TOURMALINE (she/her) – is an American artist, filmmaker, activist, editor, and writer. Along with Critical Resistance, Tourmaline organized a campaign with low income LGBTGNC that prevented the NYC Department of Corrections from building a $375 million jail in the Bronx. Tourmaline has done prison abolition work through a video series, titled No One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition. Tourmaline has also performed work as a community historian for drag queens and transgender individuals around the Stonewall Inn rebellion, observing how archives and repositories rarely prioritize saving transgender artist materials.

Tourmaline was featured in Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice (2015), which was produced by Marc Smolowitz and screened as a Human Rights Campaign event. She also served as the 2016–2018 Activist-in-Residence at Barnard Center for Research on Women. In 2016 she directed her first film The personal Things which features trans elder Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, who reflects on her life as an activist. In 2017 Tourmaline was awarded a Queer Art Prize for her work in on this film.  Tourmaline also worked on the Golden Globe nominated film Mudbound as an assistant director to Dee Rees. Tourmaline has made numerous films about trans activism. 

In 2020, the Museum of Modern Art acquired her 2019 film Salacia, about Mary Jones, for its permanent collection. Tourmaline works in various different mediums in her artwork. In 2020, she created her self-portrait, Summer Azure, which went on display at the Getty Museum In 2021, also the same year The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired two works by the artist, including Summer Azure, for display in Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room. Now in 2025 she releases her Book called MARSHA! - the same year that she awarded “The 1st Got Moxy - TDOV Winner” on 3.31.25 at The Moxy Chelsea from The Radical Hearts Collective.