A review by lizdemp
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

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

4.0

this book can be very slow and overly verbose where it isn't necessary, but it is also far and away the biggest book for butch representation ever, especially stones, and their relationship with femmes and women who are in sex work, and the queer scene of the 60s through towards the 80s. It can be extremely harrowing to read and know our history is as bleak as this, but also god there was so much community and love and people were imperfect but god they loved each other the best they knew how. and there's such a focus on butches, in how butches feel, in the way that their emotions are strangled up through their throats, in the way that butches needed to be strong to survive, and still faced huge blowback from their own community. butches who feel of their gender as I do, feel od their minds as I do, oh it's so lovely to find media which represents you even when the media is imperfect.