RIP Leslie Feinberg, I was SUPER sad to read this today. Stone Butch Blues is one of the most moving

RIP Leslie Feinberg, I was SUPER sad to read this today. Stone Butch Blues is one of the most moving and touching books I’ve ever read. The world lost a hero today who never stopped fighting.Transgender Pioneer and Stone Butch Blues Author Leslie Feinberg Has DiedShe was a pioneer in trans and lesbian issues, workers rights, and intersectionality long before anyone could define the phrase.“Her historical and theoretical writing has been widely anthologized and taught in the U.S. and international academic circles. Her impact on mass culture was primarily through her 1993 first novel, Stone Butch Blues, widely considered in and outside the U.S. as a groundbreaking work about the complexities of gender. Sold by the hundreds of thousands of copies and also passed from hand-to-hand inside prisons, the novel has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian, Slovenian, Turkish, and Hebrew (with her earnings from that edition going to ASWAT Palestinian Gay Women).In a statement at the end of her life, she said she had “never been in search of a common umbrella identity, or even an umbrella term, that brings together people of oppressed sexes, gender expressions, and sexualities” and added that she believed in the right of self-determination of oppressed individuals, communities, groups, and nations.She preferred to use the pronouns she/zie and her/hir for herself, but also said: “I care which pronoun is used, but people have been disrespectful to me with the wrong pronoun and respectful with the right one. It matters whether someone is using the pronoun as a bigot, or if they are trying to demonstrate respect.”From Advocate.com. Read her obituary from her partner of 22 years Minnie Bruce Pratt here.READ ME  >> Stone Butch Blues | Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink and Blue | Transgender Warriors Leslie Feinberg Official Website | On Wikipedia -- source link

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