2/4/2021 Update: In light of chucklefuck TERF shit with Giggle, I am once again demanding the rest of you liberals educate yourselves on trans issues with Trans Liberation as a starting point. And you better believe more literature on minority struggle is in the pipelines. We're doing some reading this month, libs. Get ready.
AUDIOBOOKS HAVE BEEN RECORDED FOR ALL 8 CHAPTERS. YOU LITERALLY HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR LIBERALISM.
https://hexbear.net/post/48476
Follow that link and you'll find a free download of the book in pdf and comrade @EugeneDebs's epub, comrade @futomes' audiobooks for all eight chapters, and notes and discussions from the book (and don't you dare just read the fucking notes you god damn liberals, read the fucking book or listen to the audiobook).
I spent an entire weekend night scanning the whole damn book so y'all could educate yourselves on the fucking struggles we've been screaming about for the past six months and hardly any of you damn cissie libs participated. Had you participated you'd probably have a better understanding of the struggles we face and we probably wouldn't be in this situation where trans people are heading for this damn hills because you're all shit libs driving us away.
Fucking read it or listen to the audiobooks and I won't ask again. It's all free. The book is only 147 pages - that's 7 pages per night for exactly 3 weeks. I wipe my fucking ass with 7 pages, that's nothing. People put genuine effort into this to ensure you could educate yourselves and you have no reason not to outside of fucking liberalism.
It reads quick. Drop whatever the fuck you're reading and read this. Now. :leslie-shining:
Edit: I'll be throwing up a discussion thread at some point in the next week or so for you damn shitlibs to comment on with things you find meaningful so I'll know if you actually gave a shit. I swear to God I better see y'all in the comments.
If you're having trouble downloading, there are links in this comment by u/hexaflexagonbear that seem to work.
On the one hand I care about my trans comrades, on the other hand reading is for nerds. I guess I'll be a nerd this one time.
If you’re on the fence about reading this, you shouldn’t be! It’s an easy read and there’s literally no excuse not to. I read it while working 6 days a week at a plant. If my blue-collar ass can do it, so can you!
Reading it now, it's really beautifully written.
If for any reason you're pushing back on this or putting it off, fucking don't. Right from the book:
These questions can only be answered when we begin to organize together, ready to struggle on each other’s behalf. Understanding each other will compel us as honest, caring people to fight each other’s oppression as though it was our own.
Fuckin' right :trans-hammer-sickle:
I’m about a third into it and it’s great. It’s mostly a compilation of speeches Leslie made at different events mixed with some personal background on the people that organised said events. It’s a quick and engaging read. It gives a wonderful feel for the beautiful mosaic that is human identity and the struggle that is being waged for people’s liberty of expression. As a cis manbrodude I’m learning a ton. Would recommend to literally everyone.
:heart-sickle:
Just finished reading this. Like others have said a lot of the Marxist stuff won’t be anything new to anyone on this site, but as a cishet man the “portraits” of the different lgbt+ perspectives really stuck out to me. I could read hundreds of pages of different voices talking about their lives and the oppression they faced. They were inspiring and heartbreaking and really helped me empathize better with the struggles lgbtq+ people deal with. Wish there were more of them in the book.
Also the chapter on intersex people really fucked me up and pissed me off. I wasn’t aware of how common genital mutilation was performed on newborns, wtf.
I cleaned up and OCR'd your pdf :)
Now it prints much prettier and you can select/highlight text! No excuses about it coming out all grey or not being able to highlight! And as a bonus, the file size is now only 2 MB.
It will be here in libgen once it's approved: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5EF98483F41CC783D0E48EFF635EBA3E
Until then you can download it from https://partidopirata.com.ar/~unperson/trans_liberation.pdf
I strongly prefer paper copies so I am picking this up from my school's library this afternoon 😎 also my boyfriend said he'll read it too
:leslie-shining:
"No one who has pitched in to build and defend women’s and lesbian, gay, bi liberation is a “traitor” because of who they love, or because they have transitioned from female to male."
TERF island BTFO.
Just finished the first two chapters. It's put my mind in a bit of a pretzel, but I just wanted to put down a couple of things I was rolling around in my head while reading:
a) societal expectations of gender are overbearing. I never really thought on how much documentation requires you to tick the M or F boxes for no apparant reason.
b) I never really thought on the concept of bi-gender and how people can have multitude and variety of gender expressions in the same person.
c) I was born way after Stonewall, and I think it's only by coming into leftist, socialist and communist spaces that I've realized the importance of solidarity in combatting oppression against LGBT+ people, and how radical the riot was both on the levels of individual courage and collective expression.
d) Jesus Christ, that shit-eating doctor.
Thank you for suggesting this. I always appreciate being shown ways i can better support my trans comrades. I used to see the Leslie Feinberg threads and not know whether I should engage, as someone who is (at least mostly) cis, but i will always listen when shown ways to be more supportive and caring.
