For A Thousand Ships, JG Danso takes the words of one of Shakespeare's contemoraries, Christopher Marlowe to commemorate the Black, trans, American activist Marsha P. Johnson.A controversial figure of Elizabethan London, Marlowe was a spy, atheist, homosexual and vocal government critic. Johnson was a pioneering trans muse, drag queen, mother, sex worker, AIDS activist, human rights advocate and tencious protester against police brutality.