In May, VersoBooks published 'Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary,' a collection of oral histories assembled by tmeronek, who worked as personal assistant to immissmajor | ✍️ HMeltChicago
It’s increasingly rare that a day goes by, at the bookstore where I work, without someone asking for books on trans culture and stories reflecting our lives. People are always searching for literature as a guide on their path to freedom. Talking with trans youth about their days at school, recommending books to loving family members, helping people pick out gifts for friends recovering from surgery, and working with trans writers and legends is the part of my work that I most enjoy.
She would later walk in the balls herself. Black queer and trans nightlife was a lifeline to Major in opening doors to her self-expression. Ball culture also showed her a new way of forming family. In the book she remembers, “I knew Crystal Lebejia and the House of Xtravaganza when the ballroom scene started. The premise of houses looking out for their kids . . .
Major also disavows the whitewashing and centering of Stonewall within the queer and trans movement. She was at the Stonewall Riots, but is frustrated that “Stonewall for my girls wasn’t a monumental moment,” adding, “Most monuments are for one person, or one thing that some person did in their life.
While imprisoned at Dannemora, she met Frank “Big Black” Smith, who became a mentor and friend. She speaks lovingly of their relationship and credits him as the “instrument for my politicization. The first question Black asked me was, ‘What do you go by? What’s your name, baby?’ He’s the one that let me know that during things like the [Attica] riot or getting justice done, you can’t throw anybody under the bus. You can’t leave anyone behind.
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