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"Oh god, you’re listening to Patsy Cline again? You’re so emo."

- My cat, Scout, when she walked into my room today (via space-ndn)

Leslie Feinberg: 'new Stone Butch Blues edition May Day 2013' (mic check, please)

thatsucia:

leslie-feinberg:

STONE BUTCH BLUES—OFFICIALLY OUT OF PRINT 

I am receiving many messages every day from readers, teachers, bookstore owners, publishers and translators asking me: 

Where can copies of Stone Butch Blues be ordered, or permissions be gotten for reprint rights, translation agreements, etc.?

I can’t write back. I am fighting for health. And I am ordered to appear in the court of the 1% in Minneapolis on Monday, Feb. 4, and be prepared to stand trial for my June 4 action in solidarity with CeCe McDonald.

Please help pass this information along:

20th-ANNIVERSARY AUTHOR’S EDITION
COMING MAY DAY 2013
FREE ONLINE / AT-COST PRINT

I have taken Stone Butch Blues off the capitalist market. 

With the help of a small, wonderful team of people, I am preparing to post the no-profit 20th-anniversary author’s edition of Stone Butch Blues on May Day 2013, at lesliefeinberg.net

The anniversary publication will be a no-cost, accessible online read, with free e-edition downloads to multiple devices, and a free pdf download from the website.

This edition will include a new author’s introduction and a dedication to free CeCe McDonald. (supportcece@wordpress.com) 

The digital edition will also include a free access slide show, “This is what solidarity looks like.” For more information:http://www.workers.org/2012/10/06/this-is-what-solidarity-looks-like/

AT-COST PRINT EDITIONS,
INCLUDING LARGE-PRINT 

Print-on-demand copies of the 20th-anniversary edition of Stone Butch Blues will be available—at-cost, not a penny more—at the same site: lesliefeinberg.net

A large-type, easy-read edition will be available for online order at cost, as well. 

TEACHERS

Stone Butch Blues is out of print for Spring 2013. 

The novel will be back in print in May 2013, in at-cost print editions and free online read/download read/pdf for your students. 

PERMISSIONS, 
TRANSLATIONS

Look for information about permissions, non-profit translation agreements, and author requests on May Day 2013 at lesliefeinberg.net.

I am unable to correspond with individuals about commercial projects and contracts—new or expiring—for any new commercial print, digital publication or adaptation in any media. 

At this time, I am also unable to respond to email requests from translators offering to donate their labor. I plan to host translations on the lesliefeinberg.net website. Look for a May Day 2013 announcement.

I thank the translators who have contributed their labor to editions in languages including: Chinese, Turkish, Slovenian, Serbian, Greek, Italian, German, Dutch, Hebrew (proceeds to Palestinian group Aswat). 

I’M STICKING WITH THE UNION

The novel is not represented by a literary agency. I hold the author copyright—by law and by labor—to Stone Butch Blues. I’ve never signed away any digital rights. 

I’m a member of the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981. And I’m a member of Pride At Work, a constituency group of the AFL-CIO. 

I’m sticking with the union!

National Writers Union Digital Bill of Rights
www.nwubook.org/DBOR.pdf

You are an amazing person. Thank you.

Fonseca del Sur: okay! so for one of my future going down (south) columns for...

fonseca-del-sur:

okay! so for one of my future going down (south) columns for autostraddle, i’m thinking about featuring between 10-15 lgbtqia/queer-identified southerners instead of writing yet another essay.

my definition of what it means to be southern and queer is so uniquely mine, and try as i might to…

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Jam!

Jam!

(Source: oxolaterre)

