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Welcome to the seventh week of reading Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg!

If you're just getting started, here's a link to the thread for

We're only doing one chapter per week and the discussion threads will be left open, so latecomers are still very much welcome to join if interested.

As mentioned before... This isn't just a book for trans people! If you're cis, please feel free to join and don't feel intimidated if you're not trans and/or new to these topics.

Here is a list of resources taken from the previous reading group session:

pdf download
epub download - Huge shout out to comrade @EugeneDebs for putting this together. I realized I didn't credit them in either post but here it is. I appreciate your efforts. ❤️
chapter 1 audiobook - Huge shout out to comrade @futomes for recording these. No words can truly express my appreciation for this. Thank you so much. ❤️
chapter 2 audiobook
chapter 3 audiobook
chapter 4 audiobook
chapter 5 audiobook
chapter 6 audiobook
chapter 7 audiobook
chapter 8 audiobook

Also here's another PDF download link and the whole book on ProleWiki.

In this thread we'll be discussing Chapter 7: Learning from Experience

CWs for this chapter: discussion of Rudy Giuliani, gender/homophobia, capitalist exploitation

This chapter covers an address given at the 7th Annual Queer Graduate Studies Conference, and discusses Marxist theory, the oppression of queer people under capitalism, and the importance of uniting the liberation movements who fight against capitalist oppression.

The Portrait section here by William/Peaches discusses winning respect from people by fighting for their collective rights.

I'll ping whoever has been participating so far, but please let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed).

Feel free to let me know if you have any feedback also. Thanks!

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

Absolutely loved when Les pulled out Marxism. Sie spoke about Cuba earlier, but trying to get across some materialist analysis to graduates was fantastic, I loved to read it. Sie also did a wonderful job talking about the relation of theory to practice, the goal is to understand the world in order to change it.

Peaches had a great portrait, and a great quote at the end, too:

If you are such big bad men where were you when I was shaking my fist and raising hell at City Hall fighting for your Rights? Pushing a broom somewhere. If I’m a Homo fighting for my right, show me how much man you are and join in this fight.

Looking forward to the final week!