Heritage Lecture Series
Leslie Feinberg
Beyond Pink Or Blue:
The Transgender Movement, Yesterday, Today and the Future
Leslie Feinberg's Official Website
Wikipedia - Leslie Feinberg
The Center for Culture, Gender, and Sexuality is pleased to announce that world-renowned social activist and author Leslie Feinberg will be visiting Sonoma State University on April 26th at 7:30 p.m. in the Cooperage. The event is free to SSU students, faculty and staff, and $5 for general admission at the door.
Leslie Feinberg came of age as a young butch lesbian in the factories and gay bars of Buffalo, N.Y. in the 1960s. Since that time, Feinberg has been a grass roots activist and a journalist. Ze* is known in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movements in the U.S. and countries around the world.
Feinberg is well-known in as an activist who works to help forge a strong bond between the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans(gender) communities. As a trade unionist, anti-racist and socialist, Feinberg also organizes to build strong bonds of unity between these struggles and those of movements in defense of oppressed nationalities, women, disabled, and the working-class movement as a whole.
Feinberg's first novel, Stone Butch Blues (1993), has received a wildly popular response in the United States and has been translated into Chinese, German, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Slovenian and Hebrew. Feinberg's historical work, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul is the first analysis of the historical roots of transgender oppression and Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue (Beacon) contains a compilation of speeches by the author with written portraits by other trans activists. Drag King Dreams, Feinberg's second published novel, was released in March 2006.
Feinberg has toured the country, speaking at Pride rallies and protest marches, and at scores of colleges and universities. Currently Feinberg is a national leader of the Workers World Party, and a managing editor and political journalist of the Workers World newspaper.
* Gender Neutral Pronouns
ze - instead of he or she, hir - instead of him or her, hirself - himself or herself
"Beyond Pink or Blue" is brought to you by Center for Culture, Gender & Sexuality, the SSU Student Union, and Associated Students Productions.
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