![]() ![]() ![]() They also find comfort in the factories and unions working alongside other butches, despite the harshness and bigotry that exists within the patriarchal hierarchy that dooms them to fail. Leaving high school before graduation, Jess finds their people in the dyke bars of Niagara Falls and New York City, exploring the roles of butch/femme and experiencing police brutality for wearing men’s clothes. Stone Butch Blues follows protagonist, Jess Goldberg, a gender nonconforming youthwhose parents are less than loving, and whose peers are largely hateful, some even violent and sexually abusive. ![]() The novel, first published by the feminist small press Firebrand Books 25 years ago, won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction in 1993, but has since been seen as a seminal trans text, with Feinberg’s own identity “cross the cultural boundaries of gender,” the author and activist coming to self-identify as both a lesbian and trans. Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues is one of the most influential pieces of literature in the queer canon, especially for lesbian and biwomen and trans people who found themselves included in the semi-autobiographical story of a gender non-conforming person moving through the world as a working class “he-she” in upstate New York in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. ![]()
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