Leslie Feinberg - writer, activist, gender warrior! Author of Stone Butch Blues, a novel about a butch lesbian who grows up in a factory town during the 1950s, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul (Beacon), the first analysis of the historical roots of transgender oppression, and most recently, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Feinberg is a national leader of Workers World Party, and a Managing Editor of Workers World newspaper. S/he is well-known in the U.S. and many other parts of the world as an activist who works to help forge a strong bond between the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans communities. As a trade unionist, anti-racist and socialist, Feinberg also organizes to build strong bonds of unity between these struggles and those of movements in defense of oppressed nationalities, women, disabled, and the working class movement as a whole. Feinberg has worked for more than 25 years in defense of the sovereignty, self-determination and treaty rights of Native nations and for freedom of political prisoners in the U.S. S/he is an internationalist and has been part of the anti-Pentagon movement since the U.S. war against Vietnam.