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Drag King Dreams
From award-winning and best-selling author, Leslie Feinberg, comes Drag King Dreams, the story of Max Rabinowitz, a butch lesbian bartender at an East Village club where drag kings, dykes dressed as men, perform.
A veteran of the women's and gay movement of the past 30 years, Max's mid-life crisis hits in the midst of the post-9/11 world. Max is lonely and uncertain about her future — fearful, in fact, of America's future with its War on Terror and War in Iraq — with only a core group of friends to turn to for reassurance. Max is shaken from her crisis, however, by the news that her friend Vickie, a transvestite, has been found murdered on her way home late one night. As the community of cross-dressers, drag queens, lesbian and gay men, and "genderqueers" of all kinds stand up together in the face of this tragedy, Max taps into the activist spirit she thought had long disappeared and for the first time in years discovers hope for her future.
A veteran of the women's and gay movement of the past 30 years, Max's mid-life crisis hits in the midst of the post-9/11 world. Max is lonely and uncertain about her future — fearful, in fact, of America's future with its War on Terror and War in Iraq — with only a core group of friends to turn to for reassurance. Max is shaken from her crisis, however, by the news that her friend Vickie, a transvestite, has been found murdered on her way home late one night. As the community of cross-dressers, drag queens, lesbian and gay men, and "genderqueers" of all kinds stand up together in the face of this tragedy, Max taps into the activist spirit she thought had long disappeared and for the first time in years discovers hope for her future.
314 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2006
About the author
Leslie Feinberg
13 books1,089 followersLeslie Feinberg was a transgender activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg was 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 appeared in the Workers World newspaper. Feinberg's partner was the prominent lesbian poet-activist Minnie Bruce Pratt. Feinberg was also involved in Camp Trans and was 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 is not autobiographical. This book is frequently taught at colleges and universities and is widely considered a groundbreaking work about gender.
Leslie Feinberg was Jewish, and was born female. Feinberg preferred the gender-neutral pronouns "hir" and "ze". Feinberg wrote: "I have shaped myself surgically and hormonally twice in my life, and I reserve the right to do it again."
Feinberg's writings on LGBT history, "Lavender & Red," frequently appeared in the Workers World newspaper. Feinberg's partner was the prominent lesbian poet-activist Minnie Bruce Pratt. Feinberg was also involved in Camp Trans and was 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 is not autobiographical. This book is frequently taught at colleges and universities and is widely considered a groundbreaking work about gender.
Leslie Feinberg was Jewish, and was born female. Feinberg preferred the gender-neutral pronouns "hir" and "ze". Feinberg wrote: "I have shaped myself surgically and hormonally twice in my life, and I reserve the right to do it again."
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March 24, 2020
I read a lot of reviews of this book before finishing it. A lot of them were negative, and I want to respond to those even if no one reads it.
"The writing is too simplistic." The writing is simple, but is simple bad? Of course not. Leslie Feinberg, tapping into the mind and experience of a working class person who is not immersed in academia, creates a well-written, accessible text. Not everything has to be Butler or Foucault-esque in writing style. Especially when it comes to a groundbreaking work such as this text, a fictional text that celebrates so many different types of people.
"It's like ze just tried to check off everything on a diversity checklist." There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting a book to be accessible to and representative of, everyone, especially its most oppressed readers. My god, there is a deaf, genderqueer drag performer in this book who isn't the butt of a joke but in fact, is celebrated and affirmed!! How can that be chalked up to "checking things off on a diversity checklist"? There are absolutely people out there who can relate to that character. There are Jewish transgender people and butch women who can relate to Max, the main character. There are Black trans women who can relate to Ruby. This isn't some "diversity checklist", it's a bold statement affirming characters who have only recently come to be represented in literature.
"It's so annoying when older people write about the internet with so much fascination." This is just goofy. Leslie Feinberg was born in 1949, so ze was an adult already in the late 1960s, when gay bars,.often underground, were the ONLY ways to meet and celebrate ourselves. Maybe some DL house parties here and there, but back then computers were not personal and something like social media was just a dream for those who could even conceptualize such a thing. It is absolutely not farfetched for an older queer/trans person to write with so much fascination and romance of the internet or the personal computer. I loved it. Fuck, i don't even play video games but i want to play AvaStar [with some tweaks, of course]!!
