A review by worm_food
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

challenging hopeful reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I could write pages upon pages upon pages talking about what this book did to me and what it evoked from me and it wouldn't be enough. It would never be enough. People are all we have. Elder queers are all we have. I would literally chew off all my fingers one by one to bring Leslie Feinberg back. It's about love it's about hope it's about shame and fear, it's a history lesson that had no right to leave anyone feeling this raw. But how couldn't it. It's about deconstructing identity and gender and it's about understanding the sense futility and pain that come with it. It's about how impossible it is to survive alone, or by love that's borrowed. I will never understand it all, I could never hope to. And yet this is one of those things that can resonate so deeply it feels like you're going crazy. 

Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me. I will never emotionally recover. Fuck. 
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