Stone Butch Blues

As Feinberg writes “I wrote it not as an expression of individual “high” art but as a working-class organizer mimeographs a leaflet - a call to action”. I loved this book. It is as much a portrait of Jess (the protagonist), as it is a portrait of working class america, through out the decades. A materialist study of gender, sexuality, and society, and the importance of unionizing, regrouping and organizing.

In a moment of clarity, Jess addressing a crowd says “I don't know what it would take to really change the world. But couldn't we get together and try to figure it out? Couldn't the we be bigger? Isn't there a way we could help fight each other's battles so that we're not always alone?” And that's all I have to say about the dichotomous separatist concept of labels and the destructive powers of gatekeeping that have come with liberalism and the assimilation of some on the back of others.