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DESCRIPTION:7:00 p.m.\nTranscending Identities: Navigating Multiple Identities Through 
 Our Society\nGuest Speaker: Miss Major\nLocation: Engineering Building, 
 Room 189, 1st Floor\n\nMiss Major is a black, formerly incarcerated, 
 male-to-female transgender elder. She has been an activist and advocate in 
 her community for over forty years, mentoring and empowering many of 
 today’s transgender leaders to stand tall, step into their own power, and 
 defend their human rights, from coast to coast.\n\nMiss Major was at the 
 Stonewall uprisings in ’69, and became politicized in the aftermath at 
 Attica, has worked at HIV/AIDS organizations throughout California, was an 
 original member of the first all-transgender gospel choir and is a father, 
 mother, grandmother, and grandfather to her own children and to many in the 
 transgender community.\n\nShe has given speeches and trainings to audiences 
 of transgender and non-transgender people and has received numerous awards 
 for her work.  In 2008, she testified at the CERD committee to the United 
 Nations in Geneva, Switzerland about the abuses of transgender women of 
 color in and out of the Prison Industrial Complex here in the 
 US.\n\nCurrently, Miss Major is the Executive Director of the TGI Justice 
 Project where she instills hope and a belief in a better future to the 
 girls that are currently incarcerated and those coming home.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/20/18661849.php
SUMMARY:TransAction Week: Transcending Identities with Miss Major
LOCATION:Engineering Bldg, Room 189, 1st Floor, San Jose State University
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/20/18661849.php
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