Merci Chrisette
Merci Chrisette also known as the pseudonym Chrissy Jackson, formerly known as The Subway Slasher, Flamboyant Fashionista, and Glamazon Trans Slasher is an American transgender fashion model most known for a video taken on the Brooklyn A train of Merci threatening a male subway passenger with a hair separating comb went viral. The video amassed eight-hundred thousand views via WorldStarHipHop. Chrisette was then a cosmetology student whom had just been fired from a telemarketing job the day that the video was taken. Currently Merci is pursuing a career in fashion modeling under the pseudonym, Chrissy Jackson.
Viral video
On December 18, 2015 a video was taken by a male passenger on the Brooklyn A train of Merci standing up for herself to a group of male passengers who were making transphobic slurs. The video starts a few minutes after the argument began so it is unclear what they were disagreeing on. The video shows Chrisette taking a hair separating comb, from her cosmetology class, out of her purse and using it on two of the males who were taunting her on the train. Once she realized that she was being filmed, Merci says to the camera "Hi. I'm used to cameras. Get my good side." Both received scratches from the scuffle but both refused medical treatment. Merci turned herself in to police the following day and was charged with: assault, criminal possession of a weapon, and reckless endangerment.
Modeling career
Under the pseudonym, Chrissy Jackson, Chrissy has modeled for NY Magazine and has walked runways for: Geary Marcello, Egypt Ufele for Chubiiline, Rocky Gathercole, and Alve Alexander for New York Fashion Week 2017.