butch

butch

female masculinity

first person

A Love Letter to Butch People (That Is Accidentally About My Dad)

Being able to be soft in this world is important for a lot of folks; but also, I think it’s a privilege. And when you exist in a world saying…

Ari —

Jun 4, 2018

butch

cold war

lgbt book reviews

Fill In Your 50s, 60s, and 70s Butch History With This Coloring Book

Why learn about butch lesbian herstory in the 50s, 60s and 70s when you can learn about butch lesbian herstory by looking at babes?

Ryan Yates —

Apr 18, 2018

butch

fullscreen

first person

Wherever West Is

“Loving women and loving the land are the two things I told myself I would never do, and somehow, they got all tangled up in each other.”

Jeanna —

Feb 8, 2018

butch

hanukkah

christmas

Gift Guide: For the Soft Butch Who’s Hard to Shop For

“Look good and cool while going anywhere” should be the soft butch motto, probably.

Molly Priddy —

Nov 30, 2017

butch

female masculinity

visual art

“BUTCH”: Photographer Meg Allen On Her Kickass Documentation of an Evolving Community

“There are a lot of butches out there still. More than ever. And in a larger variety than ever. And that is what my project depicts, in style, body, race…

Priya —

Aug 24, 2017

butch

masculine of center

gender

Masculine-of-Center Roundtable: How We Do It and What It Means To Us

“To me, being masculine-of-center means boyishness, it means blurring gender lines, it means a more vulnerable and delicate form of masculinity. It gives me the freedom to not fulfill expectations…

the team —

Aug 21, 2017

butch

Lists/Top 10s

beauty

Five Skincare and Grooming Products for Masculine of Center Folks

Masculine of center people are often left out of conversations about skincare, but we all deserve to feel good and comfortable in our skin.

Kit —

Jul 27, 2017

butch

Gertrude Stein

lgbt book reviews

Fill In Your Butch History With This Coloring Book

Why learn about butch lesbian herstory when you can learn about butch lesbian herstory by way of babes?

Ryan Yates —

Jul 18, 2017

bisexuality

butch

gender

You Need Help: My Mom Supports My Bisexuality, but Not My Butchness

Kristin of Everyone Is Gay and My Kid Is Gay gives advice for a 16-year-old and her mom trying to deal with coming out as bisexual and gender nonconforming!

Kristin —

Apr 20, 2017

bdsm

butch

lesbian sex

View From The Top: Topping While Butch

It took me years to settle into the idea that masculinity and topping were actually, authentically my identities.

Sinclair Sexsmith —

Mar 14, 2017

autostraddle merch

butch

style

Autostraddle + Sorte: A Merch Match Made In Heaven

We’re collaborating with Venezuelan design and clothing company Sorte Tienda to bring handmade, screenprinted, and very queer t-shirts into your life.

Adrian —

Sep 21, 2016

butch

read a f-cking book

literature

Read A F*cking Book: M-E Girard’s Novel “Girl Mans Up” Powerfully Explores Minefields of Gender

“Girard’s writing is special in the way it speaks the language of our lived experience of moving through and within gender — inching, painfully slow, changeable, delightful, sexy, and made…

Emma Eisenberg —

Sep 8, 2016