Unveiling Marsha P. Johnson: The Untold Story of Joy, Defiance, and Revolution in Tourmaline’s New Film
Within a week of that final parade, her body was found in the Hudson River. Police dismissed the death as suicide until her case was reopened in 2012. To this day, the case is unresolved.
Tourmaline explores every possibility before leaving us to our own conclusions. Some friends of Marsha believed that she was simply finished and that she decided to take her own life; others felt that the pain of losing so many people she loved, as well her physical and mental pain had put her on unsteady ground, that she had hallucinated that she could walk on water. Others fiercely deny suicide as a possibility. It’s great, riveting reading.
