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Leslie Feinberg (zie/hir) (1949-2014) was an absolute giant, a foundational figure in queer liberation, workers’ rights, antiwar, and proletarian literature movements in the United States and around the world.  Perhaps best known for hir work as an author and as a Jewish nonbinary lesbian activist, zie was also an early member of the Workers’ World Party, longtime editor WW’s newspaper, and a close confidant of Sam Marcy, and was on the front line of a lot of struggles from the 1960s up until hir death in 2014.

Leslie’s most famous work is probably Stone Butch Blues, a simi-autobiography about growing up as a working-class nonbinary lesbian in 1950s/60s New York and the intersection between queer liberation and the labor movement.  Follow the link for a free PDF!  It is a must-read!  (MASSIVE trigger warnings for sexual assault and misogynistic and queerphobic violence throughout – shit gets pretty real)

Other must-reads include Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left, a collection of Leslie’s columns from the Workers’ World newspaper, most famously dwelling on the necessity of an international and working-class character for queer liberation.

And zie also gave us Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come and Transgender Warriors: Making History From Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, works on queer theory and trans liberation from a materialist, working-class perspective.

Leslie was also one of the founders of Camp Trans, an ongoing protest against the janky-ass TERFs running the MichFest women’s music festival:

Amid the punk ethics of 1990’s identity politics, trans activists Leslie Feinberg and Riki Anne Wilchins spearhead a movement to protest the trans-exclusionary policy of a women’s music festival in CAMP TRANS.

And here’s Leslie giving hir amazing lecture, Beyond Pink Or Blue: The Transgender Movement Yesterday, Today, and in the Future:

Though Leslie tragically passed away from Lyme disease in 2014, hir legacy will live on forever.

From the “Beyond Pink or Blue” video:

We can’t throw enough people overboard to be acceptable to our enemies, all we can do is weaken the movement by doing that

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