Welcome to the first week of reading Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg!
Each week we'll read one chapter and discuss it in the comments. There are 8 chapters, and each chapter isn't too long, so this will be relatively light reading for most of you.
Also, THIS BOOK ISN'T JUST FOR TRANS PEOPLE. Obviously the book discusses trans issues, but as I've said before, it covers discussion on gender topics that would be relevant to basically everyone. So I highly encourage you to join if you're interested, regardless of whether you're trans or not.
To get started, here is a list of resources taken from the previous reading group session:
pdf download
epub download - Huge shout out to comrade @EugeneDebs for putting this together. I realized I didn't credit them in either post but here it is. I appreciate your efforts. ❤️
chapter 1 audiobook - Huge shout out to comrade @futomes for recording these. No words can truly express my appreciation for this. Thank you so much. ❤️
chapter 2 audiobook
chapter 3 audiobook
chapter 4 audiobook
chapter 5 audiobook
chapter 6 audiobook
chapter 7 audiobook
chapter 8 audiobook
Also here's another PDF download link and the whole book on ProleWiki.
In this thread we'll be discussing Chapter 1: We Are All Works in Progress.
CWs: Discussion of transphobia, abuse, SA. I should also mention since this came out in 1998, some of the language used might feel a little dated (specific language used is also a good topic of discussion imo).
I'll also ping a discussion list each week. Since this is the first week, the ping list will only include the few who've mentioned they're interested, but please let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed).
This is my first time doing something like this, so let me know if you have any feedback for me. Thanks!
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That was a half-joking comment but only half since fighting to change what a gender as a class is legally or politically allowed to do is part of expanding individual freedom of expression, I think! Perhaps Feinberg would agree too since zie places trans liberation as a new frontier or continuation of the fight for the emancipation of women.
Ah ok, that makes sense and I definitely see those things as intertwined.
Or approaching this from a slightly different angle: if we are to be inclusive and regard any kind of gender deconstruction as being/becoming transgender, those women who said "we deserve to be educated and vote and work and dress how we like despite the social construct" very much qualify to be included.