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"It is not the answers you get, but the questions you ask, that determine the shape of your becoming." — Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, 1993.
I have spent fifty-some years being told what I am by people who never asked. I learned, slowly, in this Southern heat, to let their verdict pass through me like weather.
#LeslieFeinberg #Trans #Transgender #QueerLit #LGBTQIA #lgbtqiaplus #Pride #QueerHistory #TransgenderRights #Solidarity #Journalism #mastodon #mutualaid
https://twp.ai/4htAam
Leslie Feinberg speech at Aswat conference 2007
"Leslie Feinberg, a lesbian transgender and Jewish communist and a managing editor of Workers World, delivered the following solidarity statement to the first public conference of Aswat—Palestinian Gay Women—in Haifa on March 28, 2007. Bracketed words, phrases and sentences were delivered in Arabic. The 10th anniversary of comrade Leslie’s death will be marked on Nov. 15."
[I know where I stand: in historic Palestine. So my first words must be in Arabic. Thank you for inviting me here. It is the largest honor in my life. I salute Aswat.]
My first words in English must be why I am here, within the 1948 borders of the Israeli settler state. Why am I here when the colonial occupier set up an apartheid state in the name of Jewish people and co-opts the symbol of Judaism, stitching it into every uniform, flying it from every tank turret?
Why am I here when I remember, every day of my adult life, what happened to the people of Deir Yassin?"
Unfortunately, film material of hir speech has been removed from YT and Insta.
Text: https://www.workers.org/2024/06/79271/
@[email protected] @[email protected]
#SolidarityPalestine #Palestine #BoycottIsrael #LeslieFeinberg #Aswat #QueersForPalestine #LGBTQplus #Lebanon #StoneButchBlues
Happy #nonbinaryday an alle da draußen! 👋😘
"You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit."
The Origins of the Mattachine Movement and Harry Hay's Political Awakening - Leslie Feinberg (from Lavender & Red, 2005) #lgbt #lgbtq #socialist #communist #harryhay #mattachine #lesliefeinberg #marxist
The Catch-22 of Early LGBTQ Organizing - Leslie Feinberg (from Lavender & Red, 2005) #lgbt#lgbtq #socialist #communist #harryhay #mattachine #lesliefeinberg #marxist
A reminder that Leslie Feinberg has made this book, Stone Butch Blues, available to the public.
https://lesliefeinberg.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Stone-Butch-Blues-by-Leslie-Feinberg.pdf
"#History, in the hands of those who have the most to gain from change, is a formidable weapon. That's why colonizers and imperialists always burned and destroyed the historical accounts of those they conquered. They revise history to parrot one message over and over again: "the way things are now is the way they've always been". The meaning is clear and demoralizing: Don't even think about fighting for #change."
#LeslieFeinberg #history #colonization
"My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you."
#LeslieFeinberg
#HappyPrideMonth to everybody! :BlobhajPrideHeart: ✊️
Leslie Feinberg speech at Aswat conference 2007
"Leslie Feinberg, a lesbian transgender and Jewish communist and a managing editor of Workers World, delivered the following solidarity statement to the first public conference of Aswat—Palestinian Gay Women—in Haifa on March 28, 2007. Bracketed words, phrases and sentences were delivered in Arabic. The 10th anniversary of comrade Leslie’s death will be marked on Nov. 15."
[I know where I stand: in historic Palestine. So my first words must be in Arabic. Thank you for inviting me here. It is the largest honor in my life. I salute Aswat.]
My first words in English must be why I am here, within the 1948 borders of the Israeli settler state. Why am I here when the colonial occupier set up an apartheid state in the name of Jewish people and co-opts the symbol of Judaism, stitching it into every uniform, flying it from every tank turret?
Why am I here when I remember, every day of my adult life, what happened to the people of Deir Yassin? 1/n
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuA_ifp1jLY
#SolidarityPalestine #Palestine #BoycottIsrael #LeslieFeinberg #Aswat @palestine @israel #QueersForPalestine #LGBTQplus #Lebanon #StoneButchBlues
I noticed this as well!
#AncientTexts depict all kinds of people, not just straight and cis ones – this college course looks at #LGBTQ sexuality and #gender in #Egypt, #Greece and #Rome
By Tina Chronopoulos
Published: September 11, 2023
Title of course:
“LGBTQ Antiquity: A View from the Mediterranean”
What prompted the idea for the course?
I study Greek and Latin literature and have noticed that ancient authors wrote about sex, #homoerotic feelings or relations, and gender more often than we assume.
