What are Stone Butch Blues

Leslie Feinberg’s novel, Stone Butch Blues, follows the experiences of Jess Goldberg, a stone butch, as she traverses Upstate New York in the 1940s and 50s. Halberstam often turns to Stone Butch Blues to illustrate the tribulations of being a butch who passes as male in gender binarist spaces, the legitimacy of being “stone,” and the identities of transgender people.