Leslie Feinberg Quotes

Leslie Feinberg was an American butch lesbian, transgender activist, communist, and author. Feinberg authored Stone Butch Blues in 1993. Her writing, notably Stone Butch Blues and her pioneering non-fiction book Transgender Warriors , laid the groundwork for much of the terminology and awareness around gender studies and was instrumental in bringing these issues to a more mainstream audience. Wikipedia

✵ 1. September 1949 – 15. November 2014

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Stone Butch Blues

Stone Butch Blues

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Famous Leslie Feinberg Quotes

“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.”

Leslie Feinberg

Source: Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue

“If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian”

Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues

Source: Stone Butch Blues

“More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?”

Leslie Feinberg

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