Happy Birthday, Marsha! Performative Lecture: Bring Your Own Body

The audience watch selections of the movie “Happy Birthday Marsha!” in the Chase Auditorium on Monday, December 5, 2016.

The audience watch selections of the movie “Happy Birthday Marsha!” in the Chase Auditorium on Monday, December 5, 2016. Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel, who co-wrote, co-directed and co-produced the film, staged a performative lecture and screen selections from their highly anticipated film. “Happy Birthday, Marsha!” is an experimental film about the legendary transgender artist and activist Marsha “Pay it No Mind” Johnson and her life in the hours before the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City. The event was organized in conjunction with Bring Your Own Body: transgender between archives and aesthetics. Photo by Leigh Taylor