“Stone Butch Blues” remains a classic still today. It captured, in real terms, the realities of people pushed to the edge of society, forced to go underground just to live: transgender people, gay people, lesbians, queer people, street people-all forced to deal with all the complexities of gender and sexual issues in a violent, homophobic and transphobic world. Selling in the hundreds of thousands, the ground-breaking work has been translated into many languages.
Hir acts of solidarity in support of oppressed people around the world, for Palestine, Cuba, political prisoners such as Mumia Abu-Jamal, Native Americans-plus so many more-have provided a basis for increased working-class solidarity throughout the progressive movement.įeinberg’s first novel, “Stone Butch Blues,” published in 1993, struck a chord with hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ people and others dealing with a hostile and often violent society, a society with zero tolerance for anyone stepping out of bounds regarding sexual orientation or gender identity. Hir writings and activism have contributed immeasurably to the growth of the transgender movement. The impact of hir theoretical development of transgender liberation as a Marxist concept has affected and guided the transgender movement, the LGBTQ movement, academic circles all around the world, and the broader movement for justice. Hir writings on the super-oppression of transgender people came at a time when voices of solidarity and support for transgender people were few and far between.
Throughout hir life, she identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist.” Hir biography, posted on hir website “Transgender Warrior,” describes hir roots as “coming of age as a young butch lesbian in the factories and gay bars of Buffalo, N.Y. Hir last words, Pratt writes in an eloquent tribute and eulogy in the Advocate Magazine, were these: “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.”īorn in Kansas City, Mo., Feinberg grew up in Buffalo, N.Y. Hir life-partner of 22 years, Minnie Bruce Pratt, was at hir side in their home in Syracuse, N.Y.
Leslie Feinberg, pioneer transgender revolutionary, author and activist, has died at the age of 65. Editor’s Note: Because Leslie Feinberg preferred the pronouns “she/zie” and “her/hir” we are using those pronouns in this article.
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