Laura Jane Grace

Grace was born in Fort Benning, Georgia,{{cite tweet|last=Grace|first=Laura Jane|user=LauraJaneGrace|number=1024353386827792384|date=31 July 2018|title=I was born in Chattahoochee County, Georgia. Everything I do is alt-country by default}} the eldest child of United States Army Major Thomas Gabel and Bonnie Gabel (née Grace). Grace has a brother named Mark, who is six years younger.{{rp|4}}{{cite news|last1=Raftery|first1=Brian|title=Against Me!: Sunshine State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ezn8AaqFtHUC&q=%22tom+gabel%22&pg=PA79|work=SPIN|date=August 2007|pages=79–82|language=en|access-date=2020-11-14|archive-date=2021-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210404235515/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ezn8AaqFtHUC&q=%22tom+gabel%22&pg=PA79|url-status=live}} The family moved frequently between military bases due to their father's military career, living briefly in Fort Hood, Texas; Pennsylvania; Ohio; Germany; and at a NATO post in Naples, Italy, during the Gulf War.{{cite news|last1=Briggs|first1=Newt|title=Music: Anarchy in the USA: Against Me! on record deals, demolition and Dubya|url=http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2003/MERC-Nov-06-Thu-2003/22494811.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216091720/http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2003/MERC-Nov-06-Thu-2003/22494811.html|archive-date=16 February 2012|work=Las Vegas Mercury|date=6 November 2003}}{{cite news|last1=Martinez|first1=Cecilia|title=Interview with Against Me!: Crosses To Bear|url=http://www.theaquarian.com/2010/06/03/interview-with-against-me-crosses-to-bear/|work=The Aquarian Weekly|date=3 June 2010|access-date=22 March 2016|archive-date=3 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403122618/http://www.theaquarian.com/2010/06/03/interview-with-against-me-crosses-to-bear/|url-status=live}} When she was 8 years old while living in Italy, Grace bought her first guitar from Sears mail order with money saved from mowing lawns. Grace initially took guitar lessons from an army officer's wife, but ended up teaching herself how to play.{{cite web|url=http://loudwire.com/against-me-laura-jane-grace-chronicles-first-year-as-a-woman/|title=Against Me! Frontwoman Laura Jane Grace Chronicles Her First Year as a Woman|website=Loudwire|date=10 April 2013 |access-date=2016-03-23|archive-date=2016-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404104742/http://loudwire.com/against-me-laura-jane-grace-chronicles-first-year-as-a-woman/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Maron|first1=Marc|last2=Grace|first2=Laura Jane|title=Episode 617: Laura Jane Grace|url=http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_617_-_laura_jane_grace|work=WTF with Marc Maron|date=6 July 2015|format=Audio interview|access-date=6 July 2015|archive-date=8 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708042027/http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_617_-_laura_jane_grace|url-status=live}}

When she was 12 years old, Grace's parents had an acrimonious divorce, which led to Grace and her brother moving with their mom from Naples, Italy – where their father remained – to Naples, Florida, to live with their maternal grandmother.{{cite magazine |last=Swanner |first=Rebecca |title=Q & A with Tom Gabel from Against Me! |magazine=Inked |year=2008 |url=http://www.inkedmag.com/articles/detail/136/q-a-with-tom-gabel-from-against-me/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118163052/http://www.inkedmag.com/articles/detail/136/q-a-with-tom-gabel-from-against-me/ |archive-date=January 18, 2009 |access-date=May 16, 2012}} In contrast to her time in Italy, Grace has said that moving to Florida was a difficult adjustment. Constantly bullied at school, Grace was drinking alcohol and taking drugs by age 13, substances which included pot, LSD, and cocaine. Grace was arrested for possession of marijuana at 14 and went on to struggle with addiction for years. Grace also regularly skipped school, eventually dropping out of high school.{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/04/04/522581237/for-laura-jane-grace-punk-was-a-form-of-armor|title=For Laura Jane Grace, Punk Was A Form Of Armor|website=NPR.org|access-date=2017-04-13|archive-date=2017-04-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170412080721/http://www.npr.org/2017/04/04/522581237/for-laura-jane-grace-punk-was-a-form-of-armor|url-status=live}}

Grace has suffered from depression, attributing her "first memorable bout" to feelings of gender dysphoria after her first sexual relationship. She also noted that depression occurs in both sides of her family, with her grandmother (also called Grace) being admitted to hospital regularly.{{rp|17}}

While in junior high school Grace became a fan of punk rock, attracted to the nihilistic and anarchistic ideals of the genre. At age 13, she played bass in her first band, known as both the Black Shadows and the Leather Dice as they had never agreed on a name. The band was formed with members of her youth group at church. Their first gigs were at church talent shows playing Nirvana and Pearl Jam covers.{{rp|5–6}}{{Cite web|url=http://music.allaccess.com/an-interview-with-against-mes-front-woman-laura-jane-grace-about-the-bands-next-album-her-book-and-more/|title=An Interview With AGAINST ME!'s Front-Woman LAURA JANE GRACE About The Band's Next Album, Her Book And More! {{!}} All Access Music|website=music.allaccess.com|date=24 August 2016|access-date=2016-09-21|archive-date=2016-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923015537/http://music.allaccess.com/an-interview-with-against-mes-front-woman-laura-jane-grace-about-the-bands-next-album-her-book-and-more/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title = Episode 47 - Laura Jane Grace ( Against Me! )|url = https://audioboom.com/boos/3638556-episode-47-laura-jane-grace-against-me|website = audioBoom|access-date = 2016-01-22|archive-date = 2016-03-09|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160309130120/https://audioboom.com/boos/3638556-episode-47-laura-jane-grace-against-me|url-status = live}}

