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Daily Vice: Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! Hits a Dab—No, Not That One

The punk singer also (sort of) talks about her relationship with Beatrice Martin from Coeur de Pirate.

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Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! has had a whirlwind few years in the public eye, to say the least; she has been a very public face for transgender issues since transitioning in 2012. But Grace is, as we found out, a big fan of weed. On a recent trip to Toronto, Grace sat down and smoked dabs with Fucked Up's lead singer, and cannabis connoisseur, Damian Abraham. In part one of her interview on Daily VICE, she spoke, rather candidly, about her relationship with

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Coeur de Pirate's Béatrice Martin

, her

forthcoming book, Tranny

, and the kind of nightmarish world she will soon be in talking about her past while on her book tour. Watch the full interview and read the Q&A below:​

Laura Jane Grace:

I probably first smoked weed when I was 13, 12 or 13 years old. I’d say like 7 or 8 years ago I became a daily smoker. I’m just a daily smoker now. In the way of self-medicating at first, I realized this was calming my anxiety when I was in really stressful situations. But then to the point of being told by doctors that I needed to go on heavy anti-depressants and not wanting to, refusing that, and turning to weed instead. If I had gone through heavy periods of time of drinking, I would be like, “I need to stop drinking.” And I'll smoke weed instead.

Damian Abraham: Being in the media and looking at, you know, yourself now in a relationship that’s covered as a news story.
It’s pretty fucking weird.

It’s fucking weird, eh!
That’s all I can really say. It’s pretty fucking weird. It’s fucked up on the one side of that, though, like, Béatrice has definitely taken flack, you know, for dating a trans person. It’s shitty to see someone go through or get criticism, and you know, people being shitty and transphobic towards her. But let’s not focus on that.

So I brought it up earlier but you have a book coming out. Without going into too many spoilers, tell me about the book.
Well, it all started in 1980 when I was born. [laughs] No, I have a memoir coming out in the fall. My book is gives me the fear that I ruined my life absolutely with it coming out, like I’m afraid of my book when it comes out. It’s really heavy to talk about in a promotional way.

And that’s the thing: you have to tour it now and talk about it every day.
That’s the plan for November. [laughs] Think about that! Every day you have to relive your past, your whole fucking existence.

It must be cathartic.
Yeah but there’s the feeling of I’m done with the past. I don’t want to think about it anymore. So the idea of talking about it a lot is hard to take on right now. But I have a book coming out and I’d love to send you a copy.

I would love to read it. I look forward to reading it.