COURTESY OF MISS MAJOR via SF Weekly – Miss Major at the Ark of Refuge in the 1990s
It is impossible to sum up Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, BKA Miss Major, and her importance not just to the trans-liberation movement but to human progress as a whole. She has been a vocal and revolutionary leader of prison reform, even at the risk of her own safety, and in what can only be described as a miracle, survived the systematic and unrelenting violence of living in a white supremacist capitalist patriarchy for a fierce 76 years!
And yet, here we are 48 years after the Stonewall riots (in which she participated), 17 years after the formation of TGI Justice (where she was amongst the earliest employees), and $118,000 dollars short of her retirement fund.
What will you do to help honor this bastion of human civilization?
We are celebrating our queer and trans leaders for Black History Month starting with the incomparable 
