Miss Major on Role Models

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a trans woman activist and community leader for transgender rights. She serves as the Executive Director for the Transgender GenderVariant Intersex Justice Project, which aims to assist transgender persons who are considered to be disproportionately incarcerated under a prison-industrial complex. Griffin-Gracy has participated in activism for a wide range of causes throughout her lifetime, including the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City and the Attica Prison riot in 1971.

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Identifier: pn89d671b
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
Publisher: Transgender Oral History Project
Date Issued: Jan. 4, 2015
Genre: Oral Histories
Subject(s): Miss Major
Topic(s): Adolescence
Communities
Older transgender people
Role models
Transgender people
Resource Type: Moving image
Language: English
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