Leslie Feinberg’s Country

The great trans author’s final work — photos of hir home in upstate New York — helped me learn how to survive.

We get one (1) sunny day per year and this is the only known photo of it. Photo by Tom Dillon on Unsplash.

Upstate New York is a hard place. The landscape is imposing for a city person: Cold, and craggy, with huge, deeply forested hills and jagged rock cliffs that rise up around you the moment you drive out of the city center. It has a…