Career
Feinberg's 1993 first novel Stone Butch Blues, won the Lambda Literary Award and the 1994 American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Award. Despite the power of first-person narrative in fiction, the work is not an autobiography. This book is frequently taught at colleges, universities and some high schools.
Feinberg has also authored two non-fiction books, Transliberation: Beyond Pink or Blue and Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Rupaul, the novel Drag King Dreams, and Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba, a compilation of 25 journalistic articles. Feinberg is also a high-ranking member of the Workers World Party and a managing editor of Workers World newspaper.
Feinberg's writings on LGBT history, "Lavender & Red," frequently appear in the Workers World newspaper. Feinberg has also been involved in Camp Trans and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Starr King School for the Ministry for transgender and social justice work.
Feinberg began taking photographs in late 2008 after illness and resulting disability made writing difficult.
Partial Academic Bibliography by M.R. Cook: http://www.transgenderwarrior.org/references.html
Partial curriculum vitae: http://www.transgenderwarrior.org/about.html
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