MAJOR! celebrates trans 'mama' Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Pioneering trans activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy gets her due in a new documentary about her life and work.
Before Laverne Cox or Janet Mock, there was Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. Known to many simply as "mama", Miss Major is a trans elder and activist who blazed the trail for other high-profile transgender women of colour.
For nearly five decades — long before the magazine articles and TV shows — she's been winning allies and stretching resources in support of trans rights.
Now MAJOR!, a new documentary about her life and extraordinary work, chronicles everything from her role in the Stonewall uprising, to her HIV outreach work in the 1990s, to her support for trans women in prison.
In the lead up to the film's screening at the Inside Out film festival in Toronto, Miss Major and director Annalise Ophelian join Shad in studio q.
