#leslie feinberg

[elierlick]

Way ahead of hir time. Hopefully, one day, everyone will have full autonomy over their bodies, making arguments restricting hormones a thing of the past. Get your copy here.

[catrocketship]

Image: A drawing of hand-lettered words over a portrait of Leslie Feinberg: “My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.”

Feinberg -- dyke, transgender, organizer -- used the pronouns ze and hir, and described zirself as an "anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist."

Ze didn’t just see the world differently -- ze could articulate it. That clarity shaped how I understand gender, queerness, and the long arc of queer resistance in this place. Feinberg’s writing cracked things open for me.

I think I drew this on November 15, the anniversary of Feinberg’s death in 2014. Sending it out next month, in July, as a belated Pride reward for Print Club. Because queer history is always relevant. Because Feinberg is forever.

[digitaldogpark]

the one where cheerilee knows

[murderonthedullexpress]

“Trapped”

Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg

@/lilboyblueish on Instagram

Poem by Keaton St. James (@boykeats)

I/Me/Myself - Will Wood

We Both Laughed In Pleasure by Lou Sullivan

cis people asking cis questions by Silas Denver Melvin (@sweatermuppet)

Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote

[midwesternprincess]

i ♥️ leslie feinberg (the best of people stand for palestine)

🇵🇸 💗🤍🧡🏳️‍⚧️✡️

[vanillafemme]

Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg

[beefybutchboy]

like i need this tattooed or framed my god!!

[joenicky]

At the thrift and I want to die (in more ways than one)

[blessedscavengers]

nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me

terfs fuck off

made in 2023

[femmepathy]

Leslie Feinberg in Outlaw (1994) directed by Alisa Lebow

available now on archive.org!

[the-moon-is-bi]

"And I would say that people who were referred to as [...] butches, et cetera, nowadays we think of them sometimes as just being synonymous with a certain kind of sexuality but in fact there’s a lot of butch women who sleep with other butches or who are bisexual."

Leslie Feinberg in In the Life: Interview with Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg [unedited footage]

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Another post for JVP Boston I made and am quite proud of! I may do a sequel if requested because there are so many more great people we could cover:

Judith Butler

Jamie Margolin

Rabbi Alissa Klein

Miriam Margolyes

Avi Shlaim

If you have any more suggestions let me know!

[spidergvven]

"I am lesbian and transgender. I am a working-class, secular Jewish socialist. So let my first words be these: I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Arab and Muslim people in this room and around the world in the battle against the real axis of evil: the White House, Pentagon and Justice Department. And with every breath and every sinew, I fight for Palestinian liberation. ... I do not believe that our sexuality, gender expression and bodies can be liberated without making a ferocious mobilization against imperialist war and racism an integral part of our struggle. The degree to which any movement is progressive or revolutionary is measured by its independence from the rulers of the society it seeks to change. ... The U.S. claims that it pumps billions of dollars into the Israeli military each year in order to provide a safe haven for Jewish people. What a vicious lie! El Nakbe, the terrible catastrophe of using terror to slaughter Palestinians and drive millions into a forced Diaspora, was established to create a well-armed colonial outpost for big oil in the Middle East. This reactionary, apartheid crime against the people of Palestine is carried out in the name of all Jewish people in order to pit Jews against Arabs. The key to righting this historic wrong is to fight Zionism and its U.S. master. The Palestinian liberation movement is an anti-colonial movement. And I work to be counted as one of the best fighters for Palestinian liberation." - Leslie Feinberg

[giritina]

This is the part of Stone Butch Blues I think more people need to commit to memory

[puc-puggy]

leslie feinberg uses the term "he-she" to describe hirself through this section of the book and discusses taking hormones with the other butches at multiple points throughout. at the time, "butch" included everything from masc lesbians to he/him lesbians to outright trans men.

events quickly progress from calling butches and femmes brainwashed to kicking butches out of meetings and bars for being gender traitors. hir decision to start HRT was so controversial in separatist lesbian circles that it ended zir long-term relationship.

this was the impact of a separatist feminist movement on queer icon leslie feinberg, who suffered immensely from the hostility of the queer community toward zirself and the ensuing isolation and lack of community support. because denying queer people access to their community is a death sentence. zie went on to write stone butch blues about this oft-ignored and maligned branch of the queer family.

we know that transandrophobia exists. one of the most important landmark queer texts discusses it extensively. we know that separatist rhetoric harms every single member of the queer community with a connection to masculinity (A LOT OF US). we have been on this merry-go-round before, and we already know it sucks. let's not go around again. let's get off

[homoerotisch]

this is an anthology with articles reflecting on stone butch blues's thirtieth anniversary. it's open access in honor of leslie feinberg's memory. it's a german publication, but many of the articles are in english!