Early in my interview with legendary trans rocker Laura Jane Grace, I can’t help but fawn over her 2016 memoir “Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout,” which details Grace’s struggles with addiction and her very public transition.

“‘Tranny’ is really junkie-prose adjacent,” I tell her, explaining I cut my literary teeth on the late punk poet Jim Carroll and other drug-fueled autobiographies. Unexpectedly, my heart drops to my gut, hoping she catches the reference. “Oh yeah, right on,” she says, laughing. I’m instantly relieved.

Knowing her rocky relationship with journalists, I tell her I don’t want to fuck it up. I reference this excerpt of her memoir: “I hate interviews. They feel like homework and I’m just trying to guess the right answers so the journalis

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