An arrest at age 14 crystallized her aversion to authority: having gone to the beach on Independence Day 1995 to watch fireworks, "I walked up on the boardwalk, and a cop was like 'Hey, get off the boardwalk; you're blocking the flow of traffic'. So I turned around and got off, and he came up to me again and was like, 'Get off the boardwalk.' And I was like 'I'm off the boardwalk.{{' "}} Grace said she was then slammed into a police car, thrown face-first to the pavement, jumped on, hogtied, put in a holding cell, and not allowed to call her mother.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/transcripts/522581237 |title=For Laura Jane Grace, Punk Was A Form Of Armor |publisher=NPR |access-date=1 February 2024}}{{Cite web|url=http://on.aol.com/shows/true-trans-shw518250660-518451031?context=SH:SHW518250660:SHW518250660-166284:1459007582992|title=Growing Up|website=aol.on|access-date=2016-03-26|archive-date=2016-04-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409001141/http://on.aol.com/shows/true-trans-shw518250660-518451031?context=SH:SHW518250660:SHW518250660-166284:1459007582992|url-status=live}} She was charged with resisting arrest and battery, placed under house arrest for the summer, and required to do 180 hours of community service. Grace said her arrest and charges were all because "I was a dirty, grubby little punk kid with black spiky hair who hadn't washed his pants in a year." Grace's mother, who could ill afford to hire an attorney, hired one who took the case to court and lost. Grace was charged as an adult and ultimately convicted of both felonies. Grace later said the experience "changed my life. [It] politicized me."{{cite web |title=Tom Gabel Discusses 'I Was a Teenage Anarchist' |publisher=Punknews.org |date=May 17, 2010 |url=http://www.punknews.org/article/38304 |access-date=May 16, 2012 |archive-date=June 7, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607225251/http://www.punknews.org/article/38304 |url-status=live }} "I have an inherent distrust of mankind. I think authority and government base their power on violence. I refuse to recognize anyone's power over me."

After that incident, Grace came to identify with British anarcho-punk band Crass, calling them "to me, the best band to ever blend music and politics": "I felt like Crass' music legitimately made a change. They really backed up what they were doing. I saw that writing a song against something was just as valid as standing on a street corner holding a sign."

Grace befriended James Bowman when they met on their first day of freshman year at Naples High School; the two have been close ever since. "We were both punk rock kids with spiky hair and more belts than necessary", recalls Bowman. "We just hung out and smoked pot and did normal kid things." Grace's first tattoo—a Crass logo on the right ankle—was done by Bowman, though she later covered it up with a tattoo of the Rebel Alliance symbol because Bowman had been drunk and inked it sloppily.

At age 16, Grace published a zine called "Misanthrope", which dealt mostly with political issues of the time. The "highlight of her career" was interviewing Bobby Seale.{{Citation|title = Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight: FULL INTERVIEW|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnZppZ6CBSg|date = 2014-04-10|access-date = 2016-01-22|last = Strombo|archive-date = 2016-01-22|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160122051841/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnZppZ6CBSg|url-status = live}}

Grace played bass in a band called the Adversaries with Dustin Fridkin and a "revolving cast" of drummers from 1994 to 1996. The lineups were not stable, and the band had various names, including the Snot Rockets, Upper Crust, and eventually the Adversaries. The Adversaries released one (obscure) demo. Their "crowning achievement as a band" (according to Grace) was playing at "The Hardback" in Gainesville, Florida. The breakup of the Adversaries led to Grace briefly playing in a band called Common Affliction in 1996. The ending of Common Affliction led to Grace recording the first Against Me! demo tape in December 1996.{{Cite news|title = Punked|url = http://www.naplesnews.com/community/punked-ep-406288976-331434391.html?d=mobile|website = www.naplesnews.com|access-date = 2016-01-27|archive-date = 2016-02-03|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160203181852/http://www.naplesnews.com/community/punked-ep-406288976-331434391.html?d=mobile|url-status = live}}

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In 1997, at age 17, Grace dropped out of high school and began writing songs, naming the musical project Against Me!.{{cite web |last=Monger |first=Christopher |title=Biography: Tom Gabel |website=Allmusic |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/tom-gabel-p616858 |access-date=May 15, 2012 |archive-date=April 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418113151/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/tom-gabel-p616858 |url-status=live }} Moving to Gainesville, Florida, at 18, she began performing as Against Me!, either alone on an acoustic guitar or with friend Kevin Mahon accompanying by drumming on pickle buckets. Her songs drew influence from early acoustic protest music, covering topics such as class struggle.{{cite web |last=Loftus |first=Johnny |title=Biography: Against Me! |website=Allmusic |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/against-me-p603214/biography |access-date=May 15, 2012 |archive-date=April 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210404235518/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/against-me%21-mn0000501860 |url-status=live }} Early Against Me! shows were played at dive bars, laundromats, and anywhere else that would allow Grace to perform, to audiences of a few or even zero. Making ends meet by working odd jobs, dumpster diving, selling blood plasma, and living in a low-rent house with twelve roommates across the street from an experimental waste dump, Grace also volunteered with nonprofit socialist groups such as Food Not Bombs. She was arrested again at 18 for obstruction of justice and resisting arrest without violence: "I was picking up [Mahon]. He was like, 'Pop the trunk—I want to throw some stuff in there.' I was waiting in the car and I saw two cop cars come up behind me. I got out and they had my friend on the ground. I went up to the first officer I saw and said, 'Excuse me, officer, what's going on?' He's like, 'Down on the ground—you're going to jail.' I started to ask another question and he grabbed me, slammed me into the cop car, and arrested me."

