{"id":1450,"date":"2014-11-21T14:16:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T20:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2014-11-21T14:16:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T20:16:11","slug":"in-memoriam-activist-and-transgender-pioneer-leslie-feinberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1450","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Activist and transgender pioneer Leslie Feinberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leslie Feinberg passed away on November 15th. Feinberg?was self-described?(per Advocate.com) as a &#8221; an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist.&#8221; Feinberg?is survived by her partner of 22 years, Minnie Bruce Pratt.<\/p>\n<p>Feinberg&#8217;s 1993 first novel, <i><a title=\"Stone Butch Blues\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stone_Butch_Blues\">Stone Butch Blues<\/a>?<\/i>was a groundbreaking work on the complexity of gender that?won the <a title=\"Lambda Literary Award\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lambda_Literary_Award\">Lambda Literary Award<\/a> and the 1994?Stonewall Award for Literature.?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/arts-entertainment\/books\/2014\/11\/17\/transgender-pioneer-leslie-feinberg-stone-butch-blues-has-died\">For more on Feinberg&#8217;s life and work, see the obituary on Advocate.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Leslie Feinberg passed away on November 15th. Feinberg?was self-described?(per Advocate.com) as a &#8221; an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist.&#8221; Feinberg?is survived by her partner of 22 years, Minnie Bruce Pratt. Feinberg&#8217;s 1993 first novel, Stone Butch Blues?was a groundbreaking work on the complexity of gender that?won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,64,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-in-memoriam","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}