genderqueer

butch

butch please

first person

Butch Please: Butch Goes Camping

Camp is family, after all.

Kate —

May 24, 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

genderqueer

mental health

first person

Transitioning While Genderqueer (Despite the Standards of Care)

“It would have been nice to share my entire truth with her, but because of the Standards of Care, I didn’t; I feared my story would be seen as diverging…

Madeline —

May 13, 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

dapper fashion

DapperQ

queer fashion

He Said/We Said Takes a Field Trip To the Art Gallery

Forget marble statues and artsy films. Our models are living, breathing masterpieces of style.

dapperq —

Feb 11, 2013

butch

butch please

first person

Butch Please: Anxious Little Butch

Anxiety on a butch is no different than anxiety on anyone else, but somehow I feel an immense shame as a result of the two’s interactions.

Kate —

Feb 8, 2013

butch please

female masculinity

first person

Butch Please: A Butch By Any Other Name

“There are so many terms for what I am – genderqueer, genderfluid, agender, pangender, neutrois – but none of them feel quite right. So Kade takes the place of that…

Kate —

Feb 1, 2013

event

genderqueer

the scene

You Should Go: Queer & Utter Bedlam Werks Those Pecs

There will be art. And go-go dancing. And queer literature. And a pamphlet about the common misconceptions about being genderqueer. It’s going to be magical.

Vanessa —

Jan 28, 2013

eve ensler

gender identity

theater

Actor Emily Grosland, On ‘Emotional Creatures’ and Being Genderqueer in Theater: The Autostraddle Interview

Jess chats with the genderqueer star of Eve Ensler’s new play, Emotional Creature: talented dancer, singer and actor, Emily Grosland.

Jess —

Dec 19, 2012