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

Filmmakers Sasha Wortzel and Reina Gossett after the screening.

Filmmakers Sasha Wortzel and Reina Gossett are photographed after a screening of selections of their movie “Happy Birthday Marsha!” in the Chase Auditorium on Monday, December 5, 2016. Gossett and 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