Leslie Feinberg (1) (1949–2014)
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Leslie Feinberg was born in Kansas City, Missouri on September 1, 1949. At the age of 14, she began supporting herself by working in the display sign shop of a local department store. She eventually stopped attending high school, though she officially received her diploma. She was a pioneer in mehr anzeigen transgender and lesbian issues, workers' rights, and intersectionality. She was a journalist for the Workers World newspaper since 1974, was the editor of the Political Prisoners page of Workers World newspaper for 15 years, and became a managing editor in 1995. She wrote several books during her lifetime including Stone Butch Blues, Transgender Warriors: Making History, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue, Drag King Dreams, and Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba. She received numerous awards including the Lambda Literary Award and the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award. She died from complications of Lyme disease and multiple tick-borne co-infections diseases on November 15, 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (1999) — Mitwirkender — 79 Exemplare
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Mitwirkender — 47 Exemplare
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- Geburtstag
- 1949-09-01
- Todestag
- 2014-11-15
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Wohnorte
- Buffalo, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA - Berufe
- writer
transgender activist - Beziehungen
- Pratt, Minnie Bruce (spouse)
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- Workers World Party
National Writers Union
Pride at Work (AFL-CIO) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Lambda Literary Foundation's Pioneer Award (2009)
- Kurzbiographie
- Leslie Feinberg was an activist who identified as queer and transgender, preferring she/zie or her/hir pronouns.
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"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 1950s. 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, learning to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence."… (mehr)