Stone-Butch-Blues-By-Leslie-Feinberg.Pdf
Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues
a novel by Leslie Feinberg
20th anniversary author edition
Available at www.lesliefeinberg.net © 1993 and 2014 by Leslie Feinberg Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Feinberg, Leslie. 1949-2014 10th Anniversary Edition Afterword, Excerpts © 2003 by Leslie Stone Butch Blues/20th Anniversary Edition/Leslie Feinberg/ Feinberg. First Self-Published Edition Preface to Chinese Edition © 2003 by Leslie Feinberg. Includes: 10th Anniversary 2003 Edition Afterword, Excerpts; Note to Serbo-Croatian Edition © 2012 by Leslie Feinberg. Preface to 2003 Chinese Edition; Note to 2012 Serbo-Croatian Edition 20th Anniversary Edition Notes from Author, Author Acknowledgements, Author Rights and Requests, Author 1. Trans*—Fiction. Translation Agreement, and Author Biography © 2014 by Leslie 2. Transgender people—Fiction. Feinberg. 3. Butch and femme (Lesbian cultures)—Fiction. 4. Lesbians—Fiction. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) Freedman, Leslie Kahn, Adam Schiff, Kelly Wooten. other than those described in the Author Rights and Requests Statement. Cover Design by Kuan Luo Dedication, Back and Front Cover Photographs by Leslie Feinberg Published by Firebrand Books: 1993. Published by Alyson Books: 2003. Available at www.lesliefeinberg.net:
20th Anniversary Author Edition: 2014. NO COST Read online ISBN: Previously published with ISBN 1-56341-030-3, ISBN- PDF download 10: 156341029X and ISBN-13: 978-1563410291 by Firebrand Mobile device download Books, and ISBN 1-55583-853-7 and ISBN 978-155583-853-9 AT COST by Alyson Books. Print-on-demand 12 pt. & 16 pt. large-print type non-commercial publication.
From 10th Anniversary Edition Stone Butch Blues
“Leslie Feinberg has written a poignant, multilayered “In a world of polarities, where all we’re taught is story involving class, race, religion, politics, and black and white, Stone Butch Blues added to what we gender that touches the hearts and souls of anyone know is really a rainbow. How we choose to live in that has lived outside the purported norms imposed our bodies and our hearts is much more than a Dick- by mainstream society.” —Michael M. Hernandez, transgender writer/activist —Jewelle Gomez, author of Don’t Explain
“Stone Butch Blues is a powerful novel written by a “In this revolutionary novel, Feinberg explodes the founder of the contemporary transgender movement. myth of the binary gender system and the feminist It is also an important historical text documenting notion that butchness is apolitical. The scenes of early the profound shift in how we all came to think about queer society are brought to vivacious life—I laughed, gender at the end of the last century.” I cried, and felt right at home.” —Susan Stryker, executive director of GLBT Historical —Chrystos, author of Fire Power and Fugitive Colors Society “Stone Butch Blues is a unique take on the universal “Reading this book changed my life. The narrator of theme of self-love and identity … written with a Stone Butch Blues both walks achingly alone and tells compelling passion that has its very own sound.” the sweet story of connecting to a society in which —Emanuel Xavier, author of Americano and Christ Like the vast criminality of homophobia, the tenderness and the wildness of love, and the tiny, massive “Stone Butch Blues has probably touched your life even vitalities of friendship, work, and political community. if you haven’t read it yet. It’s a movement classic, Everyone needs to know Stone Butch Blues and pass it one of those books that spilled right out of its around. It’s history out loud.” binding and into the world, changing the landscape —Eileen Myles, author of Cool for You irrevocably.” —Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For “Stone Butch Blues should be required reading in high school and college “The most galvanizing book I’ve encountered about classes across the county. This novel takes its place the alchemical transformations among pride, shame, not only within a long tradition of queer narratives of alienation and opposition, but, in form and content, it also hearkens back to radical proletarian —Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, author of Touching Feeling: U.S. literature from the 1930s. By weaving the story Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity through the narratives of the 1960s and 1970s social movements, Feinberg insistently reminds us that our “Stone Butch Blues is the queer great American novel— individual struggles are always part of a larger fabric it will be read, loved, studied, and denounced for a of resistance. Stone Butch Blues will be read for years to long, long time.” come!” —Holly Hughes, performance artist and author of Clit —Judith Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity Notes: A Sapphic Sampler Dedicated to CeCe McDonald
CeCe McDonald’s tenacious courage and organizing inspired an CeCe McDonald wrote from a prison cell on international united front: against violence targeting oppressed November 16, 2012: youths and women--particularly the war on (trans)women of color, “Trans Day of Remembrance: A Proposal” against the school-to-prison pipeline and racist mass incarceration, white supremacy and transmisogyny; and for the rights of oppressed “We need for our mission to promote racial, social, and sexes, self/gender expressions and sexualities, and the right of the economic justice for trans youth, with freedom to self- oppressed to self-defense.
These excerpts and more information: “[T]o have rights and a voice. To be able to walk in this supportcece.wordpress.com world, not afraid and actually feel like a human being and not a shadow in a corner. grocery store with some friends, all of them young, African “I would have rather been punished for asserting myself American, and LGBTIQ or allied. As they passed a local than become another victim of hatred. bar, the Schooner Tavern, a group of older, white people who were standing outside the bar’s side door began hurling “We need to not only celebrate for Trans Day of racist and transphobic slurs at them, without provocation. Remembrance, but also become self-aware and ready to … When CeCe approached the group and told them that put an end to our community being the focus of violence. her crew would not tolerate hate speech, one of the women Of course it is more than important to recognize and pay homage to our fallen, but we also need to put our feet during which one of the attackers, Dean Schmitz, was fatally down and start being real leaders and making this stand.” stabbed. The only person arrested that night was CeCe. …” CeCe McDonald won her release on January 13, 2014.
Photo made together by CeCe McDonald & Leslie Feinberg during a jail visit in South Minneapolis McDonald’s trial.
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