A review by bashsbooks
Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Times of a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Miss Major Speaks... and we need to listen to her. Her words are invigorating and empowering - she's full of opinions, no doubt, and her takes are solid as can be. From prison abolition, to sex work, to HIV/AIDS activism, to racial and gender jusitice, she's been in the thick of it. She's given her positions a lot of thought and has reasons for every one of them. 

By her own account, she's done just about everything, too. I can't explain how emotional it makes me to hear an elder trans woman talk about her life and work. She says that she's honored to be seen as a mother and grandmother in the community; I'm just as honored to call her by those titles.

And this conversational text wouldn't be complete without Toshio Meronek's guiding questions and their intimate relationship to Miss Major. It really lets her shine in a way that a more traditional biographical piece wouldn't allow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Confinement, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Police brutality, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Murder, and Colonisation

Minor: Deadnaming, Racial slurs, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, and Death of parent

-Queerphobia -Queer slurs -Whorephobia -Imprisonment, including solitary confinement