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Leslie Feinberg (1949 - )
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 Transgender
Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by
Leslie Feinberg
Leslie Feinberg has been a leader in the
transgender rights movement as long as such a movement has
existed. This book is both deeply personal and widely researched.
Feinberg examines perceptions of the body, the status of clothing,
and the structures of societies that welcome or are threatened by
gender variance. The portrait gallery that closes the book
contains photographs and capsule biographies of contemporary
transgendered people.
 Trans
Liberation : Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg
Although readers familiar with Feinberg's
earlier books will not find much new material here, this
collection of hir (this transgendered author's pronoun of choice)
speeches, presented with a few essays by other transgendered
writers, serves as a good introduction to Feinberg's ideas about
the complexities of gender expression and to hir vision for a
future "beyond pink or blue." As someone who faces
oppression, incomprehension, and violence every day on the basis
of hir appearance and the refusal to adhere to a rigid gender
designation (Feinberg was once denied emergency medical treatment
for endocarditis by a doctor who dismissed hir angrily as "a
very troubled person"), Feinberg is in an excellent position
to refute the shallow assumptions of the medical establishment and
the mainstream media, as well as the more extreme views of the
political and religious right. Most compelling are hir arguments
on the importance of a broad-based multi-issue coalition among
gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people, an alliance that
could easily extend to other progressive groups. "Everyone
who is under the gun of reaction and economic violence,"
Feinberg contends, "is a potential ally." --Regina
Marler
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Personal domain of Leslie Feinberg where you can explore the entire spectrum of sex and gender and the movement for liberation.
This site hosts links to articles
by Leslie Feinberg.
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From the Leslie Feinberg website
Excerpt:
Feinberg is a national leader of Workers World
Party, and a Managing Editor of Workers World newspaper. S/he is
well-known in the U.S. and many other parts of the world as an
activist who works to help forge a strong bond between the
lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans communities. As a trade unionist,
anti-racist and socialist, Feinberg also organizes to build strong
bonds of unity between these struggles and those of movements in
defense of oppressed nationalities, women, disabled, and the
working class movement as a whole. Feinberg has worked for more
than 25 years in defense of the sovereignty, self-determination
and treaty rights of Native nations and for freedom of political
prisoners in the U.S. S/he is an internationalist and has been
part of the anti-Pentagon movement since the U.S. war against
Vietnam...
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By Leslie Feinberg, Workers World Newspaper,
October 8, 1998
Excerpt:
It’s not just the rate of
violence against gay and trans people in New York that is on the
rise. Outrage is mounting in these oppressed communities as well.
Members of the targeted
communities say it’s a good thing they are marching and holding
news conferences and town meetings to bring this bigotry-driven
violence to public attention. Because Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and
Gov. George Pataki haven’t uttered a single word about the wave
of terror attacks.
Reports of anti-gay and
anti-trans attacks in New York have soared more than 81 percent
this year. Since May at least four—and possibly as many as
seven—gay men and trans people have been killed in Greenwich
Village. All four were people of color, and two were
trans-identified.
These murders took place in the
wake of six more. All of these six were trans people. All the
crimes remain unsolved by the police...
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By Leslie Feinberg, Workers World Newspaper,
October 22, 1998
Excerpt:
"Which side are you
on?" asks a popular old union song. The side of workers and
oppressed peoples? Or the reactionary camp of the bosses? Those
battle lines are being redrawn today in a political struggle
raging around the hate-driven killing of a gentle, proud-to-be-gay
young student in Wyoming.
If the sheer magnitude of the
support of millions of people of all sexualities across the United
States and around the world were all that was required to bring
young Matthew Shepard back from the brink of death, he would
surely be alive today...
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