12 Top nonfiction books like Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

4.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti…

"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situations. You are a stronger person because of the shit you've gone through."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situations. You are a stronger person because of the shit you've gone through."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Drag King Dreams

By: Leslie Feinberg

3.74

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

From award-winning and best-selling author, Leslie Feinberg, comes Drag King Dreams, the story of M… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Drag King Dreams book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • feminism
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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2. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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3. Stone Butch Blues

By: Leslie Feinberg

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • feminism
  • queer
  • lgbt

4. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

Similar categories in Cornel West's Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

5. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue

By: Leslie Feinberg

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. I… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

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6. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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7. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

By: Sophia Giovannitti

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An exploration into the very similar work of selling art and selling sex, from a luminous new voice… read more

Similar categories in Sophia Giovannitti's Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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8. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

By: Cynthia Carr

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Carr's Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • history
  • biography
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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9. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

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10. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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11. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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12. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By: Kit Heyam

4.30

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity   Today’s narratives about trans people … read more

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • history
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

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13. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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14. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

Similar categories in Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender? book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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15. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's A Short History of Trans Misogyny book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • history
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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16. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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17. Girlfriends

By: Emily Zhou

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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18. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

4.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more

Similar categories in Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • activism
  • queer
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

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19. Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist

By: Cecilia Gentili

4.69

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Cecilia Gentili reinvent… read more

Similar categories in Cecilia Gentili's Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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20. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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21. Love and Money, Sex and Death

By: McKenzie Wark

4.16

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

A transgender woman reflects on her late transition and coming out, trans politics and culture, mot… read more

Similar categories in McKenzie Wark's Love and Money, Sex and Death book and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer

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