![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to a second novel, Drag King Dreams, Feinberg’s work included the non-fiction books, Transgender Warriors: Making History and Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue as well as two collections of articles. That book won the Lambda Literary Award and the American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Award. In 1993 she released the novel Stone Butch Blues which prompted discussion about the complexity and fluidity of gender. After moving to New York City, she became active in many anti-war, anti-racist, and pro-labor campaigns dedicated to confronting oppression of any sort. She was widely considered the first theorist to advance a Marxist concept of transgender liberation. ![]() While in her early 20s Feinberg became a member of the Workers World Party and later worked as an editor and columnist for the communist organization’s newspaper. Discrimination against transgender people made it impossible for her to get steady work aside from a series of low-wage temp jobs. Eventually Feinberg embarked on a new life where she discovered Buffalo’s gay bars and factories. Mercilessly abused and discriminated against for being gender variant and non-conforming, she quit high school at 14 and shortly thereafter became estranged from her family. ![]() “People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.” ![]()
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