{"id":464,"date":"2018-02-28T23:15:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T04:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/?p=464"},"modified":"2018-02-28T23:15:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T04:15:33","slug":"major-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/major-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Major!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While watching the film <i>Major!<\/i> directed by Annalise Ophelian, I learned about the work of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Before viewing this film, I had never heard of the work of Miss Major or the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hearing about the conditions that many transgender men and women are subjected to in prison was jarring and appalling.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They are commonly sexually assaulted and forced to say in solitary confinement for extended periods of time.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The personal help that Miss Major extended to trans individuals who were recently released from prison was especially touching.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>She is truly selfless and she deserves so much more recognition.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>She was present at Stonewall, she organized the creation of an AIDS garden in honor of veterans with AIDS, and contributed greatly to the campaign for HIV prevention and treatment with the Tenderloin Aids Resource Center.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This film left me wondering about which other amazing LGBTQ activists I haven\u2019t learned about and who haven\u2019t received the widespread recognition that they deserve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>-RF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While watching the film Major! directed by Annalise Ophelian, I learned about the work of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy.\u00a0 Before viewing this film, I had never heard of the work of Miss Major or the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP).\u00a0 Hearing about the conditions that many transgender men and women are subjected to in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/major-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Major!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}