Leslie Feinberg, very early transgender spokesman, has died due to infections.
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[quote][img]http://www.advocate.com/sites/advocate.com/files/imagecache/stories/small_selfportrait_sunX400.jpg[/img]Leslie Feinberg, who identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist, died on November 15. She succumbed to complications from multiple tick-borne co-infections, including Lyme disease, babeisiosis, and protomyxzoa rheumatica, after decades of illness.She died at home in Syracuse, NY, with her partner and spouse of 22 years, Minnie Bruce Pratt, at her side. Her last words were: “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.”
Feinberg was the first theorist to advance a Marxist concept of “transgender liberation,” and her work impacted popular culture, academic research, and political organizing.
Her historical and theoretical writing has been widely anthologized and taught in the U.S. and international academic circles. Her impact on mass culture was primarily through her 1993 first novel, [I]Stone Butch Blues[/I], widely considered in and outside the U.S. as a groundbreaking work about the complexities of gender. Sold by the hundreds of thousands of copies and also passed from hand-to-hand inside prisons, the novel has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian, Slovenian, Turkish, and Hebrew (with her earnings from that edition going to ASWAT Palestinian Gay Women).[/quote]
[url]http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/books/2014/11/17/transgender-pioneer-leslie-feinberg-stone-butch-blues-has-died[/url]
Here's a little part from wikipedia
[quote]Feinberg described hirself as a "white, working class, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_Jewish_culture"]secular Jewish[/URL], transgender lesbian." Feinberg preferred the use of "[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neutral_pronouns#Preferred_pronouns"]ze/hir[/URL]" pronouns.[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Feinberg#cite_note-7"][7][/URL][/SUP] Feinberg's last words were reported to be "Remember me as a revolutionary communist."[/quote]
[quote]Feinberg's 1993 first novel, [I][I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Butch_Blues"]Stone Butch Blues[/URL], won the [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_Literary_Award"]Lambda Literary Award[/URL][I][I] and the 1994 [I]American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Award. The work is not an autobiography.[/quote]
Kind of interesting to have kind of opened up that discussion well before society ever really thought about it. [/I][/I][/I][/I][/I][/I]
[quote]anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist[/quote]
Who will manage her Tumblr now
[quote]who identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist[/quote]
That's a lot of identities
[QUOTE=proboardslol;46515531]Who will manage her Tumblr now[/QUOTE]
the gay trans jewish proletariat
[quote]Her last words were: “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.”[/quote]
also nice title OP way to shit on her memory
[QUOTE='[sluggo];46515539']That's a lot of identities[/QUOTE]
Nope. Just one identity with many awesome facets.
[QUOTE='[sluggo];46515539']That's a lot of identities[/QUOTE]
Still not as silly as the white people who like to say they're 38% german, 2% icelander, 20% irish, 5% native american, 15% norwegien, etc etc
[QUOTE=proboardslol;46515606]also nice title OP way to shit on her memory[/QUOTE]
fuck
can a mod edit in revolutionary communist?
[QUOTE=Levithan;46515621]Still not as silly as the white people who like to say they're 38% german, 2% icelander, 20% irish, 5% native american, 15% norwegien, etc etc[/QUOTE]
I haven't really heard any be that specific, but that's just my experience.
[QUOTE=Levithan;46515621]Still not as silly as the white people who like to say they're 38% german, 2% icelander, 20% irish, 5% native american, 15% norwegien, etc etc[/QUOTE]
I always say "some kind of white" and "I don't know my family got here like 400 year ago" or "I'm not filling out your goddamned census and you can keep your obamacare"
[QUOTE=Levithan;46515621]Still not as silly as the white people who like to say they're 38% german, 2% icelander, 20% irish, 5% native american, 15% norwegien, etc etc[/QUOTE]
1/32nd Cherokee is my favourite.
A walking stereotype. Well, was.
This thread is off to a great start.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;46515837]This thread is off to a great start.[/QUOTE]
It actually is.
or. well, relative to what it could be.
[QUOTE=Levithan;46515621]Still not as silly as the white people who like to say they're 38% german, 2% icelander, 20% irish, 5% native american, 15% norwegien, etc etc[/QUOTE]
That really only happens in the US. We're a country built on immigrants so while everyone might look outwardly similar we all have very different backgrounds and we tend to embrace our heritage and cultural identity. It's easy to forget just how young our country is, but it's cool how we can trace back our roots and where we came from clearly since it wasn't so long ago, relatively speaking. I don't think that's silly at all.
