In 2009, she released Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba-a compilation of 25 journalistic articles.
Also in 1996, Feinberg appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's documentary, Transexual Menace. Her nonfiction work included the books Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come in 1992 and Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman in 1996. Her second novel, Drag King Dreams, was released in 2006. While there are parallels to Feinberg's experiences as a working-class dyke, the work is not an autobiography. įeinberg's first novel, the 1993 Stone Butch Blues, won the Lambda Literary Award and the 1994 American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Award. As a member of the Workers World Party, she was the editor of the political prisoners page of the Workers World newspaper for fifteen years, and by 1995, she had become the managing editor. After moving to New York City, Feinberg took part in anti-war, anti-racist, and pro-labor demonstrations on behalf of the party for many years, including the March Against Racism (Boston, 1974), a national tour about HIV/AIDS (1983–84), and a mobilization against KKK members (Atlanta, 1988). When Feinberg was in her twenties, she met members of the Workers World Party at a demonstration for the land rights and self-determination of Palestinians and joined the Buffalo branch of the party. Feinberg began frequenting gay bars in Buffalo and primarily worked in low-wage and temporary jobs, including washing dishes, cleaning cargo ships, working as an ASL interpreter, inputting medical data, and working at a PVC pipe factory and a book bindery. Feinberg eventually dropped out of Bennett High School, though she officially received a diploma.
At fourteen years old, she began work at a display sign shop at a local department store.
Early life įeinberg was born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in Buffalo, New York in a working-class, Jewish family. Her writing, notably Stone Butch Blues and her pioneering non-fiction 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 authored Stone Butch Blues in 1993. Leslie Feinberg (Septem– November 15, 2014) was an American butch lesbian, transgender activist, communist, and author.
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