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* TotallyEighteen: When Jess runs away from home, she is sixteen. She winds up at a lesbian bar, claiming to be 21 so that they will serve her a drink.
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* TotallyEighteen: Totally18: When Jess runs away from home, she is sixteen. She winds up at a lesbian bar, claiming to be 21 so that they will serve her a drink.
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* RapeAndSwitch: Jess is separately gang=raped, as a teenager and later as an adult, by different groups of men who are trying to "fix" her sexuality.
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* RapeAndSwitch: Jess is separately gang=raped, gang raped, as a teenager and later as an adult, by different groups of men who are trying to "fix" her sexuality.sexuality. She remains a lesbian, and only becomes more traumatized.
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''Stone Butch Blues'' is a 1993 semi-autobiographical novel by transgender activist Leslie Feinberg. It follows the story of Jess, a "he-she" (later "butch," as the story progresses and she hates herself less) from a working class Jewish family. After she is raped on campus by members of the football team trying to "cure" her and the crime is dismissed by the school authorities, she runs away from home and begins a new life, growing up under the supervision of older lesbians, who provide her with a sense of community. Later, she becomes a union activist. Jess considers and undergoes hormone therapy and attempts to transition to being a man, but ultimately decides to remain a "stone butch," and forsakes transitioning. The novel is very much TruthInTelevision for the time period, and that should depress you.
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''Stone Butch Blues'' is a 1993 semi-autobiographical novel by transgender activist Leslie Feinberg. It follows the story of Jess, a "he-she" (later "butch," as the story progresses and she hates herself less) from a working class Jewish family. After she is raped on campus by members of the football team trying to "cure" her and the crime is dismissed by the school authorities, she runs away from home and begins a new life, growing up under the supervision of older lesbians, who provide her with a sense of community. Later, she becomes a union activist.
The story explores gender, sexuality, and intersectionality from the perspective of a character trying to find a place in life. Jessconsiders and undergoes hormone therapy and attempts in order to transition to being pass as a man, but ultimately decides to remain that she is tired of living in a "stone butch," way that feels unauthentic and forsakes transitioning. stops taking testosterone. While she/her pronouns are used to refer to Jess, in today's terms, Jess would likely identify as nonbinary or genderqueer.
The novel is very much TruthInTelevision for the time period, and that should depressyou.
you.
The story explores gender, sexuality, and intersectionality from the perspective of a character trying to find a place in life. Jess
The novel is very much TruthInTelevision for the time period, and that should depress
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Jess. She outright states that she doesn't feel like a woman, but she isn't a man either. Removing her breast tissue is something that she doesn't regret, but she has complicated feelings on transitioning. The changes brought about by testosterone don't seem to distress her so much as the feeling of passing as a straight man, and in the end she gives up on attempting to pass.
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* SexAsRiteOfPassage: Rather than humorous, Jess' first time with a woman is sweet and loving. Earlier on, one could say that she truly became a member of the community once she was raped.
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* SexAsRiteOfPassage: Rather than humorous, Jess' first time with a woman is sweet and loving. Earlier on, one could say that she truly became a member of the community once she was raped.