I sure do love the mocking tone I see for the death of a rights activist. :v:
[quote]"Remember me as a revolutionary communist."[/quote]
[quote]'Forward, comrades!' he whispered. 'Forward in the name of the Rebellion. Long live Animal Farm! Long live Comrade Napoleon! Napoleon is always right.' Those were his very last words, comrades.'[/quote]
[QUOTE=Apollo;46515934]That really only happens in the US. We're a country built on immigrants so while everyone might look outwardly similar we all have very different backgrounds and we tend to embrace our heritage and cultural identity. It's easy to forget just how young our country is, but it's cool how we can trace back our roots and where we came from clearly since it wasn't so long ago, relatively speaking. I don't think that's silly at all.[/QUOTE]
Look, I get it's cool knowing where you're from and stuff, but if you're 2% anything it's pretty much negligible, everyone is like 2% something.
I'm confused, was ze actually a man or a woman? Hir wikipedia page literally says nothing about xit.
[QUOTE=Jebus;46517262]I'm confused, was ze actually a man or a woman? Hir wikipedia page literally says nothing about xit.[/QUOTE]
The article says she preferred the gender pronouns Ze / Hir
Ze (or zie or sie) and hir[44] Ze laughed I called hir Hir eyes gleam That is hirs Ze likes hirself
44 references
Katherine Vandam Having been assigned male at birth and then receiving sex reassignment surgery in 1986, Bornstein says, "I don't call myself a woman, and I know I'm not a man".
So something like gender neutral or bigender. Physiologically male at birth I believe.
I identify as bigender myself :smile:
[QUOTE=Prolifica;46517406]The article says she preferred the gender pronouns Ze / Hir
Ze (or zie or sie) and hir[44] Ze laughed I called hir Hir eyes gleam That is hirs Ze likes hirself
44 references
Katherine Vandam Having been assigned male at birth and then receiving sex reassignment surgery in 1986, Bornstein says, "I don't call myself a woman, and I know I'm not a man".
So something like gender neutral or bigender. Physiologically male at birth I believe.
I identify as bigender myself :smile:[/QUOTE]
Yeah I read Leslie's wiki page and that's all it told me basically
[QUOTE=Prolifica;46517406]The article says she preferred the gender pronouns Ze / Hir
Ze (or zie or sie) and hir[44] Ze laughed I called hir Hir eyes gleam That is hirs Ze likes hirself
44 references
Katherine Vandam Having been assigned male at birth and then receiving sex reassignment surgery in 1986, Bornstein says, "I don't call myself a woman, and I know I'm not a man".
So something like gender neutral or bigender. Physiologically male at birth I believe.
I identify as bigender myself :smile:[/QUOTE]
You know, when "they" doesn't make you feel special enough.
[QUOTE=Deng;46515667]1/32nd Cherokee is my favourite.[/QUOTE]
What's great is a lot of people don't seem to get that's a really old Southern euphemism for "I have a black (or white, if the person saying it is black) ancestor".
[QUOTE=LegndNikko;46517473]You know, when "they" doesn't make you feel special enough.[/QUOTE]
You know, when you're so boring a person you have to actually give a fuck about what weird pronouns people use as if its gonna effect you in any way
I'm more curious about the cause of death, multiple tick born illnesses? How do you get that lucky to get that many ticks
Decades of illness caused by ticks. Damn nature, you scary.
I like to identify as a human. Just as much as I'd consider this person a human. And everyone else in the world.
[QUOTE=Solomon;46516571]I sure do love the mocking tone I see for the death of a rights activist. :v:[/QUOTE]
It's just funny to see something so often used in parody in a serious light.
[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;46517906]It's just funny to see something so often used in parody in a serious light.[/QUOTE]
When you actually look at what it says though the only really absurd part is "revolutionary communist", other than that it pretty much just reads like the first sentence of a Wikipedia article.
Damn, what is it with people and getting all uppity over what people identify themselves as? All I see is unnecessary malice. Besides the really obnoxious ones (like the plant and otherkin ones), what's the obsession with poking fun at pronouns? All this complaining makes you look more concerned about pronouns than the people who actually identify as them. That's my observation.
It says she died from multiple tick related co-infections which she apparently contracted in early 1970s but diagnosed in 2008?
And then there is a bit about:
"She attributed her catastrophic health crisis to “bigotry, prejudice and lack of science”—active prejudice toward her transgender identity that made access to health care exceedingly difficult, and lack of science in limits placed by mainstream medical authorities on information, treatment, and research about Lyme and its co-infections. She blogged online about these issues in “Casualty of an Undeclared War.” "
I don't really get that whole spiel about limits placed on Lyme disease research by mainstream medical authorities. Why is this a conspiracy? Or was she a "chronic Lyme disease" sufferer as well? Or is there really a conspiracy against everything under the sun?
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