Fri. June 2 at 8 pm
Come see author and activist Leslie Feinberg in person at Trinity Episcopal Church, 371 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo. It’s part of the Ways in Between Gender series presented by Hallwalls on the first Fridays, February through June 2006.
“The dreary dialectic of strugglenrace, gender, class, nationalismnis here transformed through the lively dialogue of real people struggling in a post-9/11 New York City into a great galloping story. If the workers of the world read Leslie Feinberg’s book, they just might unite!” – Kate Clinton
Leslie will read from her latest book Drag King Dreams, a novel set in contemporary Manhattan that follows the political reawakening of protagonist Max Rabinowitz, a bouncer in an East Village drag club. Leslie Feinbergna long-time, internationally known activist and award-winning authorncame of age as a young butch lesbian in the factories and gay bars of Buffalo, NY in the 1960s. Hir works include Stone Butch Blues, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman and Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue.
Feinberg’s long-running weekly series “Lavender & Red” can be read online at www.workers.org. Author-signed copies Feinbergis of newest novel, Drag King Dreams, are available at leftbooks.com. (Copies of the novel will be available for purchase at the reading on June 2.)
Feinberg is a political journalist, a managing editor of Workers World newspaper, and a national steering committee member of the LGBT Caucus of the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981. Ze is a founder of Rainbow Flags for Mumia and a national organizer for the International Action Center. Feinbergis home page in cyberspace is www.transgenderwarrior.org. This event is co-sponsored by Gender InstitutenIREWG, University at Buffalo; Pride Buffalo; Spectrum Transgender Group; the Rainbow Elders; and by many generous individual donations.