Dreams is Leslie Feinberg's 2nd and final book of fiction -- it is captivating; i read it in just a few days. In the book, Leslie intricately brings together current [even reading this 14 years later, i'd still call it current] material conditions of oppression, but at the same time, imagines a response that is street organizers giving unconditional solidarity to one another. What really captivates me about this book is how open, communicative, and supportive everyone is of their comrades in this book. It is possible, of course, but to see the mutual aid and solidarity here played out so effortlessly is inspiring. The way the main characters keep watch on Ruby during her hospital stay,.how they all collectively push back against their shitty boss. Its amazing.
This book, as mentioned above, has an element of technology to it that makes it even more enjoyable. Leslie addresses not only the issue of transphobia in real life,.but in digital life! Honestly, who was writing about video game characters and transphobia 15 years ago? Hell, people are still writing about it now. I loved that aspect. While reading about this fictional game called AvaStar, i honestly felt like i could see it being played in real time. Like perhaps i was sitting at my desk in new york city at 3 a.m., playing this game. I loved it.
Two major themes that are seen again and again here are aging and burnout. I was a good number of pages in before i realized Max is older, over 50 years old, and so is Ruby -- which makes me happy because that's another angle Leslie quietly added: older queer/trans people who,.despite the odds, have survived, who are just as revolutionary as us younger fags. Max's burnout is a recurring issue throughout the book; his passion for the struggle is reignited, and how fitting! I cant speak to how those who survived the Stonewall days and the AIDS epidemic, must've felt circa 2005, but i imagine burnt out was probably a general feeling. What a wonderful call to action Leslie brings in this book to our queer/trans elders: you're never too old for the struggle.
Finally, something i really loved here is the very realistic lack of resolution -- the book ends in, to me, a very suspenseful scene that offers no solace, in the same way the book begins -- there is a brutal murder that remains unsolved. People are kidnapped, disappeared, attacked, and killed. And there are no resolutions. There is very little justice -- this is not, ultimately, a "feel good book" -- it is a testament and reflection of the times; there is no justice, no solace. Everything colonized and/or oppressed persons have won has been through arduous struggle -- and of course, a luta continua! The struggle continues. There is no happy ending here because we have not gotten to one in the struggle. This book reflects that.
I can't recommend this book enough. It is as good as Stone Butch Blues.
"The writing is too simplistic." The writing is simple, but is simple bad? Of course not. Leslie Feinberg, tapping into the mind and experience of a working class person who is not immersed in academia, creates a well-written, accessible text. Not everything has to be Butler or Foucault-esque in writing style. Especially when it comes to a groundbreaking work such as this text, a fictional text that celebrates so many different types of people.
"It's like ze just tried to check off everything on a diversity checklist." There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting a book to be accessible to and representative of, everyone, especially its most oppressed readers. My god, there is a deaf, genderqueer drag performer in this book who isn't the butt of a joke but in fact, is celebrated and affirmed!! How can that be chalked up to "checking things off on a diversity checklist"? There are absolutely people out there who can relate to that character. There are Jewish transgender people and butch women who can relate to Max, the main character. There are Black trans women who can relate to Ruby. This isn't some "diversity checklist", it's a bold statement affirming characters who have only recently come to be represented in literature.
"It's so annoying when older people write about the internet with so much fascination." This is just goofy. Leslie Feinberg was born in 1949, so ze was an adult already in the late 1960s, when gay bars,.often underground, were the ONLY ways to meet and celebrate ourselves. Maybe some DL house parties here and there, but back then computers were not personal and something like social media was just a dream for those who could even conceptualize such a thing. It is absolutely not farfetched for an older queer/trans person to write with so much fascination and romance of the internet or the personal computer. I loved it. Fuck, i don't even play video games but i want to play AvaStar [with some tweaks, of course]!!
Dreams is Leslie Feinberg's 2nd and final book of fiction -- it is captivating; i read it in just a few days. In the book, Leslie intricately brings together current [even reading this 14 years later, i'd still call it current] material conditions of oppression, but at the same time, imagines a response that is street organizers giving unconditional solidarity to one another. What really captivates me about this book is how open, communicative, and supportive everyone is of their comrades in this book. It is possible, of course, but to see the mutual aid and solidarity here played out so effortlessly is inspiring. The way the main characters keep watch on Ruby during her hospital stay,.how they all collectively push back against their shitty boss. Its amazing.
