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Stone Butch Blues

Levanta Fuego Editorial

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Pages
542 pp.
Language
Spanish
Publisher
Levanta Fuego Editorial
Year
2021
ISBN
9788409296163
Dimensions
15.6 x 2.72 x 23.39 cm
Written by
Leslie Feinberg and Judit del Río y Layla Martínez

Considered a cult work in the LGBTQ community and one of the most important novels in 20th-century American literature, Stone Butch Blues tells the story of Jess Goldberg, a working-class butch lesbian from the northern United States. Jess doesn’t have it easy. Everyone seems bothered by her appearance, her identity, her gender expression. She will have to face police violence, insults from bosses, misunderstanding from her family, disgusted looks on the street; arrests, psychiatric hospitalizations, beatings, scorn, dismissals. She will have to learn to live with the wounds and scars and to be who she is above all else. And in doing so, she will also experience the support of the butch, drag, and queer community, the warmth of chosen family, romantic love, and political activism in revolutionary unions. Committed, moving, tough, tender, and brave, Stone Butch Blues is Leslie Feinberg’s best-known work, which reflects many elements of their own biography. Like Jess, Feinberg suffered scorn and hatred for their identity as

Title
Stone Butch Blues
Author
Leslie Feinberg, Judit del Río y Layla Martínez
Publisher
Levanta Fuego Editorial
Published
2021
Availability
In stock
Language
Español
Pages
542 pp.
ISBN-13
9788409296163
LGTBIQ+ representation
Lesbian / sapphic , Queer
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