![]() ![]() ![]() Through a single character’s narrative, I explored myriad refractions of the queer self in the world.Įven though Stone Butch Blues recounts a culture from decades before that has since faded, reemerged, and shifted, reading it still felt like a homecoming. On this journey, I came to Stone Butch Blues and found tucked between its pages another prism of queer experience. From Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room to Preciado’s Testo Junkie, I immersed myself in queer reality. These life changes signaled both an entry into the Jewish world and the beginning of my transition into a more realized genderqueer identity around that time, I started asking to be referred to with they/them/their pronouns.Īs I awakened to the possibilities of a life and community that reflected my internal self, I sought out texts that would illuminate this core. I had recently moved to Oakland, a bastion of radical queerdom, and started a job at Keshet. ![]() Leslie Feinberg had made previous appearances in my life, distant traces of hir legacy filtering through references in other books and news of hir death months prior, but it wasn’t until May/June 2015 that I finally sank into Feinberg’s oeuvre and felt the force of hir most famous book.Īt that time, I was at a precipitous moment in my own life. Two years ago to the month, I read Stone Butch Blues for the first time. ![]()
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