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Jess, the narrator of stone butch blues, spends the space of the novel looking for a way to authentically exist in the world at large. Stone butch blues is a novel written by activist leslie feinberg. Feinberg was the first theorist to advance a marxist concept of transgender liberation. Author leslie feinberg has done a remarkable thing in the writing of stone butch blues. The book has been awarded with stonewall book award for.
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