Leslie Feinberg

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Leslie Feinberg
Born: 1949
Occupation: activist, speaker, and author

Leslie Feinberg (born 1949) 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.

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,[citation needed] 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 born female-assigned[1] and today prefers gender-neutral pronouns "hir" and "ze". Ze writes: "I have shaped myself surgically and hormonally twice in my life, and I reserve the right to do it again."[2]

[edit] Books by Leslie Feinberg

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Challenging Gender Order. Two New Books on the Boundary", Buffalo News, 22 January 1993
  2. ^ Traversing Boundaries of Gender. Two Books Challenge Conventional Notions." St. Louis Post - Dispatch, 18 August 1996.

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