This book, as mentioned above, has an element of technology to it that makes it even more enjoyable. Leslie addresses not only the issue of transphobia in real life,.but in digital life! Honestly, who was writing about video game characters and transphobia 15 years ago? Hell, people are still writing about it now. I loved that aspect. While reading about this fictional game called AvaStar, i honestly felt like i could see it being played in real time. Like perhaps i was sitting at my desk in new york city at 3 a.m., playing this game. I loved it.
Two major themes that are seen again and again here are aging and burnout. I was a good number of pages in before i realized Max is older, over 50 years old, and so is Ruby -- which makes me happy because that's another angle Leslie quietly added: older queer/trans people who,.despite the odds, have survived, who are just as revolutionary as us younger fags. Max's burnout is a recurring issue throughout the book; his passion for the struggle is reignited, and how fitting! I cant speak to how those who survived the Stonewall days and the AIDS epidemic, must've felt circa 2005, but i imagine burnt out was probably a general feeling. What a wonderful call to action Leslie brings in this book to our queer/trans elders: you're never too old for the struggle.
Finally, something i really loved here is the very realistic lack of resolution -- the book ends in, to me, a very suspenseful scene that offers no solace, in the same way the book begins -- there is a brutal murder that remains unsolved. People are kidnapped, disappeared, attacked, and killed. And there are no resolutions. There is very little justice -- this is not, ultimately, a "feel good book" -- it is a testament and reflection of the times; there is no justice, no solace. Everything colonized and/or oppressed persons have won has been through arduous struggle -- and of course, a luta continua! The struggle continues. There is no happy ending here because we have not gotten to one in the struggle. This book reflects that.
I can't recommend this book enough. It is as good as Stone Butch Blues.
April 24, 2023
Not a work of fine literature, nor an emblem the way SBB was. But this is a five-star story for me, sitting on this long train journey from my girlfriend’s place to mine. Filled with the complexity of early-digital queer politics, struggles with Jewish identity, and the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic meeting with the upswing of the war on terror, Feinberg captures the ambivalence and unexpected sites of hope and love amidst a desolate and confusing period.
April 14, 2021
I really wish I could give this a better review! The writing was stale and heavy-handed, and the characters felt more like vessels for a political message than fleshed out people. The book was so self-conscious about its whiteness and that really detracted from the narrative.
April 20, 2007
This little feller made me throw up all over the place, over and over and over. I think I hate Feinberg as a fiction writer. Which is fine- ze still does lots of really good work as a historian, organizer and union activist- I just feel like the characters were kind of flat, the idea that different oppressions are connected was SO overstated, video game narratives make me explode, instant messenger conversation transcriptions make me want to die, and you do NOT ask a transwoman what her "real name" is. If she's told you her name, she's told you her real name.
Also: all femmes and all transwomen are not sweetheart caretakers. (My roommate pointed out that this is what goes on in Feinberg's books, I didn't put it together on my own. Gross.)
I got pretty invested in being mad at this book, though, so I might be typing through ANGRY GLASSES.
Also: all femmes and all transwomen are not sweetheart caretakers. (My roommate pointed out that this is what goes on in Feinberg's books, I didn't put it together on my own. Gross.)
I got pretty invested in being mad at this book, though, so I might be typing through ANGRY GLASSES.
April 13, 2021
4.5/5 stars. This is such an incredible and important story. There were parts of the characters I'd like to have seen more fleshed out, but ultimately I think it all worked. But the themes, the point of this book was incredible. I would end up writing an essay if I started going into it all. But if you are interested in activism in any way, you need to read Leslie Feinberg. This embodies a lot of what ze said in some of their nonfiction about solidarity -- within the LGBT movement and outside of it. It discusses nuances of identity and nuances of connection. So many excellent things happening.
CW: death, hate crime, HIV/AIDS and hospitalization, medical trauma, police brutality, deadnaming, homophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, xenophobia... Basically all the hateful "phobia"s honestly.
CW: death, hate crime, HIV/AIDS and hospitalization, medical trauma, police brutality, deadnaming, homophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, xenophobia... Basically all the hateful "phobia"s honestly.
