Kate, Author at Autostraddle

Breaking the Girls

Jamie Babbit

Murderous Crazy Lesbians in Pools: Breaking The Girls

Breaking the Girls is not the kind of movie where you are going to see RuPaul in short-shorts. Not unless RuPaul’s corpse is in short-shorts when they find him floating…

Kate —

Jul 11, 2013

butch

butch please

first person

Butch Please: Butch is a Hairy Man-Hating Lesbian

I’m a hairy short-haired sonuffabitch in plaid and denim that by that boy’s definition, and so many other definitions I’ve heard, is considered by society to be one of “those…

Kate —

Jul 5, 2013

butch

butch please

friendship

Butch Please: Butch Seeking Butch (For Friendship)

Okay, I’ll say it: I have trouble making butch friends. Actually, I have trouble feeling like I am a part of the butch community, period.

Kate —

Jun 30, 2013

Alternative Lifestyle Haircuts

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hair

Butch Please: Butch Cuts Her Hair

Hair is a part of my queer ritual.

Kate —

Jun 21, 2013

butch

butch please

first person

Butch Please: Butch Gets Intimate

Is there a space within sex positivity for those of us who feel uncomfortable doing what sex positivism seems to ask of us?

Kate —

Jun 14, 2013

butch

butch please

first person

Butch Please: Butch on the Streets

There is something strange about the street harassment I receive as a butch in that it is often terrifying and extremely triggering, but something about it makes me feel justified.…

Kate —

Jun 7, 2013

butch please

genderqueer

first person

Butch Please: Butch in the Airport

Sometimes I am proud as a stone of my genderqueer identity. But sometimes I miss womanhood with a fierce hot ache that feels an awful lot like missing my mother,…

Kate —

May 31, 2013

butch

butch please