The photo is a 1974 photo of Leslie Feinberg, from the FBI file on hir. I've written a piece on my interpretation of Transgender Warriors and Trans Liberation, but I don't think it's quite polished enough, so I'll post it later. Instead, I'll go over hir FBI file: https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/dc-metro/rg-065/6282555/Batch0010/6282555_100-HQ-480756.PDF.
The FBI thought Feinberg could be violating the Communist Control Act, advocating the overthrow of the government, and engaging in rebellion. Needless to say, a hero to all of us. Feinberg was a member of the Workers World Party (the party still exists, but more notably PSL split from it), which apparently wasn't openly advocating for the overthrow of the U.S, they just think it's inevitable.
My favorite line? "captioned subject is believed to be a white female, who became male through some kind of sex change operation, and is possibly homosexual". Some interesting language choice, and it's an interesting snapshot into the evolution of Leslie's identity.
The FBI found Leslie's place of birth and birthdate from public school records. It's a bit of an interesting look into all of the many places the FBI can get their information, along with how information like that was so much more patchwork before the digital age.
"Interview of subject is not being recommended because of the questionable nature of his sexuality". Hmm, interesting.
It's interesting how their investigation spanned multiple cities, from Kansas City to NYC to Bufffalo to Boston. It probably involved quite a few officers, though I'm sure it wasn't the main focus for all of them.
There's some interesting mention about changes in Leslie's gender identity. Born a girl, for a time wearing a beard and mustache, then going back to "she". I'm sure we all know, Feinberg's gender didn't stop evolving there.
"Subject reportedly contributes all extra money to WWP", Leslie definitely was dedicated to the cause. Leslie doesn't attend NYC WWP meetings, but the FBI doesn't mention why.
The FBI isn't immune to typoes, Leslie did some "criminal terspass" that garnered some attention.They wasted some time checking if Leslie was in Boston, but verified where Leslie in NYC lived by pretending to be a part of the Voter Registration Commission.
There's a whole 43 pages of documents, all just from 1974-75. There's plenty of interesting tidbits in there, so maybe check it out.
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Explain this to me chat. If I'm actually autistic, why when I get over stimulated do I listen to quiet music? Would it not make more sense to try and have silence?
I think I have demonstrated I am not actually autistic, because I like music too much.
We have stimulation we like and stimulation we don’t like. Sometimes the good stimulation is even really loud and intense. When I’m overstimulated I don’t simply want to be empty. I want good feelings to replace my bad ones. When silence isn’t an option I try to drown sound I don’t like with sound I do like. It doesn’t always work, esp when the bad stimulus is still there, but I will say the sensations of being outside can be at least relieving a bit when all else has failed me.
:lea-think: hmm, good and bad stimulation, that makes sense. I guess stimming is just repeating good stimulus.
I listen to music quiet to help me too
Yea see, and you're neurotypical too. Sometimes you just have to listen to the same song and mess with stuff for a little bit in a very neurotypical way.
This is a bit but knowing you do the same is genuinely very validating. That's honestly always been a thing I've been kinda "stuck" on but is obviously just silliness, now.
Yeah, a lot of times I’ve been like “but this one thing doesn’t fit into the criteria for the label. It doesn’t matter if everything else does, this means I’m probably invalid. later learns NDs share that experience and sometimes it really fits the criteria”
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Yes, I can listen to music when overstimulated, at least you know now c:
Really intense and chaotic music actually calms me down and helps me focus
Brains are weird, a lot of ambient music makes me kind of uneasy
Familiar music is basically just white noise at times. Doesn't really matter type of music.
For me, my ADHD>>autism, so I need at least some level of stimulation, so I pretty much always have music, videos, and/or streams playing if I'm not interacting with others. My brother can't stand it; the other day he was in my room and I was listening to two streams in the background and one of them had music playing in the background and the other had video game sounds in playing. So it was basically 4 audio sources in the background while I was trying to show him another video.
Are sure that's only an adhd thing 🤔 I always have a video or music going while I'm doing stuff, both is usually too much though.
Could also be a "I don't want to hear my own thoughts" thing
I listen to extreme noisecore and breakcore at max volume when I get overwhelmed, it genuinely soothes me. the neurodivergent brain is not straight forwards
i get calm when i drink coffee and listen to loud, fast, and bombastic music