Sasha Wortzel

Sasha Wortzel is an artist, filmmaker and activist living and working in New York City. She is the writer, director, and producer of Happy Birthday, Marsha! with Reina Gossett.[1] She and Gossett raised over $25,000 on Kickstarter to fund the film.[2]

Wortzel created the documentary We Came to Sweat: The Legend of Starlite with Kate Kunath. The film concerns the community efforts to stop the eviction of the Starlite Lounge, the oldest black gay bar in Brooklyn. It was a highlight of the 2014 New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival.[3]

Wortzel's interactive artwork 42 Butter Lane (2011) was included in the 2014 exhibition Roaming House at A.I.R. Gallery. The exhibition, curated by Mira Schor, sought to update the 1972 feminist art installation Womanhouse.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Hodson, Hannah (October 24, 2015). "Talking with Reina Gossett and Grace Dunham About Everyday Activism and Why Empathy is Everything". Autostraddle.
  2. ↑ King, Jamilah (August 15, 2014). "Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson: Trans Pioneers, BFFs, Film Stars". Colorlines.
  3. ↑ Mancuso, Anne; Khatib, Joumana; Boryga, Andrew (July 24, 2014). "Spare Times Listings for July 25-31". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ Sherwood Pundyk, Anne (February 5, 2014). "A ‘Womanhouse’ or a Roaming House? ‘A Room of One’s Own’ Today". The Brooklyn Rail.
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