![]() ![]() ![]() Grace says one motivation for writing the book was to unburden herself of the literal weight of her voluminous journals. ![]() “What voice do I listen to? What urge do I follow? I can never be anything more than a pervert dressed up in women’s clothes.” “I am completely lost,” begins a typical missive from 2004. That’s communicated most poignantly by the inclusion of pages ripped from the diaries Grace has kept for years. While Grace, now 35, came out as a trans person in Rolling Stone in 2012, only in the memoir does she reveal the complexity, and the unresolved ache, of her quest for self-acceptance. That cheeky phrase reflects the often misunderstood politics of Grace’s successful band, Against Me!, an outfit she formed as a teenage outcast while living in the benighted suburbs of Gainesville, Florida in the late 90s. The lacerating effects of those thoughts tear through nearly every page of Tranny, a book which takes as its subtitle Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sell-Out. ![]()
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