![]() Any person who identifies with any letter in the LGBTQQIAPN+ acronym, or any of its expansions, knows this scene all too well. It’s a story close to the experience of queer people. ![]() His confrontation with us has lasted throughout the train rude under the Hudson River into Jersey. My gaze is steely, fixed on the red-faced, blustering man who is pounding on the closed PATH train car doors. This notion is only intensified, as Feinberg paints a scene for us: So let me just say this on behalf of all cis people: we suck. It’s still obvious to me that trans people do not deserve such invasive questions about their genitals. ![]() I’m not trans, but I am trying my best to be an ally. “Who cares what anybody’s got between their legs?” Feinberg’s first line is preaching to the choir, as Max herself puts it. I had first attempted to read this in the airport, but a seat change interrupted my plans, so I am starting it a little late (three days late), but I’m excited to start this live-blogging journey nevertheless. And I can’t even describe how happy finding a queer book from a queer author made me. I first picked up Drag King Dreams at my university textbook store, who were giving away unneeded books for free. As a butch lesbian and transgender activist, she is empowering solely in her identity, let alone considering what her books do for the queer movement. Drag King Dreams is the second work of Leslie Feinberg, author of Stone Butch Blues. ![]()
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