Leslie Feinberg



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Leslie Feinberg

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September 01, 1949 in The United States

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Leslie Feinberg is a transgender activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg is a high ranking member of the Workers World Party and a managing editor of Workers World newspaper.

Feinberg's writings on LGBT history, "Lavender & Red," frequently appear in the Workers World newspaper. Feinberg's partner is the prominent lesbian poet-activist Minnie Bruce Pratt. Feinberg has also been involved in Camp Trans and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Starr King School for the Ministry for transgender and social justice work.

Feinberg's novel Stone Butch Blues, which won the Stonewall Book Award, is a novel based around Jess Goldberg, a transgendered individual growing up in an unaccepting setting. Despite popular belief, the fictional work i...more


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Average rating: 4.11 · 6,565 ratings · 558 reviews · 7 distinct works
Stone Butch Blues
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 5,031 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions
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Transgender Warriors : Maki...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 620 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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Trans Liberation: Beyond Pi...
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 518 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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Drag King Dreams
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 389 ratings — published 2006
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Transgender Liberation: A M...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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Rainbow Solidarity in Defen...
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2004
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“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
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“More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?”
― Leslie Feinberg
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“If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues
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