Drag King Dreams
by Leslie Feinberg
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A veteran of the women's and gay movement of the past 30 years, Max's mid-life crisis hits in the midst of the post-9/11 world. Max is lonely and uncertain about her future -- fearful, in fact, of America's future with its War on Terror and War in Iraq -- with only a core group of friends to turn to for reassurance. Max is shaken from her crisis, however, by the news that her friend Vickie, a transvestite, has been found murdered on her way home late one night. As the community of show more cross-dressers, drag queens, lesbian and gay men, and "genderqueers" of all kinds stand up together in the face of this tragedy, Max taps into the activist spirit she thought had long disappeared and for the first time in years discovers hope for her future. show lessTags
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2006. I really liked this book about working class trans and queer folx who work together in a gay bar. There are trans femme, trans masc, non-binary, drag queens, transvestite characters. Content warning for murdered trans woman. I like that they protest and have a revolutionary political perspective. It’s set in New York and Max, the trans masculine character is Jewish. Very cool book if you can stomach getting past the bashing which happens in the beginning.
The most recent novel by the author of 'Stone Butch Blues' is a nuanced exploration of (trans)identities in a complex cultural, political and technological landscape. Feinberg challenges the reader to conceptualize the characters in the novel without revealing "all" much the way our own, multi-faceted, real identities and lives play out on a daily basis. Excellent work to further queer the representations of the queer self/body/life.
Blah, blah and more blah. If you were expecting anything like Stone Butch Blues, lose those expectations. I found the characters disappointing, the novel undeveloped and rushed.
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Leslie Feinberg was born in Kansas City, Missouri on September 1, 1949. At the age of 14, she began supporting herself by working in the display sign shop of a local department store. She eventually stopped attending high school, though she officially received her diploma. She was a pioneer in transgender and lesbian issues, workers' rights, and show more intersectionality. She was a journalist for the Workers World newspaper since 1974, was the editor of the Political Prisoners page of Workers World newspaper for 15 years, and became a managing editor in 1995. She wrote several books during her lifetime including Stone Butch Blues, Transgender Warriors: Making History, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue, Drag King Dreams, and Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba. She received numerous awards including the Lambda Literary Award and the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award. She died from complications of Lyme disease and multiple tick-borne co-infections diseases on November 15, 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 2006-03-01
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