Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue - Hardcover

Feinberg, Leslie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807079502 ISBN 13: 9780807079508

Publisher: Beacon Pr, 1998

Synopsis

Presents a collection of speeches and essays about gender expression and the struggles of the gay, lesbian, bi, and transsexual community

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Review:

Although readers familiar with Feinberg's earlier books will not find much new material here, this collection of hir (this transgendered author's pronoun of choice) speeches, presented with a few essays by other transgendered writers, serves as a good introduction to Feinberg's ideas about the complexities of gender expression and to hir vision for a future "beyond pink or blue." As someone who faces oppression, incomprehension, and violence every day on the basis of hir appearance and the refusal to adhere to a rigid gender designation (Feinberg was once denied emergency medical treatment for endocarditis by a doctor who dismissed hir angrily as "a very troubled person"), Feinberg is in an excellent position to refute the shallow assumptions of the medical establishment and the mainstream media, as well as the more extreme views of the political and religious right. Most compelling are hir arguments on the importance of a broad-based multi-issue coalition among gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people, an alliance that could easily extend to other progressive groups. "Everyone who is under the gun of reaction and economic violence," Feinberg contends, "is a potential ally." --Regina Marler

About the Author:

Leslie Feinberg is author of Transgender Warriors and the underground classic Stone Butch Blues. One of Curve magazine's fifteen most influential in the battle for gay and lesbian rights, s/he is also winner of the ALA Gay and Lesbian Literature Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award for nonfiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0807079502
• ISBN 13: 9780807079508
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 147