Empowerment Film Series: The Death & Life of Marsha P. Johnson

A film to commemorate Sexual Assault Awareness Month

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is an American documentary film that chronicles Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, prominent figures in gay liberation and transgender rights movement in New York City from the 1960s to the 1990s and co-founders of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries.

The film centers on activist Victoria Cruz's investigation into Johnson's death in 1992, which was initially ruled a suicide by police despite suspicious circumstances.