Welcome to Litsy!

A quick and powerful read. It's got guts and heart: visceral and emotional. The conversations are between Miss Major and her assistant/found-grandchild Toshio, and it's like sitting around the table with them hearing these incredible, heartbreaking, heartwarming stories.
Her life has often been hard, & her language reflects the places she's been and experiences she's survived and thrived after. An important addition to Black Trans History 5✨🏳️‍⚧️

“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.”

“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 social hierarchy, from which they can look down on us and make sure we don't fuck with the money and privilege they hoard.”

#BookHaul #Oops 😬
More poetry books, which I've somewhat neglected this year; and two biography/memoirs: 1: Brian Eno (so a soundtrack of glam rock phasing into art rock phasing into worldbeat phasing into ambient for that one, undoubtedly with some David Bowie slipped in); 2: an interview with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, veteran of the Stonewall Riots, and a Black, Trans activist, who I know nothing about and intend to rectify imminently!