![]() ![]() The stories in my book S/HE are about these complexities in our daily life-and many of them are also love tributes to Leslie. As my life and Leslie’s flowed together, I gained immeasurably in my understanding of that struggle-in my understanding of how we live all our sexualities, sex identities, and gender expressions. ![]() My adult life has been an exhilarating struggle to understand how to resist, militantly, the oppressive categories that the ruling status quo places on us, and how to live, triumphantly, the identities and complexities that we feel to be true for ourselves. ![]() I fell in love with Leslie because of hir voice, hir vision, and hir revolutionary optimism. In 1992 I met Leslie at hir slideshow/lecture in Washington, D.C., where s/he spoke on the historical basis for unity among people who experience different oppressions-and where s/he read, looking up at me, from hir classic "Letter to a Fifties Femme." Now, seven years later, s/he is my "one and only," my beloved lesbian husband. "I share my home and life with Leslie Feinberg, the novelist, historian, and transgender activist. Feinberg's partner was the prominent lesbian poet-activist Minnie Bruce Pratt. Feinberg's first novel Stone Butch Blues is widely considered a groundbreaking work about gender. ![]() Elisa_rolle Leslie Feinberg (Septem– November 15, 2014) was a transgender lesbian and communist activist, speaker, and author. ![]()
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