cultural pioneers\u2014on November 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a class=\"button warning radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/marsha-the-joy-and-defiance-of-marsha-p-johnson-tickets-1568167323679\">REGISTER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Helen Pond McIntyre \u201848 Lecture, Tourmaline will join C. Riley Snorton for a discussion of her new biography of Marsha P. Johnson. They will explore finding creative guidance in the archive, the power of Johnson\u2019s life as a blueprint for living today, and the continued struggle for queer and trans liberation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8712,"template":"","tags":[26,36,35],"class_list":["post-8711","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-activism","tag-history","tag-queer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/8711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/8711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11390,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/8711\/revisions\/11390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}