Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

Grace, Laura Jane

ISBN 10: 1478943378 ISBN 13: 9781478943372

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2016

Synopsis

If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman/ My mother once told me she would have named me Laura/ I would grow up to be strong and beautiful like her. The OceanA searing account of her search for identity and true self, Tranny reveals the struggles and victories that Laura Jane Grace, the lead singer of the cult punk rock band Against Me! experienced in her quest for gender transition.Illuminated by Laura Jane s never-before-published journal entries reaching back to childhood, Tranny is an intensely personal and revelatory look inside her struggles with identity and addiction. Grappling with everything from sex, drugs, failed marriages, music, and soul of a punk rock star, this memoir paints a vivid portrait of one of the most revolutionary transgender icons of our time.

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Laura Jane Grace shows great bravery diving into every detail of a story seldom told, with the advantage of having kept journals documenting everything she went through, from childhood to the beginnings of her band. Capturing the pain and struggle, self-doubt and lack of support she experienced, Grace provides a valuable starting point for a conversation to broaden the understanding of, and empathy for, trans people. (Joan Jett, Billboard's 100 Greatest Music Books of All Time)

An ambassador for the gender revolution currently sweeping through public restroom policy and National Geographic covers [and] a potent tool for empathy that hasn't quite existed in pop culture....Grace and co-writer Dan Ozzi spin green room drama and rock star recklessness into a gem of a rock bio that belongs on a shelf alongside Hammer of the Gods and Get in the Van. (Paste Magazine, Best Nonfiction Books of 2016)

A full-length tell-all about Grace's lifelong journey to discovering, accepting, and at last publicly acknowledging her true identity....[told] with daring candor...the memoir establishes her as at once a transgender icon and a modern day heroine. (Harper's Bazaar, Best Books of November)

A savagely candid transgender memoir, and thus far, the only quintessential text regarding Against Me!--one of the most significant punk bands of the aughts and onward. Without a smidgen of sarcasm, I would highly recommend the book to your grandmother, even if she is afraid of transpeople and can't name three Clash songs. (Esquire)

Book Description

The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me!, provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Pub
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478943378
• ISBN 13: 9781478943372
• Binding: Audio CD