Pioneer Trans Activist Leslie Feinberg Has Passed Away at 65
LatestLeslie Feinberg, the activist and author of Stone Butch Blues, has passed away after a decades-long battle with tick-borne infections. Hir amazing final words were “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.”
As an activist, Feinberg—who preferred to be addressed by zie/hir pronouns—had a storied career in which zie fought for worker’s rights, transgender rights, lesbian rights, women’s rights, racial equality and more. Feinberg served as an organizer of several labor, anti-war, anti-racism and pro-choice protests. Zie worked as a journalist at the Workers World newspaper and hir most popular book Stone Butch Blues is widely considered a pioneer work in gender studies.