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T-MAC Book Group

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

This month the T-MAC Book Group will be reading "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg

This month the T-MAC Book Group will be reading Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

The T-MAC Book Group is a space for TGNC folks to come together and discuss books on a monthly basis. We strive to achieve diversity in representation of characters and authors (reflecting the diversity and intersectionality within TGNC communities), as well as in literary genres.

All Trans, nonbinary, gender non-conforming, or questioning adults (18+) are warmly welcome.

"Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence.Woman or man? Thats the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue--collar town in the 1950s, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist 60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early 70s. This powerful, provocative and deeply moving novel sees Jess coming full circle, she learns to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence." -From Amazon

Note that at Leslie Feinberg's request, this book was made free to the public via pdf form upon hir death. You can access the book at https://www.lesliefeinberg.net/

This event is co-hosted with T-MAC (the Transmasculine Alliance of Chicago).

For further information or if you have ideas about how the library can better serve the Evanston TGNC community at large, please email Katy Jacob (kjacob@cityofevanston.org).  

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