gender identity

comics/graphic novels

gender identity

lgbt book reviews

Team Pick: “The Gender Book” Is The Best Thing You Will Read Online Today

Cara’s Team Pick: It’s illustrated, it’s interactive, it’s informative, and it’s not even done yet!

Cara —

Jun 17, 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

gender identity

greatest hits

first person

Fifty Shades of White

Having the blessing – or curse – of lighter skin is a double edged sword. I never gave much thought to the idea that society needs positive cultural images of…

Elaine —

May 28, 2013

butch

butch please

first person

Butch Please: Butch Goes Camping

Camp is family, after all.

Kate —

May 24, 2013

gaming

Geekery

first person

Choose Your Character: I’m Peach, Not Mario

“I did extremely well in any video games with dating elements, like Persona 4, but virtual dating and real dating are two very different things. I could master playing as…

Monica —

May 20, 2013

butch

butch please

first person

Butch Please: A Letter to Baby Butches

I have every faith in you, baby butch. I know you will be careful with this word and its legacy. It looks like a badge but it feels like a…

Kate —

May 17, 2013

butch

butch please

first person

Butch Please: Butch and Boundaries

Why is it that time and time again, people act like they can’t make me uncomfortable? That as a butch — as well as a queer person, a top, someone…

Kate —

May 10, 2013

butch

butch please

first person

Butch Please: Butch in the Bathroom

She looked me up and down, shook her head like she was clearing her ears, and then turned to check the sign on the door. Ah, I thought.

Kate —

May 3, 2013

butch

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

'zines/magazines

gender identity

gender

Submit Yr Gender Feels To The Bandit Zine

If you’re an artist, writer, poet, or generally rad person with feelings about gender and/or your gender identity, The Bandit Zine is in need of your submissions.

Kate —

Mar 11, 2013

gender identity

personal essay

first person

Unwritten On The Body

As with the meaning of written text, our bodies float somewhere between the author (ourselves) and the reader (those we encounter).

Kennedy —

Mar 7, 2013