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TRANSGENDER WARRIORS Discussion w/ Orca Books Co-op’s Marxist Reading Group
June 26, 2023 at 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm PDT
Come discuss some theory & history with Orca Books Co-op’s Marxist Reading Group.
Our next title is Leslie Feinberg’s TRANSGENDER WARRIORS [1996]
We will be discussing the text in it’s entirety Monday, June 26th at 6:00PM at Orca Books Co-op (315 5th Ave SE, Olympia, WA)
We will also be watching a video lecture by Feinberg afterwards at 7:45PM at Burial Grounds Coffee Collective (601 Capitol Way S, Olympia, WA)
You can purchase a copy of the book at our store or on our website at orcabooks.com!
Email noraa@orcabooks.com for more info!
A little bit about the book: This groundbreaking book—far ahead of its time when first published in 1996 and still galvanizing today—interweaves history, memoir, and gender studies to show that transgender people, far from being a modern phenomenon, have always existed and have exerted their influence throughout history. Leslie Feinberg—hirself a lifelong transgender revolutionary—reveals the origin of the check-one-box-only gender system and shows how zie found empowerment in the lives of transgender warriors around the world, from the Two Spirits of the Americas to the many genders of India, from the trans shamans of East Asia to the gender-bending Queen Nzinga of Angola, from Joan of Arc to Marsha P. Johnson and beyond.