Welcome to the second week of reading Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg!
If you’re just getting started, here’s a link to the thread for Chapter 1: https://hexbear.net/post/5178006?scrollToComments=false
We’re only doing one chapter per week and the discussion threads will be left open, so latecomers are still very much welcome to join if interested.
Also, as I mentioned last week. This isn’t just a book for trans people! Cis comrades would get a lot out of this reading/discussion as well, so don’t feel intimidated if you’re not trans and/or new to these topics.
As with last week’s thread, 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 2: Allow Me to Introduce Myself.
CWs: Discussion of transphobia.
This chapter covers a speech Feinberg gave at the 9th annual Texas “T” Party in Richardson, TX, as well as a (very heartwarming imo) “Portrait” section where Linda and Cynthia Phillips (seen in the thumbnail) discuss their relationship and life experience.
I’ll ping whoever has been participating so far, but please let me know if you’d like to be added (or removed).
Feel free to let me know if you have any feedback also. Thanks!
I read up to here last week, I’ve read this section before so it didn’t make as much of an impact on me, but one thing I remember is where Les talks about how genderqueer people expand the amount of people you can be. Like it’s so obvious to say “there are gender norms that you can live outside of, you can be who you want”.
I don’t know if I have a point, I’m very tired just after work rn so maybe I’ll have something more indepth to say in the morning.