Angela Watts told me who Leslie Feinberg was on our way to see LF speak at the University of Minnesota in 1997. On this walk with Angela, Martha Coventry, David Vandertie, and Max Beck I was only minutes removed from my first public confessional (AKA intersex workshop) and I was drunk on adrenaline, euphoria, and disbelief doing cartwheels in the quad. I was a budding intersex revolutionary. Without reservation that was one of the most significant in my life. Leslie walked the high wire decades before most knew such a wire existed. A better-lived life of integrity and service we likely won't find. I have no reservation saying that her novel
Her last words: “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.”
