Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
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Overview
American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book
In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories defy reductive stereotypes and inflexible categories. The pages in this book describe the lives of an incredible diversity of people whose hearts also pounded for some reason the first time they read or heard the words "butch" or "femme."
Contributors such as Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories), Thea Hillman (Intersex), S. Bear Bergman (Butch is a Noun), Chandra Mayor (All the Pretty Girls), Amber Dawn (Sub Rosa), Anna Camilleri (Brazen Femme), Debra Anderson (Code White), Anne Fleming (Anomaly), Michael V. Smith (Cumberland), and Zoe Whittall (Bottle Rocket Hearts) explore the parameters, history, and power of a multitude of butch and femme realities. It's a raucous, insightful, sexy, and sometimes dangerous look at what the words butch and femme can mean in today’s ever-shifting gender landscape, with one eye on the past and the other on what is to come.
Includes a foreword by Joan Nestle, renowned femme author and editor of The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, a landmark anthology originally published in 1992.
Ivan E. Coyote is the author of seven books (including the novel Bow Grip, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book) and a long-time muser on the trappings of the two-party gender system.
Zena Sharman is the assistant director of Canada's national Institute of Gender and Health.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781551523972 |
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| Publisher: | Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited |
| Publication date: | 05/03/2011 |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Zena Sharman: Zena Sharman is a queer femme who works in gender and health research and is in the midst of completing her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Table of Contents
Forward! Joan Nestle 09
Acknowledgments 22
Introduction Ivan E. Coyote Zena Sharman 23
Ride Anna Camilleri 27
My First Lover Was Not a Lesbian Kimberly Dark 31
Coming Back Around to Butch Miriam Zoila Pérez 37
A Dad Called Mum Anne Fleming 43
A Beautiful Creature Karleen Pendleton Jiménez 53
Never Be Hungry Again Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 63
Femme Butch Feminist Jewelle Gomez 67
Home/Sickness: Self-Diagnosis romham padraig gallacher 79
Looking Straight at You Zena Sharman 85
A Butch Roadmap Ivan E. Coyote 92
To All the Butches I Loved Between 1995 and 2005: An Open Letter about Selling Sex, Selling Out, and Soldiering On Amber Dawn 95
Brother Dog S. Bear Bergman 103
Butch Is How I Feel Brenda Barnes 107
Slide Rules Nairne Holtz 113
Embodying Hunger and Desire with a Fistful of Bliss Laiwan 118
Between My Fingers Stacey Milbern 125
Masculine of Centre, Seeks Her Refined Femme B. Cole 127
No Butches, No Femmes: The Mainstreaming of Queer Sexuality Victoria A. Brownworth 137
What We Know to Be True Sasha T. Goldberg 149
Me, Simone, and Dot Chandra Mayor 154
For Annie B. (1915-81) Donnelly Black 166
Split Myself Apart Redwolf Painter 176
With Both Fists: Conscious Gender Building through the Butch and Femme Identities Sinclair Sexsmith 180
A Guide to Getting Laid by a Girl in Lipstick and High Heels Belinda Carroll 189
A Patch of Bright Flowers Zoe Whittall 192
Rogue Femininity Elizabeth Marston 205
Changed Sex. Grew Boobs. Started Wearing a Tie. Amy Fox 209
The New Politics of Butch Jeanne Córdova 218
Femme Cowboy Rae Spoon 232
Futch: Thoughts from the Borderlands Elaine Miller 239
Butch-Femme as Spiritual Practice Thea Hillman 245
Rethinking High Maintenance: The Queer Fat Femme Guide to Not Blaming It on the Fact That You Don't Like High Femmes Bevin Branlandingham 248
38 B Sailor Holladay 253
baby butch: a love letter from the future Melissa Sky 259
Female Masculinity, Male Femininity, Feminine Masculinity, Masculine Femininity …? Prince Jei Misster Raju Rage 265
Backstage with Lady Gaga Ben McCoy 276
Femme Shark Manifesto! Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 286
A Failed Man Michael V. Smith 292
Spotlight Debra Anderson 300
Hats Off Ivan E. Coyote 310