2/4/2021 Update: In light of chucklefuck TERF shit with Giggle, I am once again demanding the rest of you liberals educate yourselves on trans issues with Trans Liberation as a starting point. And you better believe more literature on minority struggle is in the pipelines. We’re doing some reading this month, libs. Get ready.

AUDIOBOOKS HAVE BEEN RECORDED FOR ALL 8 CHAPTERS. YOU LITERALLY HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR LIBERALISM.

https://hexbear.net/post/48476

Follow that link and you’ll find a free download of the book in pdf and comrade @EugeneDebs’s epub, comrade @futomes’ audiobooks for all eight chapters, and notes and discussions from the book (and don’t you dare just read the fucking notes you god damn liberals, read the fucking book or listen to the audiobook).

I spent an entire weekend night scanning the whole damn book so y’all could educate yourselves on the fucking struggles we’ve been screaming about for the past six months and hardly any of you damn cissie libs participated. Had you participated you’d probably have a better understanding of the struggles we face and we probably wouldn’t be in this situation where trans people are heading for this damn hills because you’re all shit libs driving us away.

Fucking read it or listen to the audiobooks and I won’t ask again. It’s all free. The book is only 147 pages - that’s 7 pages per night for exactly 3 weeks. I wipe my fucking ass with 7 pages, that’s nothing. People put genuine effort into this to ensure you could educate yourselves and you have no reason not to outside of fucking liberalism.

It reads quick. Drop whatever the fuck you’re reading and read this. Now. :leslie-shining:

Edit: I’ll be throwing up a discussion thread at some point in the next week or so for you damn shitlibs to comment on with things you find meaningful so I’ll know if you actually gave a shit. I swear to God I better see y’all in the comments.

If you’re having trouble downloading, there are links in this comment by u/hexaflexagonbear that seem to work.

  • MonteCristo [he/him,any]@hexbear.net
    English
    3·
    4 years ago

    Just finished reading this. Like others have said a lot of the Marxist stuff won’t be anything new to anyone on this site, but as a cishet man the “portraits” of the different lgbt+ perspectives really stuck out to me. I could read hundreds of pages of different voices talking about their lives and the oppression they faced. They were inspiring and heartbreaking and really helped me empathize better with the struggles lgbtq+ people deal with. Wish there were more of them in the book.

    Also the chapter on intersex people really fucked me up and pissed me off. I wasn’t aware of how common genital mutilation was performed on newborns, wtf.

  • Janked [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    4 years ago

    Reading it now, it’s really beautifully written.

    If for any reason you’re pushing back on this or putting it off, fucking don’t. Right from the book:

    These questions can only be answered when we begin to organize together, ready to struggle on each other’s behalf. Understanding each other will compel us as honest, caring people to fight each other’s oppression as though it was our own.

    Fuckin’ right :trans-hammer-sickle:

  • unperson [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    4 years ago

    I cleaned up and OCR’d your pdf :)

    Now it prints much prettier and you can select/highlight text! No excuses about it coming out all grey or not being able to highlight! And as a bonus, the file size is now only 2 MB.

    It will be here in libgen once it’s approved: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5EF98483F41CC783D0E48EFF635EBA3E

    Until then you can download it from https://partidopirata.com.ar/~unperson/trans_liberation.pdf

  • flees [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    4 years ago

    If you’re on the fence about reading this, you shouldn’t be! It’s an easy read and there’s literally no excuse not to. I read it while working 6 days a week at a plant. If my blue-collar ass can do it, so can you!

  • QuickEveryonePanic [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    4 years ago

    I’m about a third into it and it’s great. It’s mostly a compilation of speeches Leslie made at different events mixed with some personal background on the people that organised said events. It’s a quick and engaging read. It gives a wonderful feel for the beautiful mosaic that is human identity and the struggle that is being waged for people’s liberty of expression. As a cis manbrodude I’m learning a ton. Would recommend to literally everyone.

    :heart-sickle:

  • Sen_Jen [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    4 years ago

    “However, it is necessary to accept that there are tens of thousands of people in this country—perhaps millions — who want to express both a masculine and a feminine side — and many, many of those people are heterosexual.”

    That’s such a goddamn good quote, its from Chapter 2. I would describe myself as a cishet man, and have never had much interest in drag, but sometimes I want to wear a dress. I look at women wearing dresses and I’m like, “damn, they look great in that, why are they for women only?”. I’d like to be able to express my feminine side like that - although I don’t know if it should even be described as feminine. I want to wear something that has been arbitrarily relegated to women. Does that make jeans masculine? Were the second-wave feminists who broke gender norms by wearing them expressing their masculinity or simply wearing something they liked?

    This book is very good, its given me a lot to think about. Need to keep reading

  • lizbo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    4 years ago

    I strongly prefer paper copies so I am picking this up from my school’s library this afternoon 😎 also my boyfriend said he’ll read it too

    :leslie-shining: