Transgender Pioneer and Stone Butch Blues Author Leslie Feinberg Has Died

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Leslie Feinberg, who identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist, died on November 15. She succumbed to complications from multiple tick-borne co-infections, including Lyme disease, babeisiosis, and protomyxzoa rheumatica, after decades of illness.

She died at home in Syracuse, NY, with her partner and spouse of 22 years, Minnie Bruce Pratt, at her side. Her last words were: “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.”

Feinberg was the first theorist to advance a Marxist concept of “transgender liberation,” and her work impacted popular culture, academic research, and political organizing.

NOTE FROM WI BOPM: Leslie Feinberg was a strong supporter of the progressive and revolutionary forces in Wisconsin for decades speaking and participating at events in Milwaukee and elsewhere. Leslie was a devout member of the National Writers Union, UAW and as such supported worker’s struggles internationally such as the 2011 people’s occupation of the state capitol in Madison. Leslie was also a staunch defender of the Black Freedom Movement in all its forms of resistance against the capitalist-imperialist system. And of course Leslie upheld the banner of socialism internationally. We send our condolences to her partner Minnie Bruce Pratt and her comrades in Workers World Party and her numerous comrades and friends worldwide in the LGBTQ diaspora and in the occupied territories especially Palestine. Her numerous contributions to the people’s class struggle will live forever!  Long live the Rainbow! Leslie Feinberg presente!