Reddit mentions of Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue

Leslie Feinberg's Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue is fantastic!

I agree that radical feminism is ultimately a bourgeois and reactionary ideology, and we should combat it in all communist organizations. I have a couple questions though:

> "homosexuality is cultural"

I've never seen a radical feminist say this, I've seen the opposite more often ("homosexuality is something you're born with and is attraction to the same sex" and other transphobic shit like that)

I would say that gay behavior is not a socially constructed phenomenon but gay identity and the social position of LGBT people in capitalist society is. Thoughts?

As for articles and stuff from a marxist position against radical feminism:

Trans People and the Dialectics of Sex and Gender: Against Radical and Liberal Feminism by Alyx Mayer

Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto this isn't specifically a Marxist analysis, its influenced by several trends (queer anarchism, post-modernism, Marxism, and post-colonialism) but its easy to see that the analysis is easily adaptable into a more specifically Marxist framework.

Sexing the Body by Anne Fausto Sterling. This also isn't a Marxist book but it tears apart biological essentialism that radfems love and is a good book (its written by a biologist too so its not just some random person writing this, its a real scientist)

Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg. Argument for transgender liberation by a Marxist-Leninist trans woman. All of her stuff is excellent and worth reading.

Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement by Anuradha Gandhy. Another great piece that lays out the basis of Proletarian Feminism

For Trans liberation I would read Leslie Feinberg's Beyond Pink and Blue.

For Gay and Lesbian liberation I'd read Harry Hay's Radically Gay

On Feminism there's a lot. So you may want to grab Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex and Silvia Federici's Revolution at Point Zero. Both will give you a historical and economic understanding of women's struggle.

On the African struggle I would read Thomas Sankara's The Burkina Faso Revolution.

For the Indian struggle, I suggest Anuradha Ghandy's Scripting for Change if you can find a copy somewhere.

That's it for stuff outside of the purely economic sphere.

As for fiction that intersects with communism, I suggest Iain M. Banks's Culture Series. Considering Phlebas, The Player of Games and Use of Weapons. The late Banks did a tremendous job at portraying a classless, stateless, moneyless, post-scarcity society with access to cornucopia technology.

For generally entertaining Sci-Fi that'll keep you turning pages, and is also written in a non-traditional way, you have to read the Warhammer 40,000 Ciaphas Cain series. Get yourself the two omnibi Hero of the Imperium and Defender of the Imperium you'll enjoy yourself to no end. Commissar Ciaphas Cain just kicks all kinds of arse.

If you enjoy Fantasy, and want a bit with a Marxist Dragon, then I recommend Alan Dean Foster's The Spell Singer Adventures series. Specifically books 1 and 2, Spellsinger and The Hour of the Gate. It's also laugh out loud funny.

If you're more into old fashioned adventures, like Conan the Barbarian kind, then you need to read Michael Moorcocks's Elric series. You can get your toes wet with Elric: The Stealer of Souls. The stories are great fun, Elric is an absolute Byronic anti-hero, he's physically weak, he has to dope himself up, he causes the downfall of his own civilisation, and yet he's a great swordsman, poet, philosopher, and so on. Very much a nihilist, very much a tragic hero.

Finally if you want to delve into the Paranormal, and specifically into the romance category (and why not, I say?). I think you should absolutely read Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series. Starting with Halfway to the Grave. Written by a woman, with a female protagonist, all from her first person perspective. It's a vampire story, and as far as the lore is concerned follows very closely to the White Wolf idea of the Masquerade. It's nothing like Twilight, you'll enjoy it and if you're like me, get hooked on the series.