October 24, 2023
En verdad no me gusta leer libros yankis xq no entiendo nada de lo q les pasa en esas calles tan largas o en la lavandería
Pero me lo he terminado xq me lo prestó raq y raq es mi familia y no sé si todo el mundo necesita una familia pero para la gente queer seguro que si o sea no para existir porque yo ya existía antes pero no ahora existo de verdad o sea existo siendo queer y con una familia queer y me leo sus libros y muchas más cosas
Pero me lo he terminado xq me lo prestó raq y raq es mi familia y no sé si todo el mundo necesita una familia pero para la gente queer seguro que si o sea no para existir porque yo ya existía antes pero no ahora existo de verdad o sea existo siendo queer y con una familia queer y me leo sus libros y muchas más cosas
January 9, 2014
This is one of those books that's more important than it is good. Books like this need to exist, but it has a few flaws. It's formulaic, the prose is naïve, and it's more than a little obvious in its message. Full marks for being good for the community, but it's hard to say that it's good.
It's not bad.
It's not bad.
March 12, 2024
reading this in the current climate makes a lot of these things hit harder - Palestine and Trans lives especially. i wept like a baby towards the end, leslie feinberg’s writing is so raw, even when writing fiction, i loved every word
August 26, 2026
una lectura que quería disfrutar muchísimo, quería que me atrapase tanto como Stone Butch Blues. sin embargo me he encontrado un libro que se me ha atragantado hasta la mitad…..ha sido ahí cuando creo haberlo entendido como lo que leslie quiso que fuese. me ha encantado que tratase sobre un grupo de amigues militantes, sobre sus dudas, miedos y convicciones. también me ha encantado el legado comunista y antisionista que deja. gracias leslie una vez más
“A ti, querido camarada, te hacemos la solemne promesa
de que la lucha sigue, la lucha sigue
descansa, querido camarada, nuestro trabajo acaba de empezar. La lucha continuará hasta que venzamos, hasta que venzamos.”
“A ti, querido camarada, te hacemos la solemne promesa
de que la lucha sigue, la lucha sigue
descansa, querido camarada, nuestro trabajo acaba de empezar. La lucha continuará hasta que venzamos, hasta que venzamos.”
June 7, 2015
I honestly don't understand why this has so many negative reviews. I loved it! It reminded me so much of my life living in the queer neighbourhood in Seattle post 9/11 and why we left America. Like Stone butch blues there were parts that made me cry and parts that made me smile. The main character wasn't perfect but I could identify with hir struggles. I liked the way people were able to reach beyond their own communities to start helping each other. The message of this book was that the oppressed need to stand together. That people are connected. It was a lovely character piece as well as a call to action.
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January 4, 2023Was Leslie Feinberg a *skillful* writer? Maybe not in the words-way, but ze punches hir readers in the throat with hir work. So yeah, there’s some craft. The art of spooning raw emotional responses out of you. Anyway, it’s sad, much like Stone Butch Blues, but a little sadder.
I definitely see where some of the characters and narration was clouded by like, rose-colored retrospection about the 80s and 90s, because there was some questionable handling of diverse characters. I think ze would have found more nuance and tact if ze was still here writing today.
I definitely see where some of the characters and narration was clouded by like, rose-colored retrospection about the 80s and 90s, because there was some questionable handling of diverse characters. I think ze would have found more nuance and tact if ze was still here writing today.
March 15, 2020
the ending of this book. oh my god. every day i just hope leslie feinberg would be proud of me
August 20, 2025
leslie’s geist atmet aus jeder seite und es ist extrem toll das lesen zu dürfen. mochte das setting anfang der 00er jahre sehr, und auch die art aus dem alltag dieses kleinen grüppchens familie zu erzählen. hat mich viel über solidarität nachdenken lassen. und habe während dem lesen glaub endlich begonnen, einen für mich sehr (trans)männlich konnotierten umgang mit gefühlen besser zu verstehen.
January 28, 2008
After reading Stone Butch Blues, I expected so much from this book. I had seen Feinberg speak and I loved what I heard; however, after doing so many inspirational talks, Feinberg seems to have lost the literary spark that made Stone Butch Blues so incredible. I found Drag King Dreams to be an incredibly obvious book. Lessons intended to shock and educate fell flat and failed to enhance the story. Many details were not well researched (ie: a Deaf drag king performing with an amazing multimedia display at a regular gay bar, as though drag kings operate within budgets that allow for multimedia displays). I also thought the whole community was idealized: everyone is incredibly enlightened, conflicts only arise so the main character can grow as a person or respond by expressing Feinberg's own progressive values. This book made me mad because it underestimated its audience and overly simplified real issues it could have done more with. I read the whole thing because I had faith in Leslie Feinberg's ability to weave a beautiful story, and I was terribly disappointed. Hopefully this was just the curse of the irritating second novel, but it's going to take some convincing to get me to pick up the next one.