In 2000, Grace convinced Bowman to move to Gainesville and began teaching him how to play Against Me! songs on guitar. After some early EP releases, Against Me! developed into a full band consisting of Grace, Bowman, bassist Dustin Fridkin, and drummer Warren Oakes. Their debut album, Against Me! Is Reinventing Axl Rose, was released in 2002 through local independent record label No Idea Records. With Fridkin replaced by Andrew Seward, the band signed to DIY indie record label Fat Wreck Chords for 2003's Against Me! as the Eternal Cowboy and 2005's Searching for a Former Clarity. The name As the Eternal Cowboy was symbolic of the old fashioned concept of the Western cowboy, always wandering the plains lost and lonely. It was envisioned by Grace as a concept record about love and war. Searching sold over 65,000 copies and was their first album to chart on the Billboard 200, reaching 114.{{cite web|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=against me!|chart=all}} |title=Against Me! Album & Song Chart History: Billboard 200 |publisher=Billboard charts |access-date=June 17, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616092102/http://www.billboard.com/ |archive-date=June 16, 2010 |url-status=live }} Against Me! supported it with a tour of all 50 U.S. states.

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As Against Me!'s popularity increased, Grace felt alienated from the male-centric punk scene: "With the band especially, I felt more and more like I was putting on an act – like I was being shoved into this role of 'angry white man in a punk band.{{' "}} The stresses of the band's tour schedule, coupled with going through a divorce at age 24, contributed to her addiction: "I was just getting fucked up all the time: drinking, drugs, whatever. I felt unhealthy and depressed about so many things". Throughout this time Grace made oblique references to gender dysphoria in song lyrics, including "The Disco Before the Breakdown" ("I know they're going to laugh at us / when they see us out together 'holding hands' like this"), "Violence" ("You've been keeping secrets ... Nothing but shame and paranoia"), and "Searching for a Former Clarity" ("In the journal you kept by the side of your bed ... confessing childhood secrets of dressing up in women's clothes / Compulsions you never knew the reasons to").{{cite journal |last1 = Carella | first1 = Kristen|last2 = Wymer | first2 = Kathryn| title = 'Tonight we're gonna give it 35%': expressions of transgender identity in the early work of Laura Jane Grace | journal = Journal of Gender Studies | pages = 257–268| publisher = Taylor & Francis | date = 17 April 2019 | volume = 29| issue = 3| issn =1465-3869 | doi = 10.1080/09589236.2019.1604325 | s2cid = 151096371 |url=https://www.academia.edu/38721308}} To help escape the stress and depression, Grace spent 18 months living in hotels on the outskirts of Gainesville while writing the next Against Me! album.{{cite web |title=Artist Interview: Against Me! |publisher=Mammoth Press |date=August 20, 2007 |url=http://mammothpress.com/index.php?area=readinterview&pid=156 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022204404/http://mammothpress.com/index.php?area=readinterview&pid=156 |archive-date=October 22, 2007 |access-date=May 17, 2012}}

In December 2005, Against Me! signed to Sire Records, a subsidiary of the Warner Music Group. With increased mainstream exposure, Grace swore off cross-dressing and other expressions of femininity: "You go through periods of binging and purging. I was 25, we were about to go on a long period of touring, and I was like, 'That's it. I'm getting rid of all this. I'm male, and that's it.{{' "}}

Against Me!'s first major-label album, 2007's New Wave, brought the band mainstream success: It debuted at no. 57 on the Billboard 200; featured their first charting single, "Thrash Unreal", which reached no. 11 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart; and was named as Spin's album of the year.{{cite web|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=against me!|chart=Alternative Songs}} |title=Against Me! Album & Song Chart History: Alternative Songs |publisher=Billboard charts |access-date=June 22, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100622085225/http://www.billboard.com/ |archive-date=June 22, 2010 |url-status=dead }}{{cite magazine |last=Kandell |first=Steve |title=Album of the Year: Against Me! |magazine=Spin |date=January 1, 2008 |url=https://www.spin.com/2008/01/album-year-against-me/ |access-date=May 10, 2012 |archive-date=July 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714024750/http://www.spin.com/2008/01/album-year-against-me/ |url-status=live }} The song "The Ocean" directly referenced Grace's gender dysphoria, with the lyrics "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 / One day I'd find an honest man to make my husband".{{cite web |last=Minsker |first=Evan |title=Against Me!'s Tom Gabel Comes Out as Transgender |publisher=Pitchfork Media |date=May 8, 2012 |url=http://www.pitchfork.com/news/46454-against-mes-tom-gabel-comes-out-as-transgender/ |access-date=May 8, 2012 |archive-date=May 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511225757/http://www.pitchfork.com/news/46454-against-mes-tom-gabel-comes-out-as-transgender/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Montgomery |first=James |title=Tom Gabel Comes Out as Transgender: In Praise of Bravery |publisher=MTV |work=mtv.com |date=May 9, 2012 |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1684777/tom-gabel-against-me-transgender-praise.jhtml |access-date=May 10, 2012 |archive-date=May 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511163733/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1684777/tom-gabel-against-me-transgender-praise.jhtml |url-status=dead }} Though Grace anticipated "completely outing myself" with the song, no one involved with the band seemed to pick up on the lyrics' literal meaning. She also wanted to cross-dress in the music video for "Thrash Unreal", but the label's A&R representative vetoed the idea.

In August 2007, Grace was arrested in Tallahassee, Florida, on charges of battery, following a confrontation with a coffee shop patron after Grace tore down an article about Against Me! that had been hung up and defaced to mock the band.{{cite magazine |last=Gottlieb |first=Akiva |title=Political Punk: Rage Against the Band |magazine=The Nation |date=October 15, 2007 |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/political-punk-rage-against-band |access-date=May 16, 2012 |archive-date=January 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122010108/http://www.thenation.com/article/political-punk-rage-against-band |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Tom Gabel of Against Me! Arrested |publisher=Punknews.org |date=August 14, 2007 |url=http://www.punknews.org/article/25078 |access-date=May 16, 2012 |archive-date=August 30, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830051028/http://www.punknews.org/article/25078 |url-status=live }} Grace allegedly knocked a cup out of the man's hand, then forced his head into the wooden counter. She admitted to intentionally knocking over the cup but denied hitting the man, and was released on bail the following morning. "We were playing at this place The Beta Bar," she said, "and this coffee shop next door was having a protest show against ours. I mean... go protest the fucking war!"{{cite web |last=Paul |first=Aubin |title=Against Me! Talks About Tallahassee Incident, Conflicts with DIY Fans |publisher=Punknews.org |date=October 2, 2007 |url=http://www.punknews.org/article/25834 |access-date=May 16, 2012 |archive-date=October 7, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007203451/http://www.punknews.org/article/25834 |url-status=live }}

