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Happy May Day! 
To celebrate workers -- particularly trans workers -- we're spotlighting Leslie Feinberg (ze/hir), a transgender and labor rights activist who offered one of the first Marxist analyses of trans liberation. (Part 1)
To celebrate workers -- particularly trans workers -- we're spotlighting Leslie Feinberg (ze/hir), a transgender and labor rights activist who offered one of the first Marxist analyses of trans liberation. (Part 1)
“Of all the periods of human history, I am excited to live in this particular epoch.
In just five decades, I have witnessed technology outstrip anything I saw as a child in a Buck Rogers movie, or anything I read by Jules Vernes-Mars probes, Pentium chips, laser microsurgery. 2/
In just five decades, I have witnessed technology outstrip anything I saw as a child in a Buck Rogers movie, or anything I read by Jules Vernes-Mars probes, Pentium chips, laser microsurgery. 2/
Yet sweatshop conditions today — in this country and around the world — are reminiscent of the nineteenth century exploitation of labor that I read about as a child in Charles Dickens’s novels.
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It is this contradiction that creates the material basis for the inevitable rise of an independent, anti-capitalist movement by the working class.
Will trans people be in the front ranks of these battles? Of course we will be. Wherever oppression has existed
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Will trans people be in the front ranks of these battles? Of course we will be. Wherever oppression has existed
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Wherever oppression has existed, we have been at the forefront of struggles.”
From "Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue." published in 1998.
Happy #InternationalWorkersDay! If you're interested in reading more from Feinberg, we'll include links to some of hir writings
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From "Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue." published in 1998.
Happy #InternationalWorkersDay! If you're interested in reading more from Feinberg, we'll include links to some of hir writings
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