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Miss Major Speaks
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary | Toshio Meronek, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
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The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV/AIDS crisis and a world that white supremacy has built. She has shared tips with other sex workers in the nascent drag ball scene of the late 1960s, and helped found one of Americas first needle exchange clinics from the back of her van. Miss Major Speaks is both document of her brilliant lifetold with intimacy, warmth and an undeniable levity-and a roadmap for the challenges black, brown, queer and trans youth will face on the path to liberation today. Her incredible story of a life lived and a world survived becomes a conduit for larger questions about the riddle of collective liberation. For a younger generation, she warns about the traps of representation, the politics of 'self-care,' and the frequent dead-ends of non-profit organizing; for all of us, she is a strike against those who would erase these histories of struggle. Miss Major offers something that cannot be found elsewhere: an affirmation that our vision for freedom can and must be more expansive than those on offer by mainstream institutions.
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Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary | Toshio Meronek, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
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A quick and powerful read. It's got guts and heart: visceral and emotional. The conversations are between Miss Major and her assistant/found-grandchild Toshio, and it's like sitting around the table with them hearing these incredible, heartbreaking, heartwarming stories.
Her life has often been hard, & her language reflects the places she's been and experiences she's survived and thrived after. An important addition to Black Trans History 5✨🏳️‍⚧️

Cinfhen Thanks for the recommendation! I‘ll definitely be looking for this one 1y
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Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary | Toshio Meronek, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
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“If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situations. You are a stronger person because of the shit you've gone through.”

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Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary | Toshio Meronek, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
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“The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established social hierarchy, from which they can look down on us and make sure we don't fuck with the money and privilege they hoard.”

jedy94 “Unelected representatives“ are a problem in contemporary democracies.
Bureaucrats, religious authorities, business magnates, and media oligarchies are the unelected representatives and they have started to change the political landscape of democracies. The democratic institutions have seen substantial degradation, and Parliament is increasingly being treated as a rubber stamp.
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Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary | Toshio Meronek, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
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#BookHaul #Oops 😬
More poetry books, which I've somewhat neglected this year; and two biography/memoirs: 1: Brian Eno (so a soundtrack of glam rock phasing into art rock phasing into worldbeat phasing into ambient for that one, undoubtedly with some David Bowie slipped in); 2: an interview with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, veteran of the Stonewall Riots, and a Black, Trans activist, who I know nothing about and intend to rectify imminently!

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