Grace's solo EP, Heart Burns, was released in October 2008.{{cite news |last=Brown |first=August |title=His Six Strings Ring Out Opinions |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=October 25, 2008 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-oct-25-et-againstme25-story.html |access-date=May 16, 2012 |archive-date=May 22, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522211842/http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/25/entertainment/et-againstme25 |url-status=live }} Timed to coincide with that year's United States presidential election, the EP's songs addressed the country's political and economic climate, criticizing presidential candidate John McCain and the trial of environmental activist Eric McDavid. "I wanted to do something that was the complete opposite of New Wave in the sense of approach", she said. "I didn't want to really think about it. I didn't want to obsess about anything. I just wanted to go in and play songs. I wanted to record because it'll be fun, and that's what this is supposed to be about." Grace supported the EP by performing on The Revival Tour with Chuck Ragan of Hot Water Music, Tim Barry of Avail, and Ben Nichols of Lucero.

Against Me!'s fifth studio album, White Crosses, was released in 2010 and became their most successful, reaching no. 34 on the Billboard 200. By that September, however, Grace began taking week-long writing trips alone, checking into hotels dressed as a woman and writing a concept album titled Transgender Dysphoria Blues, about a transsexual prostitute. The record was positively received.{{cite news|last1=Caramanica|first1=Jon|title=Gender Politics Wiggles Into a World Guys Staked Out|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/arts/music/against-me-with-laura-jane-grace-rings-in-a-new-album.html|work=The New York Times|date=10 January 2014|language=en|access-date=3 August 2018|archive-date=3 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803074457/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/arts/music/against-me-with-laura-jane-grace-rings-in-a-new-album.html|url-status=live}}

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Against Me! cancelled a series of tour dates in October and November 2010 due to "a culmination of circumstances engulfing us", and left Sire/Warner.{{cite web |last=White |first=Adam |title=Against Me! Leave Sire/Warner |publisher=Punknews.org |date=November 29, 2010 |url=http://www.punknews.org/article/40752 |access-date=May 17, 2012 |archive-date=December 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111225034347/http://www.punknews.org/article/40752 |url-status=live }}

In 2011, Grace purchased an abandoned post office in Elkton, Florida, converted it into a recording studio called Total Treble and launched an accompanying record label for future Against Me! releases, Total Treble Music.{{cite web |last=Strummer |first=Brittany |title=Against Me! Announce New Record Label Total Treble Music |publisher=Punknews.org |date=June 3, 2011 |url=http://www.punknews.org/article/42893 |access-date=May 17, 2012 |archive-date=September 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905233939/http://www.punknews.org/article/42893 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Cherrie |first=Chrysta |title=Review: Giant Orange |website=Allmusic |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/giant-orange-r2381055/review |access-date=May 18, 2012 |archive-date=April 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210404235521/https://www.allmusic.com/album/giant-orange-mw0002290460 |url-status=live }} The first album recorded at the studio was Cheap Girls' Giant Orange (2012), which also marked Grace's first experience as a record producer.{{cite magazine |last=Marchese |first=David |title=First Spin: Hear Cheap Girls' Tom Gabel-Produced 'Communication Blues' |magazine=Spin |url=https://www.spin.com/2012/01/first-spin-hear-cheap-girls-tom-gabel-produced-communication-blues/ |access-date=May 18, 2012 |archive-date=April 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210404235521/https://www.spin.com/2012/01/first-spin-hear-cheap-girls-tom-gabel-produced-communication-blues/ |url-status=live }} Total Treble Studio closed in 2013 after being destroyed in a storm.{{cite magazine|last1=Morris|first1=Alex|title=Laura Jane Grace: A Trans Punk Rocker's Fight to Rebuild Her Life|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/laura-jane-grace-a-trans-punk-rockers-fight-to-rebuild-her-life-111470/|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=8 September 2016|access-date=3 August 2018|archive-date=3 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803074408/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/laura-jane-grace-a-trans-punk-rockers-fight-to-rebuild-her-life-111470/|url-status=live}}

In spring 2012, Grace performed on the Revival Tour with Chuck Ragan and Cory Branan.

In July 2018, it was announced that Grace would release an album in the fall of 2018 under the name "Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers" on Chicago-based Bloodshot Records. The record, Bought to Rot, was made with bassist Marc Jacob Hudson and drummer Atom Willard (Against Me!, Angels & Airwaves, The Offspring). The release included a tour with a three night weekly residency in Chicago.{{cite magazine|last1=Blistein|first1=Jon|title=Laura Jane Grace Announces Tour, Album With New Band|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/laura-jane-grace-announces-tour-album-with-new-band-705244/|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=31 July 2018|access-date=2018-11-30|archive-date=2018-08-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816125715/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/laura-jane-grace-announces-tour-album-with-new-band-705244/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Minsker|first1=Evan|title=Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers Announce New Album and Tour|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/laura-jane-grace-and-the-devouring-mothers-announce-new-album-and-tour/|work=Pitchfork|date=31 July 2018|language=en|access-date=2018-11-30|archive-date=2018-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021120714/https://pitchfork.com/news/laura-jane-grace-and-the-devouring-mothers-announce-new-album-and-tour/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|author=Kot, Greg|title=The story behind Laura Jane Grace's 'I Hate Chicago' song|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ott-laura-jane-grace-interview-1102-story.html|work=Chicago Tribune|date=1 November 2018|language=en|access-date=2018-11-30|author-link=Greg Kot|archive-date=2018-11-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129221552/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ott-laura-jane-grace-interview-1102-story.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|author=Sherman, Maria|title=Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace on Motherhood, Musical Non-Monogamy and American Decline|url=https://themuse.jezebel.com/against-me-s-laura-jane-grace-on-motherhood-musical-no-1830339626|work=The Muse, at Jezebel|date=14 November 2018|language=en|access-date=2018-11-30|archive-date=2019-08-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823065644/https://themuse.jezebel.com/against-me-s-laura-jane-grace-on-motherhood-musical-no-1830339626|url-status=live}}