A few figures from ancient Mediterranean mythology are sometimes held up as LGBTQ ancestors – such as the Greek gods #Apollo and #Zeus who both loved other men. But in a mythology course I taught in the fall of 2021, I found myself highlighting a number of other stories about same-sex attraction and gender variance beyond a strict male-female binary. For example, spells from Egypt show that there were women who tried to get other women to fall in love with them.
Students responded with such curiosity and excitement that I decided to create a stand-alone course that would focus exclusively on these topics.
What does the course explore?
The course explores literary texts from the #AncientMediterranean – including #Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Roman Italy – in which authors describe relationships that can be said to fall under the LGBTQ umbrella. We read the texts in chronological order, rather than grouped by theme or identity. This allows students to encounter the texts relatively label-free, since the words U.S. society uses to talk about gender and sexuality today – like “gay” or “transgender” – do not always align with ancient understandings.
Why is this course relevant now?
Assaults on members of the LGBTQ community, especially trans folks, are rising in the United States: both through legal means in a number of states and through physical attacks and hate crimes.
My goal is for students to take courage and hope from knowing that same-sex relationships and gender diversity have existed in various guises for millennia. In antiquity, homosexuality was not considered an identity category the way it is today, making it hard to determine if and how LGBTQ-like people were discriminated against, but they certainly were not always met with contempt. For example, the body of #Hermaphroditus, a god whom Greeks sought out for help with fertility and child care issues, combined female and male characteristics.
I also want students to connect with the past as a way to feel rooted and validated. In this, I took a cue from trans activist #LeslieFeinberg, who wrote in the 1996 book “#TransgenderWarriors,” “I couldn’t find myself in history. No one like me seemed to have ever existed.”
What’s a critical lesson from the course?
LGBTQ-like individuals have always been here, although modern conceptions of self, gender and sexuality cannot be mapped directly onto the past.
The identities we know today were unknown then: The concept of homosexuality as a distinct sexual orientation or distinct kind of behavior did not exist. For instance, elite men in ancient Athens often engaged in same-sex relationships with men alongside their marriages to women. Those who were in exclusively homoerotic relationships, however, tended to be ridiculed.
Another critical lesson is that language matters. The words we use today are often inadequate to capture how social status or age intersected with one’s gender in the ancient Mediterranean. Take the Greek word for a woman or wife, “γῠνή.” Typically, this word refers to an upper-class woman, rather than, say, one who is enslaved or a foreigner. Norms around sexual activity depended on a person’s social status, age and gender.
What materials does the course feature?
Students come into the course expecting to encounter celebrated characters such as the poet #Sappho, from the Greek island of #Lesbos, whom lesbians have regarded as an ancestor.
However, we also read less famous authors, such as #Lucian of #Samosata, a Syrian-born satirist from the second century C.E. In one of his dialogues, a sex worker tells her friend about an encounter she had with two other women, one of whom describes herself as “quite like a man.”
Not all authors are sympathetic. #JohnChrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople at the end of the fourth century C.E., vilified people who engaged in homoerotic acts or homosexual relationships as criminals, mentally ill, diseased or diabolic. Many of these views are still being promulgated by religious leaders today.
The course also explores the lives of some Byzantine saints who were seen as women before they entered a monastery or became ascetics. Yet their self-punishing practices, such as extreme fasting, transformed their bodies, and the surrounding communities started to see them as men. These stories, which aimed to uplift their audiences, serve as a reminder that cross-dressing and gender variance were not always seen as objectionable.
#AncientRome #AncientGreece #AncientEgypt #LGBTQHistory #Histodon #AncientHistory
I ei djupt urettvis og ufri menneskeverd, anbefaler katten min ei bok som kan bidra til å gjera kroppen til den som les henne ekstra deileg å liggja på:
Stone Butch Blues
Gjort gratis tilgjengeleg av Feinberg sjølv her: https://www.lesliefeinberg.net/
#Caturday #Klassekamp #SkeivHistorie #StoneButchBlues #LeslieFeinberg #LHBTQ+ #LGBTQ+
"Lavender & Red (Parts 7-9)" (2004) by Leslie Feinberg. When LGBTQ+ History Meets Socialist History.
#socialism #socialist #communism #communist #bolshevik #marxism #marxist #russia #lesliefeinberg #lgbt #lgbtq
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=bq_dRdvjkCo
#LeslieFeinberg Parts 1to3 (2004) #When #LGBTQIAplus #QueerHistory Meets #SocialistHistory
From the #SocialismForAll Channel #S4A
35/2023: Leslie Feinberg, 1. September 1949
https://frauenfiguren.de/2023/09/01/35-2023-leslie-feinberg-1-september-1949/
#Aktivistin #AntiDiskriminierung #Frauenfiguren #Kalender #Literatur #Menschenrechte #Politik #Roman #aids #AktivistysDesIntersektionalenFeminismus #babesiose #borreliose #butch #CeceMcdonald #DrBarnettSlepian #frauenfiguren #hormonersatztherapie #kalender #LavenderAndRed #lesbianismus #LeslieFeinberg #marxismusleninismus #MinnieBrucePlatt #pronomen #RosaVonPraunheim #Sto
Un par de cosas buenas de hoy:
He terminado de leer #StoneButchBlues, de #LeslieFeinberg, publicado en castellano por Levanta Fuego. Es una maravilla de #novela que solo puedo recomendar. Recuerdo pocos #libros que me hayan impactado, abrazado, dolido y esperanzado, todo junto, como éste ha sabido hacer. Qué MA-RA-VI-LLA de #libro.
