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2.95k reviews for:
Stone Butch Blues: 20th Anniversary Author Edition
Leslie Feinberg, Leslie Feinberg
4.67 AVERAGE
2.95k reviews for:
Stone Butch Blues: 20th Anniversary Author Edition
Leslie Feinberg, Leslie Feinberg
4.67 AVERAGE
emotional
informative
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:
Complicated
A must read.
dark
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
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
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
A landmark piece of queer literature and a must-read for queers everywhere. It changed the way I view my own gender and presentation in a fundamental way that has literally changed my life. Excellent book.
Easiest 5 stars ive ever given. This may be my new favourite novel of all time actually.
Listened to it which definitely ruined it partially omg I HATED the narration
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
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
I feel like I've lived a whole nother life through reading this book. A life somewhat similar to what I might have experienced had I been born 70 years earlier. I laughed and cried and lived alongside Jess, and now that it's over I don't know what to do with myself. The prose in this book is simple yet often devastatingly beautiful, with some lines that cut like glass and others that feel like coming home. This book broke my heart and put it back together again too many times to count. What a wonderful testament to the joy and pain of being different.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
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:
Complicated
there is a life before reading this book and there is a life after it
Stone Butch Blues has immediately catapulted to my top 10 books of all time. It's an incredible portrait of humanity, especially those who are marginalised within marginalised groups - the black butch lesbian working class Ed, working class, closeted butch-for-butch Grant. What happens when they try to join unions? The women's movement? The civil rights movement? This book is the story of people who face exclusion and danger even in those spaces. It had me crying at several points. Everyone should know about this book, not just the queer community.
Stone Butch Blues is the (early) life story of a fictional working-class genderqueer lesbian from the 50s to 90s, as they grow up a "masculine girl child", survive police brutality, move jobs and homes, and eventually find the big city before journeying home for the final part of their story. It really is like the blues, as the character rolls through life and grows with it.
The author, former editor of Workers World, made the book free for readers forever. You can buy at-cost print-on-demand copies at www.lesliefeinberg.net, or read the digital copy for free.
Stone Butch Blues is the (early) life story of a fictional working-class genderqueer lesbian from the 50s to 90s, as they grow up a "masculine girl child", survive police brutality, move jobs and homes, and eventually find the big city before journeying home for the final part of their story. It really is like the blues, as the character rolls through life and grows with it.
The author, former editor of Workers World, made the book free for readers forever. You can buy at-cost print-on-demand copies at www.lesliefeinberg.net, or read the digital copy for free.