New publication by Queer Beograd collective is out now.

As part of Queer Beograd’s publishing activity and with the logistic help of Women at work organisation, a novel Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg is now out of press. We proudly present you with this cult book internationally considered the best account of the complexities surrounding transgender existence. After the German, Dutch, Chinese, Italian, Hebrew and Slovenian editions, Stone Butch Blues is now available in our language.

This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up in the McCarthy era and coming out as a young butch lesbian in the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-collar town. Stone Butch Blues traces a propulsive journey, powerfully evoking history and politics while portraying an extraordinary protagonist full of longing, vulnerability, and working-class grit. This once-underground classic takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of gender transformation and exploration and ultimately speaks to the heart of anyone who has ever suffered or gloried in being different.

Stone Butch Blues is a powerful reminder to us all of what it meant to go through and struggle for everything our predecessors fought for. It is a call for solidarity, to perceiving the interconnectedness of different oppressions since it is the only way towards the liberation, freedom and total transformation of the present economic and social regime. This message is particularly important to all of us living and working in the ex-Yugoslav territory, thus we hope that the copies of this book will find their way throughout the whole region, where the same language nowadays called differently is understood and spoken.

Leslie Feinberg is a long-term queer and grass-roots leftist activist and an awarded author. Ze¹ is a political journalist and the editor of Workers World. Ze has been a member of National Writers Union since 1981. and an author of a number of works. Feinberg's first novel Stone Butch Blues is widely considered a groundbreaking work about gender and is frequently taught at colleges, universities and high schools throughout America.

Queer Beograd collective dedicates this book to all the transgender people, who like Jess do not want, or cannot go down the standard medical road, but see their gender performance and body outside the rigid categories of the gender binary and essentialism.

You will be timely notified about the manner of distribution of the book on our website.

Queer Beograd collective

Edited/translated by: MJ

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