Leslie Feinberg dedicated the 20th anniversary Author’s Edition of Stone Butch Blues to CeCe McDonald.
CeCe is a trans woman activist of color in Minneapolis, MN, who was punished with a heavy prison sentence for defending herself from a white racist neo-fascist attacker.
In “This Is What Solidarity Looks Like” Feinberg gathered together a visual “how-to-organize manual” of this movement. The slideshow starts with the first local gatherings in Minneapolis and shows how the collective organizing of Free CeCe! spanned the globe.
Photo credit: Leslie Feinberg
A movement grew from local to international to free CeCe and to support trans* people’s right to self-defense. Feinberg fought for CeCe’s freedom, and was arrested for writing the words: Free CeCe! on the courthouse walls where CeCe was sentenced.
Here are some of Leslie Feinberg’s articles about the struggle to Free CeCe!
Part 1: “Free CeCe McDonald!”—The right to fight back Dec. 7, 2012
Part 2: CeCe McDonald & Anoka students tear white hood off “bullying” Dec. 13, 2012
Part 4: In defense of peoples’ power / Capitalism profits from guns, war & reaction
Part 5: Guns—weapons or tools? Pointed which way? Jan. 13, 2013
Photographs
You can see more of Leslie Feinberg’s photos on hir Flickr stream, including “The Screened-In Series,” a disability-art, class-conscious documentary of hir Hawley-Green neighborhood, photographed entirely from behind the windows of hir apartment. Her photo stream was active through November 15, 2014.