Grace released Stay Alive in 2020, her debut solo studio album. The album was written and recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Grace was left without the ability to record with her band Against Me!, and thus made a solo album instead.{{cite web |last=Minsker |first=Evan |date=October 1, 2020 |title=Laura Jane Grace Surprise Releases New Album Stay Alive: Listen |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/laura-jane-grace-surprise-releases-new-album-stay-alive-listen/ |access-date=September 27, 2021 |work=Pitchfork}} The album was recorded over three days in Steve Albini's studio in Chicago. Stay Alive was released as a surprise album with no promotion. While touring, Grace wrote her second solo album, Hole In My Head. The eponymous lead single was released in October 2023, with the b-side Dysphoria Hoodie. The album was released in February 2024.

Towards the end of 2023, Grace recorded six songs with Matt Patton, Mikey Erg, and her wife Paris Campbell Grace. These songs were released as the EP Give an Inch by "Laura Jane Grace & The Mississippi Medicals".

In 2015, Grace wrote a column called "Mandatory Happiness" for the Vice Media publication Noisey.{{cite news|title=Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace Will Now Take Your Questions|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/against-mes-laura-jane-grace-will-now-take-your-questions/|work=Noisey|publisher=Vice Media|date=January 23, 2015|language=en-us|access-date=August 3, 2018|archive-date=August 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803074426/https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/6x8897/against-mes-laura-jane-grace-will-now-take-your-questions|url-status=live}}

On November 15, 2016, Grace's memoir Tranny: Confessions Of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout, co-written with Noisey editor Dan Ozzi, was published.{{cite news|last1=Noah|first1=Trevor|last2=Grace|first2=Laura Jane|title=Laura Jane Grace - Discovering Gender Identity in "Tranny" (Video Clip)|url=http://www.cc.com/video-clips/t086zj/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-laura-jane-grace---discovering-gender-identity-in--tranny-|work=The Daily Show with Trevor Noah|publisher=Comedy Central|date=2 February 2017|format=Video interview|access-date=3 August 2018|archive-date=3 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803104114/http://www.cc.com/video-clips/t086zj/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-laura-jane-grace---discovering-gender-identity-in--tranny-|url-status=dead}} Much of the book is based on Grace's journals, which she had kept since third grade.{{Cite news|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/laura-jane-graces-new-tranny-memoir-10-things-we-learned-w449686|title=Laura Jane Grace's Brutally Honest 'Tranny' Memoir: 10 Things We Learned|newspaper=Rolling Stone|access-date=2016-11-17|archive-date=2016-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117010155/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/laura-jane-graces-new-tranny-memoir-10-things-we-learned-w449686|url-status=live}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/against-me-s-laura-jane-grace-announces-memoir-20160321|title=Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace Announces Memoir|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=21 March 2016|access-date=2016-03-22|archive-date=2016-04-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408022243/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/against-me-s-laura-jane-grace-announces-memoir-20160321|url-status=live}} The book was known under a working title of Kill Me Loudly or Killing Me Loudly in 2015, when Grace was working with a different publisher.{{cite web|url=http://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/kill-me-loudly-a-memoir-of-gender-dysphoria-music-and-addiction/9780804140461|title=Books, stationery, gifts and much more|author=BT Fresca Limited|work=WHSmith|access-date=July 13, 2015|archive-date=July 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707145732/http://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/kill-me-loudly-a-memoir-of-gender-dysphoria-music-and-addiction/9780804140461|url-status=live}}{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7263980/against-me-laura-jane-grace-memoir-book-autobiography-2016|title=Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace to Release Memoir 'Tranny' Later This Year|magazine=Billboard|access-date=2016-03-22|archive-date=2016-03-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321234013/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7263980/against-me-laura-jane-grace-memoir-book-autobiography-2016|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.goingofftrack.com/2016/11/16/laura-jane-grace-live/|title=Laura Jane Grace (LIVE)|date=November 16, 2016|website=Going Off Track|access-date=November 16, 2016|archive-date=November 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117210910/http://www.goingofftrack.com/2016/11/16/laura-jane-grace-live/|url-status=live}}

Grace participated in a 10-part documentary called True Trans where she interviewed "gender variant people from all walks of life" to allow them to tell their stories, in addition to telling hers.{{Cite web|url=http://on.aol.com/shows/true-trans-shw518250660|title=Finding Trans|website=aol.on|access-date=2016-04-21|archive-date=2016-04-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427092948/http://on.aol.com/shows/true-trans-shw518250660|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://on.aol.com/shows/true-trans-shw518250660|title=Finding Trans|website=aol.on|access-date=2016-05-12|archive-date=2016-05-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508163232/http://on.aol.com/shows/true-trans-shw518250660|url-status=live}} In 2015, the show was nominated for an Emmy for New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle, Culture.{{cite news|last1=Paulson|first1=Margaret|title=Laura Jane Grace's 'True Trans' Series Nominated For Emmy|url=http://chicagoist.com/2015/07/24/emmy_nomination_laura_jane_grace.php|work=Chicagoist|date=24 July 2015|access-date=1 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171104173011/http://chicagoist.com/2015/07/24/emmy_nomination_laura_jane_grace.php|archive-date=4 November 2017|url-status=dead}}

