reminder that leslie feinberg’s literature and activism laid a lot of today’s groundwork and even coined the word ‘transgender’
and that leslie feinberg was a genderqueer butch lesbian with a complicated relationship with gender (and preferred ze/hir pronouns)
don’t let people erase leslie because they don’t know their own damn trans history and refuse to out of pure spite
Don’t forget ze was Jewish
updates on this! leslie didn’t coin ‘transgender’ but ze revolutionized the MEANING of it, in hir books Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue in 1998 and Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman in 1996. the wording in my source was confusing, please reblog this version instead! the person who coined transgender was John F. Oliven! leslie feinberg was just one of the biggest activists in revolutionizing it!
That’s nice. Stop ignoring hir Jewish identity.
you’re right, sorry, i reblogged from you because i meant to bring that up and forGOT thank you! ze was also jewish (i think her character in stone butch blues was too?)
Thank you!
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