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

Grace, Laura Jane

  • 4.32 out of 5 stars
    11,172 ratings by Goodreads
 
9781478943372: Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

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.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Authors

Laura Jane Grace is a transgender musician best known as the founder, lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the punk rock band Against Me! Since coming out as transgender in a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, she has become an outspoken advocate for transgender awareness. Grace has a daughter and lives in Chicago.



Dan Ozzi is a New York-based writer and has served as the editor of VICE's music site, Noisey.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title