Grace was married in 2000. The marriage ended in divorce four years later in 2004.{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_r_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=Thomas%20James&gsfn_x=0&gsln=Gabel&gsln_x=0&msypn__ftp=Florida,%20USA&msypn=12&msypn_PInfo=5-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C0%7C12%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C&MSAV=0&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=000|title=Thomas James Gabel|publisher=ancestry.com|access-date=2016-10-14|archive-date=2016-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018215231/http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_r_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=Thomas%20James&gsfn_x=0&gsln=Gabel&gsln_x=0&msypn__ftp=Florida,%20USA&msypn=12&msypn_PInfo=5-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C0%7C12%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C&MSAV=0&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=000|url-status=live}}

In March 2006, while touring as an opening act for Alkaline Trio, Grace met visual artist Heather Hannoura, who designed merchandise for Alkaline Trio and other bands.{{cite web |title=Tours: Alkaline Trio and Against Me! Tour Dates |publisher=Punknews.org |date=January 23, 2006 |url=http://www.punknews.org/article/15365 |access-date=May 16, 2012 |archive-date=April 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210404235527/https://www.punknews.org/article/15365/tours-alkaline-trio-and-against-me-tour-dates |url-status=live }} The two spent the summer together on the Warped Tour, began living together, and got tattoos of each other's names. They married in December 2007, after a year-long engagement.

Grace and Hannoura have a daughter, Evelyn, born in 2009. Grace's feelings of dysphoria "started coming back really strong" about the time Hannoura became pregnant that February, but were not acted on. The family moved to St. Augustine, Florida, in 2010, when Evelyn was about a year old. The couple separated and then divorced in 2013.{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/3653490/laura-jane-grace-against-me-interview/|title=Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! on Transitioning, New Music, Book|author=Nolan Feeney|magazine=Time|access-date=July 13, 2015|date=January 7, 2015|archive-date=July 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707073930/http://time.com/3653490/laura-jane-grace-against-me-interview/|url-status=live}}

Grace married comedian and content creator Paris Campbell in December 2023, after having met the month before.{{cite web | url=https://idobi.com/high-life/laura-jane-grace-married-wedding-paris-campbell/ | title=Laura Jane Grace Marries Comedian Paris Campbell in Las Vegas }}

In 2006, Grace became a vegan.

Grace has lived in Chicago since 2013.{{cite news|last1=Svachula|first1=Amanda|title=Rocker Laura Jane Grace samples Chicago neighborhoods, picks favorite|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/rocker-laura-jane-grace-samples-chicago-neighborhoods-picks-favorite/|work=Chicago Sun-Times|date=August 28, 2017|language=en|access-date=August 3, 2018|archive-date=August 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803074630/https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/rocker-laura-jane-grace-samples-chicago-neighborhoods-picks-favorite/|url-status=live}} She released a song "I Hate Chicago" in 2018 that criticised many aspects of the city.{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ott-laura-jane-grace-interview-1102-story.html|title=The story behind Laura Jane Grace's 'I Hate Chicago' song|last=Kot|first=Greg|date=1 November 2018|access-date=30 November 2018|archive-date=30 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130113042/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ott-laura-jane-grace-interview-1102-story.html|url-status=live}}

Grace has said that she is an anarchist. After leaving Naples, Italy, and moving to Naples, Florida, Grace said that she discovered punk rock music around the age of 13. Around the age of 15 or 16 years old, Grace said that she also discovered the anarcho-punk and activist punk rock movements, which she found appealing for its feminist and anti-hate stance against racism, homophobia, and its embrace of body liberation. Grace said she has been influenced by these concepts as core values since learning about them. A band that Grace cites frequently as an example of politics and music is Crass, an English art collective and punk rock band formed in 1977. However, as Against Me! became more successful, the constraints of the punk rock scene, which often had rigid sets of rules, were difficult to embrace, especially during the times when Grace was struggling with gender dysphoria.{{cite news|last1=Farber|first1=Jim|title=Laura Jane Grace: 'Punk was more closed-minded than the church'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/10/laura-jane-grace-against-me-tranny-memoir|work=The Guardian|date=10 November 2016|language=en|access-date=3 August 2018|archive-date=3 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803194523/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/10/laura-jane-grace-against-me-tranny-memoir|url-status=live}}

The Against Me! song "Stop!" was part of the Rock the Vote campaign to encourage voting in the 2008 US presidential election.{{cite web|url=https://www.rockthevote.org/against-me-rocks-the-vote-041508/|access-date=29 November 2020|publisher=Rock the Vote|title=Against Me! Rocks the Vote|date=14 April 2008|archive-date=4 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210404235527/https://www.rockthevote.org/against-me-rocks-the-vote-041508/|url-status=live}}

At a May 2016 Against Me! show in Durham, North Carolina, Grace set her birth certificate on fire in protest of the North Carolina bathroom bill. Grace said "Goodbye gender" during this act of protest.{{cite news|last1=Monroe|first1=Jazz|title=Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace Burns Birth Certificate at North Carolina Show|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/65501-against-mes-laura-jane-grace-burns-birth-certificate-at-north-carolina-show/|work=Pitchfork|date=16 May 2016|language=en|access-date=3 August 2018|archive-date=3 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803194707/https://pitchfork.com/news/65501-against-mes-laura-jane-grace-burns-birth-certificate-at-north-carolina-show/|url-status=live}}

In 2020, Grace played at a fundraiser for Bernie Sanders's campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.{{cite web|url=https://www.kerrang.com/features/laura-jane-grace-youve-gotta-live-with-bad-choices-youve-gotta-live-with-broken-relationships-its-all-a-part-of-you/|publisher=Kerrang|access-date=29 November 2020|last=Brannigan|first=Paul|title=LAURA JANE GRACE: "YOU'VE GOTTA LIVE WITH BAD CHOICES, YOU'VE GOTTA LIVE WITH BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS, IT'S ALL A PART OF YOU"|date=2 October 2020|archive-date=6 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006203956/https://www.kerrang.com/features/laura-jane-grace-youve-gotta-live-with-bad-choices-youve-gotta-live-with-broken-relationships-its-all-a-part-of-you/|url-status=live}}

