Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: FS.E 7. GS.OS Mero / College 3b - Englisch / Regal 312-315	Status: Entliehen	Frist: 08.10.2024	Vorbestellungen: 0

2024 Stonewall Honor Award for Nonfiction

 

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 America’s first needle exchange clinics from the back of her van.

 

Miss Major Speaks is both document of her brilliant life–told 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.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction: TILIFI1

I Stonewall Never Happened

1 The Powers That Be33

2 The Law Has Never Protected Us43

3 Nobody's Token Black Bitch59

II Fuck a Butterfly. Embrace the Caterpillar.

4 Embrace the Brick77

5 Passing Was Never the Goal93

6 Late-Night Epiphanies with Big Black from Attica111

III The Keys to Our Fucking Survival

7 No Matter How Small Your World Feels125

8 Allies, Be Visible!135

9 Do What You Have to Do to See the Next Day143

IV Miss Major Futurism

10 Today and Later Tonight153

Acknowledgments161