Leslie Feinberg speech at Aswat conference 2007

"Leslie Feinberg, a lesbian transgender and Jewish communist and a managing editor of Workers World, delivered the following solidarity statement to the first public conference of Aswat—​Palestinian Gay Women—​in Haifa on March 28, 2007. Bracketed words, phrases and sentences were delivered in Arabic. The 10th anniversary of comrade Leslie’s death will be marked on Nov. 15."

[I know where I stand: in historic Palestine. So my first words must be in Arabic. Thank you for inviting me here. It is the largest honor in my life. I salute Aswat.]

My first words in English must be why I am here, within the 1948 borders of the Israeli settler state. Why am I here when the colonial occupier set up an apartheid state in the name of Jewish people and co-opts the symbol of Judaism, stitching it into every uniform, flying it from every tank turret?

Why am I here when I remember, every day of my adult life, what happened to the people of Deir Yassin?"

Unfortunately, film material of hir speech has been removed from YT and Insta.

Text: https://www.workers.org/2024/06/79271/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_2IWjelqY&list=PLkMNUXey1GjQ7BoXj8vkADQP4coduchuH

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An excerpt from Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg:

I hurried out to the pond to catch pollywogs in a jar. I leaned on my elbow and looked up close at the little frogs that climbed up on the sun-baked rocks.
“Caw, caw!” A huge black crow circled above me in the air and landed on a rock nearby. We looked at each other in silence.
“Crow, are you a boy or a girl?”
“Caw, caw!”

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Status update: reading Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg because it's about fucking time

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Leslie Feinberg speech at Aswat conference 2007

"Leslie Feinberg, a lesbian transgender and Jewish communist and a managing editor of Workers World, delivered the following solidarity statement to the first public conference of Aswat—​Palestinian Gay Women—​in Haifa on March 28, 2007. Bracketed words, phrases and sentences were delivered in Arabic. The 10th anniversary of comrade Leslie’s death will be marked on Nov. 15."

[I know where I stand: in historic Palestine. So my first words must be in Arabic. Thank you for inviting me here. It is the largest honor in my life. I salute Aswat.]

My first words in English must be why I am here, within the 1948 borders of the Israeli settler state. Why am I here when the colonial occupier set up an apartheid state in the name of Jewish people and co-opts the symbol of Judaism, stitching it into every uniform, flying it from every tank turret?

Why am I here when I remember, every day of my adult life, what happened to the people of Deir Yassin? 1/n

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuA_ifp1jLY

#SolidarityPalestine #Palestine #BoycottIsrael #LeslieFeinberg #Aswat @palestine @israel #QueersForPalestine #LGBTQplus #Lebanon #StoneButchBlues

Please, do read #LeslieFeinberg.
#StoneButchBlues is available for free on Feinberg's website along some of zir other writings.

https://tenforward.social/@switch/112574950800452413

so if you’re a baby #trans or a younger trans person you might want to get yourself a copy of #StoneButchBlues which is free for all from https://www.lesliefeinberg.net

when our adversaries lie
and say we’re a novelty of this time
this great piece of lit
proves they’re full of shit
because this great book has been
out since before they first breathed in.