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Major Griffin-Gracy

Born

in Chicago, The United States

October 25, 1946

Website

https://missmajor.net/

Twitter

immissmajor

Genre

Black/trans Activism

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Miss Major is a Black, transgender activist who has fought for over fifty years for her trans/gender nonconforming community.

Major is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a survivor of Dannemora Prison and Bellevue Hospital’s “queen tank.” Her global legacy of activism is rooted in her own experiences, and she continues her work to uplift transgender women of color, particularly those who have survived incarceration and police brutality.

Miss Major’s fierce commitment and intersectional approach to justice brought her to care directly for people with HIV/AIDS in New York in the early 1980s, and later to drive San Francisco’s first mobile needle exchange. As director of the TGI Justice Project, she’d return to p ...more

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Major Griffin-Gracy’s books

Average rating: 4.62 · 1,848 ratings · 371 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Major Griffin-Gracy, Toshio Meronek 4.63 avg rating — 1,775 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility by Reina Gossett (Editor), Eric A. Stanley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Johanna Burton (Editor) 4.48 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Major Griffin-Gracy (?)

“I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person.”
― Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

tags: diversity, trans, transgender

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