Pioneering author and trans activist Leslie Feinberg has passed - TopicsExpress



          

Pioneering author and trans activist Leslie Feinberg has passed away. According to an obituary written by Feinbergs wife, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and published in the The Advocate magazine: Feinberg was the first theorist to advance a Marxist concept of “transgender liberation,” and her work impacted popular culture, academic research, and political organizing. Her impact on mass culture was primarily through her 1993 first novel, Stone Butch Blues, widely considered in and outside the U.S. as a groundbreaking work about the complexities of gender. Full story at: bit.ly/1EVzkUs
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:14:35 +0000

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