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EDUCATIONTransgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come by Leslie Feinberg

Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg
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Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg

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2/4/2021 Update: In light of chucklefuck TERF shit with Giggle, I am once again demanding the rest of you liberals educate yourselves on trans issues with Trans Liberation as a starting point. And you better believe more literature on minority struggle is in the pipelines. We're doing some reading this month, libs. Get ready.


AUDIOBOOKS HAVE BEEN RECORDED FOR ALL 8 CHAPTERS. YOU LITERALLY HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR LIBERALISM.

https://hexbear.net/post/48476

Follow that link and you'll find a free download of the book in pdf and comrade @EugeneDebs's epub, comrade @futomes' audiobooks for all eight chapters, and notes and discussions from the book (and don't you dare just read the fucking notes you god damn liberals, read the fucking book or listen to the audiobook).

I spent an entire weekend night scanning the whole damn book so y'all could educate yourselves on the fucking struggles we've been screaming about for the past six months and hardly any of you damn cissie libs participated. Had you participated you'd probably have a better understanding of the struggles we face and we probably wouldn't be in this situation where trans people are heading for this damn hills because you're all shit libs driving us away.

Fucking read it or listen to the audiobooks and I won't ask again. It's all free. The book is only 147 pages - that's 7 pages per night for exactly 3 weeks. I wipe my fucking ass with 7 pages, that's nothing. People put genuine effort into this to ensure you could educate yourselves and you have no reason not to outside of fucking liberalism.

It reads quick. Drop whatever the fuck you're reading and read this. Now. :leslie-shining:

~~Edit: I'll be throwing up a discussion thread at some point in the next week or so for you damn shitlibs to comment on with things you find meaningful so I'll know if you actually gave a shit. I swear to God I better see y'all in the comments.~~

If you're having trouble downloading, there are links in this comment by u/hexaflexagonbear that seem to work.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Just finished reading this. Like others have said a lot of the Marxist stuff won’t be anything new to anyone on this site, but as a cishet man the “portraits” of the different lgbt+ perspectives really stuck out to me. I could read hundreds of pages of different voices talking about their lives and the oppression they faced. They were inspiring and heartbreaking and really helped me empathize better with the struggles lgbtq+ people deal with. Wish there were more of them in the book.

Also the chapter on intersex people really fucked me up and pissed me off. I wasn’t aware of how common genital mutilation was performed on newborns, wtf.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

wasnt aware of how common genital mutilation was performed on newborns

stares at circumcision rates

:side-eye-1: :side-eye-2:

extremely common

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

I meant with regards to intersex "correction" surgery. I think everyone knows how common circumcision is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Gender outlaws by Bornstein would give you more first hand accounts of trans lives. It's written in anthology style great book. Lots of love for our intersex comrades, get unconsented surgery as a baby and then cant get reparative surgery later as an adult unless they pay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Thank you for the recommendation, it’s on my reading list now.

Yeah, I can’t imagine how extra brutal that is in a country where you pay for healthcare. Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

chapter on intersex people really fucked me up

yeah I fuckin cried a bit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Reading it now, it's really beautifully written.

If for any reason you're pushing back on this or putting it off, fucking don't. Right from the book:

These questions can only be answered when we begin to organize together, ready to struggle on each other’s behalf. Understanding each other will compel us as honest, caring people to fight each other’s oppression as though it was our own.

Fuckin' right :trans-hammer-sickle:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

B A S E D T A K E

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I cleaned up and OCR'd your pdf :)

Now it prints much prettier and you can select/highlight text! No excuses about it coming out all grey or not being able to highlight! And as a bonus, the file size is now only 2 MB.

It will be here in libgen once it's approved: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5EF98483F41CC783D0E48EFF635EBA3E

Until then you can download it from https://partidopirata.com.ar/~unperson/trans_liberation.pdf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Thank you so much!! 😍😍😍😍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

If you’re on the fence about reading this, you shouldn’t be! It’s an easy read and there’s literally no excuse not to. I read it while working 6 days a week at a plant. If my blue-collar ass can do it, so can you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

YOOOOOOOO! BASED ALERT!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

On the one hand I care about my trans comrades, on the other hand reading is for nerds. I guess I'll be a nerd this one time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Thanks for not being a :LIB:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

counterpoint: reading is based and good, video games are for nerds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

reading is based and good

You better be reading this book. So help me god.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

was about to start reading settlers but I'll read this first. I uploaded the pdf for everyone and I'll start it tomorrow on my day off o7 thanks for the suggestion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Both are based as fuck. You'll tear through this and be off to another banger in no time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I’m about a third into it and it’s great. It’s mostly a compilation of speeches Leslie made at different events mixed with some personal background on the people that organised said events. It’s a quick and engaging read. It gives a wonderful feel for the beautiful mosaic that is human identity and the struggle that is being waged for people’s liberty of expression. As a cis manbrodude I’m learning a ton. Would recommend to literally everyone.

:heart-sickle:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Wow, this is a beautiful summary of the book!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Thanks! One does what one can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

I strongly prefer paper copies so I am picking this up from my school's library this afternoon 😎 also my boyfriend said he'll read it too

:leslie-shining:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

"However, it is necessary to accept that there are tens of thousands of people in this country—perhaps millions — who want to express both a masculine and a feminine side — and many, many of those people are heterosexual."

That's such a goddamn good quote, its from Chapter 2. I would describe myself as a cishet man, and have never had much interest in drag, but sometimes I want to wear a dress. I look at women wearing dresses and I'm like, "damn, they look great in that, why are they for women only?". I'd like to be able to express my feminine side like that - although I don't know if it should even be described as feminine. I want to wear something that has been arbitrarily relegated to women. Does that make jeans masculine? Were the second-wave feminists who broke gender norms by wearing them expressing their masculinity or simply wearing something they liked?

This book is very good, its given me a lot to think about. Need to keep reading