February 14, 2024
Las expectativas altas han jugado en mi contra en esta ocasión. He pretendido encontrar la misma sensación que cuando leí “Stone Butch Blues”, pero obviamente es otro libro.
Aún así he encontrado una gran novela en la que destaca una muestra valiente y reflexiva del género, la religión y la guerra. Y sobre todo insiste desde la novela en la necesidad de colectivizar la vida, los cuidados y la lucha.
Aún así he encontrado una gran novela en la que destaca una muestra valiente y reflexiva del género, la religión y la guerra. Y sobre todo insiste desde la novela en la necesidad de colectivizar la vida, los cuidados y la lucha.
July 14, 2026
20 anys després de la seva publicació aquest llibre continua sent un llibre amb temàtiques molt actuals:
- La violència constant contra les persones queers, la transfòbia, el racisme, la precarietat laboral…
- La ràbia i les ganes de lluitar contra les injustícies que ens atravessen, barrejades amb l’esgotament i la supervivència.
- El conflicte de Palestina i les discussions sobre Israel, un tema a l’ordre del dia encara avui, però vistes des de punts de vista de persones jueves.
- Les identitats de gènere dissidents i complicades d’entendre i d’habitar fins i tot per a un mateix
- I al cap i a la fi la necessitat de cuidar-nos entre nosaltres perquè ningú més ho farà.
En resum:
M’ha agradat? Si.
M’ha entretingut? Si.
Parla de temes rellevants? Si
M’he sentit identificada? Si, en varies ocasions.
M’ha arribat al cor de la mateixa manera que ho va fer Stone Butch Blues? No.
Per aquest motiu es queda en un 3,5. Ha estat una molt bona lectura, i la recomano, però es fa difícil posar-li un 4 o més en comparació a altres històries similars.
Tot i així, Leslie Feinber t’estimo i gràcies per tot.💘
March 17, 2025
Con lo mucho que me gustó Stone Butch Blues, me da pena que éste no me haya conseguido enganchar para nada. Veo el mérito y la historia entiendo que es sobrecogedora también, pero es que no me ha tenido ahí. Qué mal.
December 11, 2025
pura emoción... ser-elegirser mientras eres-eligesser... dudando de ti y siendo rechazado por el resto pero con la confianza puesta siempre en lo colectivo
violencia policial, racismo, género, identidades, religión, guerra... en el brutal capitalismo de un eeuu post 11S.
cuantísimo que contar. ojalá existiera una novela para cada amigue de max ❤️
violencia policial, racismo, género, identidades, religión, guerra... en el brutal capitalismo de un eeuu post 11S.
cuantísimo que contar. ojalá existiera una novela para cada amigue de max ❤️
June 6, 2026
Qué penica, simplemente no conecté nada...Pero le daré chance a Stone Butch Blues!!
May 15, 2025
(Por fin) he terminado este libro tan bonito que me regaló Mazu en nuestro bookclub particular. Un abracito queer para el corazón ❤️🩹
November 5, 2019
This is one of those books I can't talk to anyone about, because it came for me specifically at so many junctures that to have someone I know read it would be to bare WAY more of my soul than I need to be baring right now. The simultaneous reflection of difference (the characters are decades older than me, queer norms have changed in the last 15 years, the world in some ways and for some queers is much safer than it was) and sameness (Max... I cannot, as previously mentioned, say too much about how I feel about Max. The new feeling of urgency of activism and the ambivalence and danger around it, the solidarity between and within communities, the messiness of tight queer community, the way trauma informs everything that happens but doesn't excuse those actions, the way we both disappoint and uphold our values) made this a quite painful reading experience. But it came to me at a time when I needed it, and it showed me myself, or some versions of myself, and it showed me versions of my community, and that fundamental specificity of experience, and reminded me that despite everything, people have been living this life for a long, long time.
February 24, 2024
As a "bad queer" I haven't yet read Stone Butch Blues before reading Drag King Dreams by the same author Leslie Feinberg. Many reviews here seem to compare the two in the sense of author's non-fictional work vs fictional writing, mostly preferring SBB and other NF work. I am reviewing solely on this book itself.
