Week 2, Day 5 of #TransLoveNov - Reina Gossett - T.J. Jourian

Week 2, Day 5 of #TransLoveNov - Reina Gossett

11/12/2016

Picture of Reina Gossett

On day 12 I send my love to Reina Gossett. An activist fellow at Barnard College's Center for Research on Women, Reina has put in quite the miles in the activism realm and now also using her knowledge and research for film making. Her latest body of work is Happy Birthday, Marsha!, a film about iconic trans artist and activist, Marsha "Pay it no mind" Johnson, who was at the 1969 Stonewall Riots. She also happens to be sibs with another brilliant trans scholar, Che Gossett.

With love and in solidarity
#TransLoveNov

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