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leslie feinberg (september 1, 1949 – november 15, 2014) was an american butch lesbian, transgender activist, communist, and author. hir writing, notably stone butch blues (1993) and hir pioneering popular history book transgender warriors (1996), 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.

feinberg described hirself as "an anti-racist white, working-class, secular jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist."

leslie died on november 15, 2014. zie succumbed to complications from multiple tick-borne co-infections, after decades of illness. zie died at home in syracuse, ny, with hir partner and spouse of 22 years, minnie bruce pratt, at hir side.

hir last words were: “remember me as a revolutionary communist.”

books

• stone butch blues (1993). download on leslie’s website for free.
• transgender warriors (1996)
• transgender liberation (1998)
• drag king dreams (2006)

interviews

• on our backs interview with leslie feinberg. by leslie feinberg and athena douris, 1998.
• interview with leslie feinberg, originally published in the san francisco bay guardian
• 1993: the life and times of a gender outlaw: an interview with leslie feinberg, posted on 2013 by cristan williams.
• in the life: interview with kate bornstein, leslie feinberg

videos + docs

• outlaw (1994, directed by alisa lebow)
• transexual menace (1996, directed by vor transsexuellen wird gewarnt)
• leslie feinberg in buffalo, june 2, 2006.
• leslie feinberg celebrating stone butch blues at charis books, 1993.

extras

• queering class: leslie feinberg’s “stone butch blues”, by cat moses
• minnie bruce pratt interviewed by kelly anderson, 2005.
• lgbts pela palestina: leslie feinberg - mulheres soda #15