Hey folks, can anyone recommend some awesome queer authors or historical figures?
Bonus points if they're trans and ofc it'd be best if they're not a :LIB: ; big fan of Leslie Feinberg for example
Hey folks, can anyone recommend some awesome queer authors or historical figures?
Bonus points if they're trans and ofc it'd be best if they're not a :LIB: ; big fan of Leslie Feinberg for example
I recently came across Susan Stryker's My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix: performing transgender rage and it really resonated with me.
CW: There's some descriptions of really vile transphobia and suicide on the first few pages. The essay is also from 1993, so the terminology is a bit outdated at times, but it's still a powerful text. She basically takes all the TERF rhethoric where we're called freaks and monsters and spits it right back in their faces. Here's a choice quote: