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Stone Butch Blues: 20th Anniversary Author Edition

Leslie Feinberg, Leslie Feinberg

4.67 AVERAGE

cant_get_over_ryuu's review against another edition

4.25

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Really interesting and inspiring work looking into butch/lesbian culture/identity/safety from the 1950s onwards. I learnt a lot from this book. 

kalamity's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

partly_stars's review against another edition

5.0

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I'm gonna incorporate this book into my personality now. Tha k you, good night

mslanna's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring

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 Despite the hard truths it it telling in plain voice, this book is a comforting hug. 

Cried a lot and came out of the other end with hope on my skin. 

fresheyre's review against another edition

5.0

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One of the most important LGBTQ+ works ever published. Feinberg isn't a born writer, but that almost makes the book better, since what we're reading feels raw and unpolished and all the more real for it.

joja_zch's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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un libro importante de leer. necesario.
leer te abre a otros mundos, otras perspectivas. y creo que eso ayuda a empatizar con la vida del otrx y tratar de juzgar menos. yo realmente creo que la lectura ayuda a eso; al menos a mí, sí me ayuda.
sí creo que resulta mejor escucharlo que leerlo, pero depende de cada una.

furyandfeathers's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

elbowsdeep's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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one of the best books ever written maybe

psna's review against another edition

5.0

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genuinely lifechanging

beckisreading's review against another edition

5.0

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I think if I read this book five + years ago, when I first heard about it, I would've walked away enjoying it immensely, but ultimately thinking "I'm so grateful things aren't as bad anymore." But five plus years ago I didn't even know I was trans, lol. I've been struggling with cultivating hope as things get worse politically. I've been intensely afraid and frozen in that fear. It's why I started reading again, so I could internalize people overcoming different circumstances, big and small. And SBB was not at all an easy read, it was so painful: the wins were minimal, and the loses were devastating. But it reminded me that there is a life worth fighting for (because what the fuck is the alternative), and I'm not alone, and people have survived. I grew up thinking all the hard work of liberation was already done in the past, and it was such a sheltered and naive perspective. It's clear to me that there is a lot of fighting left up to us now. So yeah, I still feel terrified about the state of the world, but this book, for a moment, shook me out of that inert state.

Thank you, Leslie Feinberg <3