Leslie Feinberg Was A Real Person Who Existed And I’m Posting About Hir Again Because I Deleted The

Leslie feinberg was a real person who existed and i’m posting about hir again because i deleted the last post i made on hir.

The first photo is Leslie Feinberg from some time in the 70’s, the second is her with her wife Minnie Bruce Pratt.

Feinberg identified both as a lesbian, and as transgender. he was a queer and workers rights activist and a Palestinian liberation activist. He fought for the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who received the death penalty after an unfair trial regarding the shooting of a police officer. He believed that all communities, met with oppression, from the government, and on the social level, should come together for the sake of all of us being liberated.

Ze went by multiple sets of pronouns based on context, going by he/him, to honour his transgender identity, referring to zemself with ze/hir pronouns personally, and going by she/her to signify gender incongruence with her masculine appearance in certain spaces.

Ze wrote two novels about the queer experience, drag king dreams in 2006, and stone butch blues in 1993, which is considered a seminal text in the history of trans and lesbian writing.

Feinberg passed away in twenty-fourteen, hir last words were “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.”

Don’t forget about transmasc lesbians, they’ve been around for longer than you’d think. Their history shouldn’t be erased.

Here are the links to two interviews with Feinberg, hir website, a link to a website ze made to give free access to the 20th anniversary edition of stone butch blues, and a talk ze gave on Mumia Abu-Jamal:

(I might also make a follow up post on Andrea Dworkin, since a lot of her ideas regarding Androgyny get ignored. she as a lone activist was kind of like, a swansong to the power of being really fucking mad about misogyny, which is inspiring, but i think she gets pigeon holed a lot as just a feminist, and is left out of discussions on queerness, which was also relevant to her life and work. That’s not to say feminism doesn’t matter, but that it wasn’t all she wrote about.)