More than thirty years after its publication, Leslie Feinberg's novel Stone Butch Blues remains a fixture on queer bookshelves. Its pages hold archives of activism and lived realities that are repeatedly taken up and discussed in literature and scholarship alike. How are scholarship, archive, activism, and literature connected, and what shared potential do they hold? How can we still look at queer, lesbian, and trans activism and archival work today, with and through the text and context of Stone Butch Blues?
In conversation, Clara Rosa Schwarz, Desz Debreceni, and Lara Ledwa jointly examine contemporary discourses on language bans as well as language change, the struggle for visibility, and queer alliances.
