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Leslie Feinberg

レズリー・ファインバーグ

Rezurī Fainbāgu

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1949-09-01 (Kansas City, Missouri)
死没
2014-11-15 (Syracuse, New York) 65歳
国籍
American
言語
English
宗教
Judaism (secular) 洗礼名: None
居住地歴
Kansas City, Missouri (birth) → Buffalo, New York → New York City → Syracuse, New York

経歴

職業
Author, Activist, Journalist
活動期間
1970年〜2014年
所属
Workers World Party
所属団体
Workers World Party

学歴

Bennett High School
学位: Diploma
国: United States
Dropped out but officially received a diploma

受賞歴

Lambda Literary Award
1994
対象作品: Stone Butch Blues
主催: Lambda Literary Foundation
結果: Winner
Stonewall Book Award
1994
対象作品: Stone Butch Blues
主催: American Library Association
結果: Winner
Honorary Doctorate
主催: Starr King School for the Ministry
結果: Winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Stone Butch Blues

1993年 Novel

A story of a butch lesbian's life in 1950s-1960s Buffalo.

Gender identityClass struggleLGBTQ rights

Transgender Warriors

1996年 Nonfiction

Popular history of transgender from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman.

Transgender historyGender studies

Drag King Dreams

2006年 Novel

Novel about a drag king's life.

Gender expressionPolitics

全著作

  • Journal of a Transsexual (1980)
  • Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come (1992)
  • Stone Butch Blues (1993)
  • Transgender Warriors (1996)
  • Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue (1999)
  • Drag King Dreams (2006)
  • Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba (2009)

作風・主題

文体
Pioneering transgender literatureStrong class consciousnessPopular history approach
頻出モチーフ
Gender fluidityRevolutionCommunismWorking class

健康

  • Lyme disease
    1970年代から2014年
    Complications led to death in 2014; diagnosed in 2008 after long hesitation due to trans identity
  • Babesiosis
    1970年代以降
    Co-infection with Lyme disease
  • Protomxyzoa rheumatica
    1970年代以降
    Co-infection contributing to death

評価・遺産

Laid groundwork for transgender terminology and awareness, instrumental in mainstreaming gender studies; pioneer in LGBTQ history.

資料所蔵先

  • Leslie Feinberg Official Website (archived)

大衆文化への影響

  • Inducted as one of inaugural 50 pioneers on National LGBTQ Wall of Honor at Stonewall Inn in 2019

引用

  • Hasten the revolution! Remember me as a revolutionary communist.
    出典: Last words (2014年)
  • I am female-bodied, I am a butch lesbian, a transgender lesbian—referring to me as 'she/her' is appropriate...
    出典: 2006 interview (2006年)

豆知識

  • Self-described as 'an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist.'
  • Preferred gender-neutral pronouns like 'ze/hir' in some contexts
  • Strong supporter of Palestinian liberation