{{Quote box |quote=The cliché is that you're a woman trapped in a man's body, but it's not that simple. It's a feeling of detachment from your body and from yourself. And it's shitty, man. It's really fucking shitty. |source=—Grace, describing gender dysphoria in 2012 |align=right |salign=right |width=25%}}

{{Quote box |quote= I would describe it as a feeling of misalignment. Where the gender you feel (internally) doesn't match up with your assigned gender at birth. When you're too young to know what it is, it turns into shame.{{Cite web|url=http://on.aol.com/video/true-trans-s1-e2---gender-dysphoria-518450999|title=Gender Dysphoria|website=aol.on|access-date=2016-09-21|archive-date=2016-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923030421/http://on.aol.com/video/true-trans-s1-e2---gender-dysphoria-518450999|url-status=live}}|source=—Grace, describing gender dysphoria in 2014 |align=right |salign=right |width=25%}}

Grace experienced feelings of gender dysphoria from a young age, citing them as her "earliest memories".{{Cite web|url=http://www.phawker.com/2014/09/11/about-a-girl-the-complete-magnet-magazine-qa-with-against-mes-laura-jane-grace/|title=ABOUT A GIRL: The Complete Magnet Magazine Q&A With Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace|date=2014-09-11|website=PHAWKER.COM - Curated News, Gossip, Concert Reviews, Fearless Political Commentary, Interviews....Plus, the Usual Sex, Drugs and Rock n' Roll|access-date=2016-04-27|archive-date=2016-05-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531042858/http://www.phawker.com/2014/09/11/about-a-girl-the-complete-magnet-magazine-qa-with-against-mes-laura-jane-grace/|url-status=live}} Grace publicly came out as a transgender woman in May 2012 in an article to Rolling Stone.{{Cite magazine |date=2012-05-31 |title=Secret Life of Transgender Rocker Tom Gabel |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-secret-life-of-transgender-rocker-laura-jane-grace-tom-gabel-99788/ |access-date=2022-06-01 |magazine=Rolling Stone}} Grace announced plans to begin transitioning. Having been inspired to come out after meeting a transgender Against Me! fan, Grace had informed the rest of the band that February.{{cite magazine |title=Tom Gabel of Against Me! Comes Out as Transgender |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=May 8, 2012 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-gabel-of-against-me-comes-out-as-transgender-20120508 |access-date=May 8, 2012 |archive-date=May 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509211255/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-gabel-of-against-me-comes-out-as-transgender-20120508 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Montgomery |first=James |title=Tom Gabel Reveals Details of Transgender Life in Rolling Stone |publisher=MTV |work=mtv.com |date=May 10, 2012 |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1684887/tom-gabel-against-me-transgender-rolling-stone.jhtml |access-date=May 10, 2012 |archive-date=May 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512214608/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1684887/tom-gabel-against-me-transgender-rolling-stone.jhtml |url-status=dead }} In 2012, she began publicly using the name Laura Jane Grace.{{cite web|last=Montgomery|first=James|date=December 20, 2012|title=Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace Gives Revealing Life at New Life, New Closet|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1699239/against-me-laura-jane-grace-house-of-style.jhtml|access-date=December 20, 2012|work=mtv.com|publisher=MTV|archive-date=December 24, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121224234115/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1699239/against-me-laura-jane-grace-house-of-style.jhtml|url-status=dead}} "Laura" is the name her mother would have chosen had she been assigned female at birth, "Jane" was selected simply because she thinks it's pretty, and "Grace" is her mother's maiden name.{{cite web|title=Laura Jane Grace, Transgender Punk, On Life In Transition|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/01/19/263503567/laura-jane-grace-transgendered-punk-on-life-in-transition|publisher=NPR|date=January 19, 2014|access-date=April 3, 2018|archive-date=August 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802102140/https://www.npr.org/2014/01/19/263503567/laura-jane-grace-transgendered-punk-on-life-in-transition|url-status=live}} On continuing to perform in Against Me!, Grace said, "However fierce our band was in the past, imagine me, six-foot-two, in heels, fucking screaming into someone's face."

In her 2012 interview with Rolling Stone, Grace revealed plans to take hormones and undergo electrolysis. She said she was also considering surgery. She expressed apprehension about chondrolaryngoplasty and bottom surgery, saying, "I don't give a fuck if I lose my penis. It's just fucking scary because of the surgery. I've needed to have my wisdom teeth removed for five years, and I still haven't." She said that she would live as a woman and undergo psychotherapy for a year before considering gender-affirming surgery: "Right now, I'm in this awkward transition period. I look like a dude, and feel like a dude, and it sucks. But eventually I'll flip, and I'll present as female." In 2015, Grace stated, "I think it's perfectly valid [for a trans person] to never undergo bottom surgery".{{Cite web|url=http://www.pandamian.org/2015_04_01_archive.html?m=1|title=pandamian|website=www.pandamian.org|access-date=2016-09-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510223401/http://www.pandamian.org/2015_04_01_archive.html?m=1|archive-date=2017-05-10|url-status=dead}}

In response to Grace's announcement, a number of figures in the punk community voiced their support, including musicians Brian Fallon, Brendan Kelly, Franz Nicolay, and Mike Shinoda; cartoonist Mitch Clem; and professional wrestler CM Punk.{{cite web |last=Wisniewski |first=Kira |title=Punk community Reactions to Laura Jane Grace News |publisher=Punknews.org |date=May 10, 2012 |url=http://www.punknews.org/article/47292 |access-date=May 10, 2012 |archive-date=May 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512213126/http://www.punknews.org/article/47292 |url-status=live }} Herndon Graddick, President of GLAAD, hoped that Grace's public profile would increase public awareness and acceptance of trans people: "[Laura] is displaying extraordinary courage by coming out as transgender after already establishing herself as a rock star. For many of the band's fans, this may be the first time they're actually thinking about transgender people and the bravery it sometimes takes in order to be true to yourself."{{cite web |last=Kane |first=Matt |title=Lead Singer of Punk Band 'Against Me!' Comes Out as Transgender in Rolling Stone |publisher=GLAAD |date=May 8, 2012 |url=http://www.glaad.org/blog/lead-singer-punk-band-against-me-comes-out-transgender-rolling-stone |access-date=May 10, 2012 |archive-date=May 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512084737/http://www.glaad.org/blog/lead-singer-punk-band-against-me-comes-out-transgender-rolling-stone |url-status=live }}

