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Miss Major
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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Miss Major is a veteran of the Stonewall Rebellion and a survivor of Attica State Prison, a former sex worker, an elder, and a community leader and human rights activist.
Miss Major’s personal story and activism for transgender civil rights intersects LGBTQ struggles for justice and equality from the 1960s to today.At the center of her activism is her fierce advocacy for her girls, trans women of color who have survived police brutality and incarceration in men’s jails and prisons.Miss Major is the former Executive Director of the San Francisco-based Transgender Gender-Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), which advocates for trans women of color in and outside of prison.
Miss Major’s first speaking appearance in Toronto was an opportunity to have a conversation with award-winning documentary filmmaker Annalise Ophelian in honour of the Toronto Premiere of MAJOR!, the feature documentary about her life and campaigns, and a historic opportunity to meet and speak with a true mother of the LGBTQ civil rights movement.
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