Hey fam, it's me, Amara.

Welcome to the Translash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives.

Well, the Translash team is taking some needed time off this holiday season, so we've gone back into our bag, into the archive, and picked out some of our absolute favorite episodes that you might have missed, and which are really relevant to the moment that we're in.

So that's why I'm thrilled to share this conversation with the living legend Miss Major from

23. Now, one of the things that Miss Major embodies as her person is the ability to survive

the most challenging of times and still come out on top with your flair and your voice and your ability to

inspire. Always, always reach out and help your sister get on several grounds because the ground

is a level down there where we're all fighting for it.

And so we think that right now that her embodiment as coming from a time when our community was incredibly marginalized, even much more so now, but is still here and still leading us is still a really important lesson for us to all hold

in our hearts in this moment. So listen to my conversation with the iconic Miss Major.

But before we get to this incredible conversation with the incomparable. Major about her life of courageous activism

and our community's continued struggle to survive and thrive. Let's start out as always with

some trans joy. Many people have written about key moments of trans history, from the Compton's cafeteria riot to Stonewall.

But it's not often that we get to hear about the past from the people who were at the front lines.

Miss Major speaks, Conversations with the Black Trans Revolutionary is a memoir created in collaboration with journalist Toshio Maranick.

Toshio has written about critical LGBTQ issues for outlets like The Advocate and Al Jazeera.

But while working with Ms. Major on the memoir, they didn't just get to document a legendary figure in the history of trans liberation.

They also got to know the person behind the legend.

Here's Toshio to tell us more.

Major has like this special sort of empathy that so many people recognize when they meet her.

And she's also got this ability to make you feel like

you're the only person in the room. And I hope that I was able to put that on the page as

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