This book is a near 5/5 for me. Is some of the writing simple? Sure. However, I feel so appreciative to have read this book at this moment in time. When it's easy to feel hopeless and powerless about US's complicity with the genocide of Palestinians by Israel as days go by with more and more violence. Or news of young trans and queer youth losing their lives and rights in the US. But reading this book I am inspired just like Max in activism, reempowered to find my people and reinvigorated to make a change and stand for what's right. To walk away from a book feeling so strongly, I think is an honor.
This book is a near 5/5 for me. Is some of the writing simple? Sure. However, I feel so appreciative to have read this book at this moment in time. When it's easy to feel hopeless and powerless about US's complicity with the genocide of Palestinians by Israel as days go by with more and more violence. Or news of young trans and queer youth losing their lives and rights in the US. But reading this book I am inspired just like Max in activism, reempowered to find my people and reinvigorated to make a change and stand for what's right. To walk away from a book feeling so strongly, I think is an honor.
September 7, 2023
M'ha agradat molt. El record de Stone Butch Blues m'ha fet afrontar aquest llibre amb les expectatives altíssimes. Així i tot, les ha complert. És tendre, però també és dur. És íntim i personal, però sobretot és polític i col·lectiu. La lluita queer i antiracista unides contra la repressió i violència policial de la "guerra contra el terrorisme" post 11s.
petonets cuirs<3
petonets cuirs<3
April 3, 2025
this book did so much for my gay yiddishe heart. leslie feinberg’s words & perspective are a gift to us all
February 7, 2026
Content was interesting and moving but the delivery made me cringe
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July 11, 2026Quiero mucho a Leslie, ojalá tener un 1% de su lucidez
June 26, 2024
I found it empowering reading about gender queer, trans, etc characters finding their family and finding strength in their identity and community to fight for others. I thought this book was a quick and easy to follow read… but that doesnt mean i found it boring! I thought it was an interesting view into the happenings of that time.
Found comfort in max’s vulnerability with friends/found family and how none of them could really show up 100% for each other yet they showed up as best they could and filled each other’s gaps.
I genuinely enjoyed this book so much.
Found comfort in max’s vulnerability with friends/found family and how none of them could really show up 100% for each other yet they showed up as best they could and filled each other’s gaps.
I genuinely enjoyed this book so much.
July 25, 2026
Durante la mayor parte de la lectura quería que este libro fuese Stone Butch Blues. Hacia el final, lo fui entendiendo como es. Se siente muy distinto, tiene el ritmo y conciencia de la ciudad, de una ciudad tan fuerte como Nueva York. Nueva York después del 11S. Estrategias policiales para tomar impulso en la impunidad de la violencia racista, de sexo-género, etc.
Palestina libre desde el río hasta el mar
Palestina libre desde el río hasta el mar
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May 5, 2025As I once felt when I read Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg does it again with Drag King Dreams: a book that seems to speak directly to my worries, my longings, what I care about, my self. A novel whose characters and conflicts are as real as life itself, and whose struggles are still ever present 20 years after it was written. I hope people aren't missing out on this book, vastly different from the classic that is Stone Butch Blues but which shows what Feinberg wanted to transmit later in hir life, a progression of hir queer, revolutionary existence. I feel like I'm growing up next to hir books, somehow.
November 16, 2025
(3.5) Un poco triste por pensar que no puedo leer más novelas de Leslie Feinberg.
En esta novela el tema y el enfoque no tienen nada que ver con Stone Butch Blues, aquí lo trans y la persecución trans, LGTB y a inmigrantes tras el 11-S en Nueva York lo ocupan todo.
Me ha parecido muy interesante esta nueva deriva de la autora y es una novela muy muy disfrutable porque escribe maravillosamente.
La historia me ha parecido muy interesante y mucho más política que la anterior, cosa que empezó encandilándome y que se desinfló al final por la no resolución o desarrollo de algunos conflictos.
Pero está bien. Los personajes son muy realistas y redondos, los temas no pueden ser más actuales.
En esta novela el tema y el enfoque no tienen nada que ver con Stone Butch Blues, aquí lo trans y la persecución trans, LGTB y a inmigrantes tras el 11-S en Nueva York lo ocupan todo.
Me ha parecido muy interesante esta nueva deriva de la autora y es una novela muy muy disfrutable porque escribe maravillosamente.
La historia me ha parecido muy interesante y mucho más política que la anterior, cosa que empezó encandilándome y que se desinfló al final por la no resolución o desarrollo de algunos conflictos.
Pero está bien. Los personajes son muy realistas y redondos, los temas no pueden ser más actuales.
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