I’m so excited for this ahhhhh
Photo by Rachel Walker
As trans* women of color, we all hear about the murders and the mutilations and the abuse and I just I knew that I was coming into this age range where that would be happening. So I kind of felt like a rush to put this memoir out so that these news reports couldn’t project their views onto me. Like, I have a book, you can’t lie about this any more.
Photo credit: Boston branch, Workers World Party
Photo caption: Leslie Feinberg, Boston, 1984.
I had already been infected with tick-borne diseases for a decade.
6/11/13
Message from Leslie Feinberg:
I want to be the one to tell you that I am failing to thrive very rapidly,
and a local hospice expert is working to set up care in our home.
In the meantime, messages of personal support are welcome,
but I can’t respond. I can’t do interviews or videos.
Please no commercial inquiries of any kind.
Minnie Bruce and I welcome your messages of support at: minniebrucepratt@yahoo.com
Please do not send these messages to our other e-mail accounts!
And—please do not ask for details or send medical advice.
I suffered with tick-borne diseases for 35 years without treatment. In the five plus years since I have been in treatment, I have been diagnosed with late-stage Lyme along with serious coinfections including Babesiosis, Protomyxzoa Rheumatica, and Bartonella. My 20-year pattern of periodic immuno-suppression has become chronic for quite some time.
My body is failing so fast that I can’t undergo more diagnostic and treatment attempts. It is difficult for me to swallow, walk, breathe, talk and write. This sharp decline, evidenced in labs and in life, has forced me to set up home hospice care quickly.
My goal is to survive hospice. But I set out to do so with this reminder: illnesses and deaths are not personal failings.
Nor is hospice a surrender.
While it might not be realistic or possible, I have a fierce determination to get out in the streets with you all at the Central New York Pride March this Saturday, June 15.
I will continue to work in hospice—if not now, when?—to finish the Stone Butch Blues 20th anniversary author’s edition. {For updates on this free online-read/at cost print-on-demand, www.tumblr.com/blog/leslie-feinberg}
I will continue to work on the slideshow honoring CeCe McDonald. Titled “This is what solidarity looks like,” the slideshow is part of a multi-media dedication of Stone Butch Blues to CeCe. The slide show demonstrates the breadth of the demand to “Free CeCe!” {supportcece.wordpress.com}
The deadline for “Free CeCe!” photo submissions is July 1, 2013.
Send solidarity photos/art, permission form, and photo information including date/location/photographer to: transgenderwarrior@gmail.com
See permission forms: www.iacenter.org/lgbt/feinberg-mcdonald100712/
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Health care for free—not for profits!
Jobs, homes, education, recreation—
not wars at home & abroad—covert & overt—
that only profit the 1%!
Free CeCe McDonald, B. Manning & Lynn Stewart!
End police brutality & racist mass incarceration
Solidarity with immigrant workers, Muslims,
oppressed peoples and workers
around the world!
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