Reading
Other Countries, Black Queer Expression, 2024 Winter Solstice Reading
Please join us in celebrating the release of Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary (Verso, 2023).
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 a 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 face on the path to liberation today. For this Dis/Course, Miss Major will read from the book and after, she and coauthor Toshio Meronek will discuss critical themes that surface in the text, including envisioning freedom beyond mainstream institutions and nonprofit organizing.
The event is free with registration. Masks will be required and books will be available.
This event will also be livestreamed for free on The Poetry Project's YouTube channel.
