Leslie Feinberg
Leslie Feinberg (born September 1, 1949 in Kansas City , Missouri , † November 15, 2014 in Syracuse , New York ) was an American person in the field of writing and active in the LGBT sector .
Life
Feinberg was a senior member of the American Workers World Party and editor-in-chief of Workers World magazine . Feinberg was also involved at Camp Trans and received an honorary doctorate from the Starr King School for the Ministry for work in the area of transgender and social engagement. Feinberg wrote on LGBT issues. In 1994 Feinberg received both the Stonewall Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award for the novel Stone Butch Blues . This novel is not autobiographical.
Feinberg was assigned the female gender at birth and underwent intermittent treatment with male hormones in adulthood . Feinberg's partner was the lesbian poet Minnie Bruce Pratt .
Works
- 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
- Dreams in the waking morning: Stone Butch Blues , 3rd edition 2008, Berlin: Verlag Krug & Schadenberg, ISBN 978-3-930041-35-0
Research literature
- Judith Halberstam (1996): Lesbian Masculinity. Or, Even Stone Butches Get the Blues, in: Women & Performance. A Journal of Feminist Theory , Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 61-73.
- Cat Moses (1999): Queering Class. Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, in: Studies in the Novel , Vol. 31 No. 1, pp. 74-97.
- Nadyne Stritzke (2011): Subversive literary performativity. The narrative staging of gender identities in English and German-language contemporary novels. Table of contents , including Chapter 4: Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues (1993). Enlightenment and subversion of (transgender) sexual desire and identity structures, pp. 251–264. Wissenschaftsverlag Trier, Trier, ISBN 9783868213003
Web links
- Leslie Feinberg
- Column in Worker's World
- Literature by and about Leslie Feinberg in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Transgender Pioneer and Stone Butch Blues Author Leslie Feinberg Has Died. In: Advocate , November 17, 2014 (English).
- ↑ News and Events
- ^ Curve Magazine, via Leslie Feinberg, by Gretchen Lee ( July 5, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Abridged excerpt from Leslie Feinberg's Transgender Warriors. From Joan of Arc to RuPaul at EMMA , November 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feinberg, Leslie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author and activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kansas City (Missouri) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th November 2014 |
| Place of death | Syracuse (New York) |