butch Archives

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

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lesbian health

first person

How Endometriosis Helped Me Become a Tenderhearted Butch

“Instead of getting medical care, I had a work colleague help me to my hotel room and pour me a tumbler of whiskey. I downed the whiskey with a handful…

Jules —

Aug 31, 2016

alison bechdel

AZMarie

celebrities (vapid fluff)

Top 10 Stud and Butch Crushes of 2015

In 2015 we’ve met or got reacquainted with some extremely hot masculine-of-center women or otherwise identified queers. Here’s 10 sexy studs worth swooning over.

Lyn —

Dec 23, 2015

2016 presidential race

butch

politics + activism

Donald Trump’s Rosie O’Donnell Jab Wasn’t Just Sexist, It Was Homophobic, Too

In Donald Trump’s world, women without “normative” gender presentations are fat slobs and “traditionally attractive” women are bimbos and idiots.

Riese —

Aug 8, 2015

butch

the speakeasy

movie reviews

“The Same Difference” Breaks Down All The “Rules” of Being Butch

The Same Difference takes the lid off of the many boxes that we as a community put ourselves into in respect to gender.

Carolyn Wysinger —

Jul 20, 2015

androgynous fashion

butch

parenting & family

Butchbaby & Co. Brings Maternity Wear Out of the Women’s Section

Their philosophy is one of the best I’ve ever heard: “Don’t change just because your body does.”

Kaitlyn —

Dec 20, 2014

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leslie feinberg

first person

How Leslie Feinberg Changed Our Lives: The Autostraddle Roundtable

“I could feel the power that came from being butch, the paradox of growing up a girl and then becoming the suited partner of a beautiful woman, the torture of…

the team —

Nov 26, 2014

butch

Daily Fix

politics + activism

Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Lesbian, Activist, Author, and Revolutionary Dies at 65

Leslie Feinberg died at home in Syracuse, NY, with hir partner and spouse of 22 years, Minnie Bruce Pratt, at hir side. Hir last words were: “Remember me as a…

KaeLyn —

Nov 17, 2014

ari fitz

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