Лесли Фейнберг: Трансгендерный активист и писатель

American transgender activist and author (1949–2014)

Leslie Feinberg (September 1, 1949 – November 15, 2014) was an American butch lesbian, transgender activist, communist, and author. Feinberg authored Stone Butch Blues in 1993. writing, notably Stone Butch Blues and 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 was born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in Buffalo, New York in a working class, Jewish family. At fourteen years old, began work at a display sign shop at a local department store. Feinberg eventually dropped out of Bennett High School, though officially received a diploma. 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.

In 2008, Feinberg was diagnosed with Lyme disease. She wrote that the infection first came about in the 1970s, when there was limited knowledge related to such diseases and that felt hesitant to deal with medical professionals for many years due to transgender identity. For this reason, only received treatment later in life. In the 2000s, Feinberg created art and blogged about illnesses with a focus on disability art and class consciousness. Feinberg and Pratt married in New York and Massachusetts in 2011. In the mid and late 1990s they attended Camp Trans together. Feinberg died on November 15, 2014, of complications due to multiple tick borne infections, including "Lyme disease, babeisiosis, and protomyxzoa rheumatica", which had suffered from since the 1970s. Feinberg's last words were reported to be, "Hasten the revolution! Remember me as a revolutionary communist." Feinberg's widow wrote in statement regarding Feinberg's death that Feinberg did not really care which pronouns a person used to address : "She preferred to use the pronouns /zie and /hir for herself, but also said: 'I care which pronoun is used, but people have been respectful to me with the wrong pronoun and disrespectful with the right one. It matters whether someone is using the pronoun as a bigot, or if they are trying to demonstrate respect.