Stone Butch Blues

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Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence. Woman or man? That's the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue--collar town in the 1950's, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s. This powerful, provocative and deeply moving novel sees Jess coming full circle, she learns to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence. Leslie Feinberg is also the author of Trans Liberation , Trans Gender Warriors and Transgender Liberation , and is a noted activist and speaker on transgender issues.

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Poignant and foundational submitted by dayle on June 28, 2024, 3:11pm This book, one of the first published narratives of the trans experience, is beautifully written. It follows Jess, a “he-she” (butch lesbian? trans man? gender queer person) through zir coming of age in a pre-Stonewall Buffalo and into their adulthood. It shows the good, bad, and ugly of the trans experience and the live-giving properties of queer community. Painful at times to read, but so important.

bad submitted by samina on August 7, 2024, 3:28pm i found it boring and weird