Grace confirmed in January 2019 that she underwent facial feminization surgery in December 2018 as part of her transition.{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BsJOlOuH6-8/|title=Laura Jane Grace on Instagram: "A month ago I had FFS. Now I have a mesh screen of titanium permanently screwed into my forehead. Being trans is a trip y'all, a wild, wild…"|website=Instagram|access-date=January 4, 2019|archive-date=April 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210404235703/https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/|url-status=live}}

{{Main|Against Me! discography}}

• Against Me! Is Reinventing Axl Rose (2002)
• Against Me! as the Eternal Cowboy (2003)
• Searching for a Former Clarity (2005)
• New Wave (2007)
• White Crosses (2010)
• Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014)
• Shape Shift with Me (2016)

• 2014: True Trans with Laura Jane Grace (TV Series documentary) on AOL Studios – 10 episodes

• 2014: The Advocate, 40 under 40{{cite news|title=Laura Jane Grace Doesn't Apologize for Being Herself|url=http://www.advocate.com/40-under-40-emerging-voices/2014/08/20/40-under-40-laura-jane-grace-doesnt-apologize-being-herself|work=The Advocate|date=August 20, 2014|access-date=August 20, 2014|archive-date=August 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821062147/http://www.advocate.com/40-under-40-emerging-voices/2014/08/20/40-under-40-laura-jane-grace-doesnt-apologize-being-herself|url-status=live}}
• 2014: OUT, OUT 100
• 2015: Emmy Award, News & Documentary Emmy Award, New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle, Culture (nominee) for True Trans
• 2017: Alternative Press Music Awards, Icon Award{{cite magazine|last1=Feeney|first1=Nolan|title=Laura Jane Grace to Receive Icon Award at AP Music Awards: 'It's Really Surreal'|url=http://ew.com/music/2017/06/20/laura-jane-grace-icon-award-interview/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=20 June 2017|language=en|access-date=3 August 2018|archive-date=3 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803074433/http://ew.com/music/2017/06/20/laura-jane-grace-icon-award-interview/|url-status=live}}

• {{cite news|last1=Grace|first1=Laura Jane|title=Laura Jane Grace on How to Be a Parent When You're Transitioning Genders|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/laura-jane-grace-on-how-to-be-a-parent-when-youre-transitioning-genders/|work=Noisey|publisher=Vice Media|date=19 February 2015|language=en-uk}}
• {{cite news|last1=Grace|first1=Laura Jane|title=Tattooing Away the Pain by Laura Jane Grace|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/laura-jane-grace-tattoos-and-depression/|work=Noisey|publisher=Vice Media|date=6 March 2015|language=en-uk}}
• {{cite news|last1=Grace|first1=Laura Jane|title=Laura Jane Grace on the Problem with Pronouns|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/laura-jane-grace-on-the-problem-with-pronouns/|work=Noisey|publisher=Vice Media|date=30 March 2015|language=en-uk}}
• {{cite news|last1=Grace|first1=Laura Jane|title=Laura Jane Grace Talks with Fan About Transphobic Assault in the Punk Community|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/laura-jane-grace-transphobic-violence-in-the-punk-community/|work=Noisey|publisher=Vice Media|date=12 June 2015|language=en-uk}}
• {{cite news|last1=Grace|first1=Laura Jane|title=About That Title: Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace explains why she decided to title her memoir 'TRANNY.'|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/mandatory-happiness-about-that-title/|work=Noisey|publisher=Vice Media|date=28 March 2016|language=en-uk}}

• {{cite book|last1=Grace|first1=Laura Jane|last2=Ozzi|first2=Dan|title=Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout|date=2016|publisher=Hachette Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-316-26438-9|language=en|oclc=962854902}}

{{Reflist|30em}}

• {{cite news|last1=Maron|first1=Marc|last2=Grace|first2=Laura Jane|title=Episode 617: Laura Jane Grace|url=http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_617_-_laura_jane_grace|work=WTF with Marc Maron|date=6 July 2015|format=Audio interview}}
• {{cite news|last1=Noah|first1=Trevor|last2=Grace|first2=Laura Jane|title=Laura Jane Grace - Discovering Gender Identity in "Tranny" (Video Clip)|url=http://www.cc.com/video-clips/t086zj/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-laura-jane-grace---discovering-gender-identity-in--tranny-|work=The Daily Show with Trevor Noah|publisher=Comedy Central|date=2 February 2017|format=Video interview|access-date=3 August 2018|archive-date=12 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212194738/http://www.cc.com/video-clips/t086zj/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-laura-jane-grace---discovering-gender-identity-in--tranny-|url-status=dead}}
• {{cite news|last1=Power|first1=Tom|last2=Grace|first2=Laura Jane|title=Laura Jane Grace saw herself in Madonna|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFyFcZW3dUc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/SFyFcZW3dUc |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|work=Q|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|date=4 April 2017|format=Video interview}}{{cbignore}}

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• [http://www.againstme.net Against Me!'s site]
• [https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/artist/laura-jane-grace-devouring-mothers Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801094149/https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/artist/laura-jane-grace-devouring-mothers |date=2018-08-01 }} at Bloodshot Records
• {{IMDb name|nm1893485|Laura Jane Grace}}

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