gaysagainstgaga: The Trevor Project has given an award to Katy Perry. Yes, you read that correctly. The Trevor Project, the organization whose aim is to prevent LGBTQ youth suicide, is giving an award to Katy Perry to honor her for “inspiring LGBTQ youth to find their spark through her video ‘Firework’” and ”increasing visibility and understanding of the LGBTQ community.” I wonder which acts of visibility and understanding they’re referring to exactly. Was it the time she made heaps of money for celebrating the stereotype that girls kissing girls is an act done for attention? You know, the song Kathleen Hanna called “straight-up offensive,” P!nk said “trivializes lesbianism” and Beth Ditto noted was indicative of Perry ”just riding on the backs of our culture, without having to pay any of the dues and not being actually lesbian or anything at all”? Or was it the time she peppered a song with effeminate gay male stereotypes so she could insult an ex-boyfriend, equating queerness with negativity and encouraging bullying against gay people? Did the fact that she opened that song with the lines “I hope you hang yourself with your H&M scarf /While jacking off listening to Mozart” really seal the deal for a LGBTQ youth suicide prevention group? Maybe it was the time she talked about looking like a “tranny” in Rolling Stone? Or when she mocked trans* people on twitter, inspiring a condemnation from GLAAD? Those don’t seem like moments when queer visibility was improved, nor were they stellar examples of helping other to “understand” our community any better. Those seem like moments when some homophobia slipped through the cracks, and no one listened when queers called it out. After all, Perry herself has declared that “certain parts of the world — especially in the U.S. — are just dying to be offended” and that it “won’t change how I express myself as an artist.” Being pissed off at Katy Perry isn’t anything new for the queer community, which is why it seems strange for us to be giving her some kind of award, although it’s certainly not the first time we’ve been baffled by Perry’s inclusion and celebration in a queer space. In 2008, Perry made the cover of the OUT 100, earning the coveted honor of “Musician of the Year,” inspiring lesbian entertainment blogger Dorothy Snarker to ask OUT, “What the fuck? Katy Perry? Katy fucking Perry? This is a joke, right? What you meant to do was pick an actual lesbian to pose amid the gay men, right? Right?” Trevor Project’s CEO makes $230,000 a year plus expenses.  Of course they’re gonna suck up to corporate bullshit. UGH.KATYPERRY.UGH.

gaysagainstgaga:

The Trevor Project has given an award to Katy Perry. Yes, you read that correctly. The Trevor Project, the organization whose aim is to prevent LGBTQ youth suicide, is giving an award to Katy Perry to honor her for “inspiring LGBTQ youth to find their spark through her video ‘Firework’” and ”increasing visibility and understanding of the LGBTQ community.”

I wonder which acts of visibility and understanding they’re referring to exactly. Was it the time she made heaps of money for celebrating the stereotype that girls kissing girls is an act done for attention? You know, the song Kathleen Hanna called “straight-up offensive,” P!nk said “trivializes lesbianism” and Beth Ditto noted was indicative of Perry ”just riding on the backs of our culture, without having to pay any of the dues and not being actually lesbian or anything at all”?

Or was it the time she peppered a song with effeminate gay male stereotypes so she could insult an ex-boyfriend, equating queerness with negativity and encouraging bullying against gay people? Did the fact that she opened that song with the lines “I hope you hang yourself with your H&M scarf /While jacking off listening to Mozart” really seal the deal for a LGBTQ youth suicide prevention group?

Maybe it was the time she talked about looking like a “tranny” in Rolling Stone? Or when she mocked trans* people on twitter, inspiring a condemnation from GLAAD? Those don’t seem like moments when queer visibility was improved, nor were they stellar examples of helping other to “understand” our community any better. Those seem like moments when some homophobia slipped through the cracks, and no one listened when queers called it out. After all, Perry herself has declared that “certain parts of the world — especially in the U.S. — are just dying to be offended” and that it “won’t change how I express myself as an artist.”

Being pissed off at Katy Perry isn’t anything new for the queer community, which is why it seems strange for us to be giving her some kind of award, although it’s certainly not the first time we’ve been baffled by Perry’s inclusion and celebration in a queer space. In 2008, Perry made the cover of the OUT 100, earning the coveted honor of “Musician of the Year,” inspiring lesbian entertainment blogger Dorothy Snarker to ask OUT, “What the fuck? Katy Perry? Katy fucking Perry? This is a joke, right? What you meant to do was pick an actual lesbian to pose amid the gay men, right? Right?”


Trevor Project’s CEO makes $230,000 a year plus expenses.  Of course they’re gonna suck up to corporate bullshit.

UGH.KATYPERRY.UGH.

(Source: kaliem)

"Those of us who’ve experienced abuse, rape and other violations don’t keep it quiet because we’re ashamed. Or because it’s intensely personal. The main reason we keep it quiet is because we know how you’ll treat us if we tell you. We know you have a culturally-granted privilege to remain ignorant. To not know, and therefore not to be responsible. Not to bother. Not to think about it."

- Non-survivor privilege and silence (The whole article is well worth reading, seriously.)

(Source: darziel)

"For me, home is the vague place where queer and Dixie overlap, often uncomfortably. This is why I’m constantly chasing after other Southern-reared queers; the kind who also had “Home Is Where The Heart Is” wood- or needlework somewhere in their childhood homes; who understand what Allison meant when she wrote, We claim our heritage with a full appreciation of how often it has been disdained; whose bodies are familiar with manual labor; the kind with at least one family recipe that is not a secret but a national treasure which is shown off whenever the opportunity to entertain presents itself."

- Fonseca via Autostraddle — Going Down (South): Home Is Where The (Queer) Heart Is (via autostraddle)