#LibrosRecomendados
#LecturasRecomendadas
#LiteraturaQueer
#ApoyoMutuo #LuchaSocial
#booktodon #literaverso
I am sad to be memorializing #MinnieBrucePratt, #American #poet and militant activist. She has published eight books of poetry, The Sound of One Fork, We Say We Love Each Other, Crime Against Nature, Walking Back Up Depot Street, The Money Machine, The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems, Inside the Money Machine, and Magnified.
She was married to the writer and #transactivist #LeslieFeinberg. I feel privileged to have known them both, at least briefly.
https://minniebrucepratt.net/
Sharing this fascinating podcast after learning that the wonderful poet Minnie-Bruce Pratt, widow of activist/author/revolutionary communist Leslie Feinberg (Stone Butch Blues) is seriously ill and under palliative care, per https://minniebrucepratt.net/ 💔🙏
Sarah Heying talks w/ poet-activist #MinnieBrucePratt on the occasion of "Magnified," her latest #poetry collection - 3/15/21 https://www.autostraddle.com/labors-of-love-and-loss-an-interview-with-minnie-bruce-pratt-on-the-occasion-of-magnified-her-latest-poetry-collection/
#activism #lgbtqia+ #antiracism #lesbian #LeslieFeinberg #love #loss
#TransgenderWarriors by #LeslieFeinberg: 9780807079416 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/203953/transgender-warriors-by-leslie-feinberg/
#book 🏳️⚧️
#TransLiberation: Beyond Pink or Blue #book by #LeslieFeinberg https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/trans-liberation-beyond-pink-or-blue_leslie-feinberg/343804/item/26221595/?mkwid=%7cdm&pcrid=77309575864859&pkw=&pmt=be&slid=&product=26221595&plc=&pgrid=1236950834647387&ptaid=pla-4580909050129848&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Shopping+%7c+NEW+condition+books&utm_term=&utm_content=%7cdm%7cpcrid%7c77309575864859%7cpkw%7c%7cpmt%7cbe%7cproduct%7c26221595%7cslid%7c%7cpgrid%7c1236950834647387%7cptaid%7cpla-4580909050129848%7c&msclkid=e3e25fc635e419197f893bd73bc87643#idiq=26221595&edition=3515169
2/5 James Somerton's video "Why Bad Gays Are Good" reminded me of Leslie Feinberg's speech "Beyond Pink and Blue". So if you liked this speech, then I think you'll like his video too.
#socialmedia #youtube #twitter #jamessomerton #lesliefeinberg #liberationnotassimilation #queerliberation #queerart #queerartists
Je profite du fait que @Dykecyclette sorte sa version audio de Stone Butch Blues (de Leslie Feinberg) pour vous annoncer que j'en ai fait une édition EPUB.
Si vous connaissez pas, voici le résumé : Stone butch blues raconte l'histoire de Jess, né·e aux Etats-Unis dans les années 1950 au sein d'une famille juive et prolétaire. De son enfance rythmée par les interrogations des passant·es sur son genre ("c'est un garçon ou c'est une fille ? ") à son adolescence et sa découverte des bars de nuit où se côtoient lesbiennes, drag queens et travailleuses du sexe, de ses premières embauches en usine avec d'autres butchs à sa transition, jusqu'à sa rencontre avec le mouvement LGBT naissant, son parcours traverse les décennies et nous parle d'amour, d'amitié, de politique et de solidarité face à la violence de ce monde.
Le roman a été traduit par Hystériques&AssociéEs en 2019 qui l'a ensuite rendu disponible gratuitement en ligne chapitre par chapitre en HTML et PDF.
J'ai utilisé crowbook de @crowdagger pour en faire un epub qui est à présent disponible sur Library Genesis !
https://library.bz/fiction/uploads/0FEFAA07A499B7256C24A1773203254E
Bonne lecture !
#StoneButchBlues @frenchqueerpolitics #LeslieFeinberg #Queer #Fiction #QueerFiction #LesbianMasterpiece #BravoLesLesbiennes