butch/femme

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butch please

first person

Butch Please: Butch With A Side Of Misogyny

“It’s easy for us to say that we don’t participate in the patriarchy because we are women, or because we have been women, that we have known what it’s like…

Kate —

Apr 26, 2013

butch

butch please

first person

Butch Please: Butch Gets Dressed

I want to talk about shape-shifting, and clothing, and being a butch who wears things, because so much of butchness is tied up in the things we put on our…

Kate —

Apr 19, 2013

butch

butch/femme

issues

Thank The 50’s For Your Underpinnings (And Other Fashion Freedoms)

It’s because of the real-life women who took enormous risks to their personal safety, and who physically fought to wear whatever undies, clothing and footwear they damn well pleased that…

GhostCat —

Mar 6, 2013

butch

butch please

first person

Butch Please: Butch and Swag

It’s that tie-straightening and sunglass removal feeling.

Kate —

Jan 18, 2013

butch

butch please

first person

Butch Please: Butch Does Chivalry

“I’ve seen some queer people who insist on holding doors, and other queers who use their stilettos to step on the feet of the men who do the same. I…

Kate —

Jan 11, 2013

butch

butch please

first person

Butch Please: Butch Antiquated

“I just don’t see why a woman would want to aspire to masculinity when she doesn’t like men.”

Kate —

Dec 28, 2012

butch please

butch/femme

first person

Butch Please: Broken-Hearted Butch

“That’s what you wish you could tell her when you’re staring at your shoes or finishing that drink or pretending there’s nothing else to say.”

Kate —

Dec 21, 2012

butch please

butch/femme

first person

Butch Please: Butch Gets Emotional

“I get angry at myself for having feelings this big to begin with, and then I wrestle for a few hours with the unique mixture of self-loathing, rage, and sobbing.”

Kate —

Nov 24, 2012

butch please

butch/femme

first person

Butch Please: Butch Buys A Drink

“If I wear my heart on my sleeve – and I do these days, much to the shock and dismay of a butch gone prematurely tender – then the sleeve…

Kate —

Nov 16, 2012

butch/femme

lesbian tumblr

gender

Top Six Tumblrs Featuring Butches Doing Things

This is what the inside of my heart looks like.

Gabrielle Korn —

Oct 2, 2012

bisexuality

butch/femme

lesbian sex

In Which This Queer Sex Blogger Feels Up New York Magazine’s “Sex Issue”

There is a “New York Magazine” issue dedicated entirely to boning. Did you know? And guess what? It’s not entirely about heterosexuals in missionary position–there are so many more perspectives…

A.E. Osworth —

Jul 30, 2012

90s nostalgia

butch/femme

first person

True Confessions of a Queer Lisa Frank Enthusiast

“I’m all about Lisa Frank right now because of what she means to my understanding of gender, sexuality, and the fluid nature of both.”

Kate —

Jul 10, 2012