Saturday Night Social: Je Recommend That You Watch This Short Film
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If you’ve already binged your way through the entirety of Micaela Coel’s I May Destroy You and are desperately craving something new to glue your eyes to, might I suggest Tourmaline’s Salacia?
The short film, executive produced by noted hot man Keanu Reeves, is a reimagining of the life of Mary Jones, a Black trans sex worker born in New York City in 1803 who was arrested and jailed after stealing a man’s wallet. Although the actual woman herself lived in the part of Manhattan now known as Soho, the filmmaker places her version of Jones in Seneca Village, a 19th Century settlement of free Black landowners whose land was seized by the city under eminent domain in order to build Central Park.