Hey there, it's me, Amara Jones.

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

Well, October is LGBTQ History Month.

It's a month-long celebration of our history, hence the name, that's celebrated in the United States and around the world. But so often history can seem something that's removed.

It's black and white. It's a grainy picture from the past. It seems like something that's not tangible.

So this year we wanted to talk to someone who is living history, who can make all of that so real for each of us.

And the answer to this question, when we kept coming back to it over and over, of who to to talk to is the one and only Miss Major.

Ms. Major has lived an incredible life.

She's fought so many battles for herself and our entire community, and we are so excited to be

able to have a conversation with her about her life, all that our community has faced, what it is facing now and in the future,

and why she is calling on each of us

to fight now more than ever.

Always, always, reach out and help your sister

get on level ground,

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

But before we get to this incredible conversation with the incomparable Ms. 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 for the Black Trans Revolutionary is a memoir created in collaboration with journalist

Toshio Marenic. 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

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