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Leslie Feinberg
Leslie Feinberg
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Born	September 1, 1949 (age 60); Buffalo, N.Y.
Occupation	activist, speaker, and author
Literary movement	transgender liberation
	www.TransgenderWarrior.org; Official website

Leslie Feinberg (born September 1, 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.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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 and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Starr King School for the Ministry for transgender and social justice work.^[4]

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, the fictional work is not autobiographical^[5]. This book is frequently taught at colleges and universities and is widely considered a groundbreaking work about gender.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Leslie Feinberg is Jewish, and was born female^[9]. Feinberg prefers the gender-neutral pronouns "hir" and "ze". Feinberg writes: "I have shaped myself surgically and hormonally twice in my life, and I reserve the right to do it again."^[10]

[edit] Books by Leslie Feinberg

Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come. 1992, World View Forum. ISBN 0-89567-105-0
Stone Butch Blues. 1993, San Francisco: Firebrand Books. ISBN 1-55583-853-7
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman. 1996, Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-7941-3
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. 1999, Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-7951-0
Drag King Dreams. 2006, New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-1763-7

[edit] References

^ Leslie Feinberg: New book, birthday celebrated LeiLani Dowell, September 9, 2009.
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^ Leftist transgender activist defies university censorship Larry Hales, LeiLani Dowell; Ft. Collins, Colo.; April 27, 2005.
^ News and Events
^ Curve: Leslie Feinberg
^ Violence and the body: race, gender, and the state Arturo J. Aldama; Indiana University Press, 2003; ISBN 025334171X, 9780253341716.
^ Omnigender: a trans-religious approach Virginia R. Mollenkott, Pilgrim Press, 2001; ISBN 0829814221, 9780829814224.
^ Gay & lesbian literature, Volume 2 Sharon Malinowski, Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast; St. James Press, 1998; ISBN 1558623507, 9781558623507.
^ "Challenging Gender Order. Two New Books on the Boundary", Buffalo News, 22 January 1993
^ Traversing Boundaries of Gender. Two Books Challenge Conventional Notions." St. Louis Post - Dispatch, 18 August 1996.

[edit] External links

Leslie Feinberg's homepage
Lavender & Red, Feinberg's columns in Worker's World

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[0] Leslie Feinberg: New book, birthday celebrated LeiLani Dowell, September 9, 2009.

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[2] Leftist transgender activist defies university censorship Larry Hales, LeiLani Dowell; Ft. Collins, Colo.; April 27, 2005.

[3] News and Events

[4] Curve: Leslie Feinberg

[5] Violence and the body: race, gender, and the state Arturo J. Aldama; Indiana University Press, 2003; ISBN 025334171X, 9780253341716.

[6] Omnigender: a trans-religious approach Virginia R. Mollenkott, Pilgrim Press, 2001; ISBN 0829814221, 9780829814224.

[7] Gay & lesbian literature, Volume 2 Sharon Malinowski, Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast; St. James Press, 1998; ISBN 1558623507, 9781558623507.

[8] "Challenging Gender Order. Two New Books on the Boundary", Buffalo News, 22 January 1993

[9] Traversing Boundaries of Gender. Two Books Challenge Conventional Notions." St. Louis Post - Dispatch, 18 August 1996.

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