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Butch Slut
In the pool hall, my sweetheart and a close friend tease me one night: “unimpressive,” “pure luck,” “you aren’t that good.” They were trying to get my ire up so that an hour later when I told them to stare into each other’s eyes as I fucked my sweetheart’s body, I would mean it with a snarky competitive vengeance, I would mean it with power and control, I would be pushed to take what I want.
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Jeanne Córdova Dies At 67: Goodbye to the Activist and Writer Who Lead The Way We’re Going
“We built a movement by telling each other our lives and thoughts about the way life should be. We cut against the grain and re-thought almost everything. “
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Dapper Brunch Style Served Six Different Ways
The term “brunch style” does not automatically imply a specific level of formality. My suggestions would depend on the occasion (Meet the parents brunch? Wedding brunch? Date brunch? Hungover with your friends brunch? Autostraddler meet-up brunch? Hip-hop party brunch?) and the venue (Five star restaurant? Pub? Trendy café?).
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Top Five Things I Heard When I Started Presenting As Butch
4. You were so much prettier with long hair.
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Big Queer Pimples, or How I Learned to Love (or Tolerate) My Acne
“When the doctor said that such and such a treatment was linked to health problems later in life, I didn’t even blink. I’ll hit 50 and keel over? Fine, I don’t care, get rid of these fucking pimples.”
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BUTCH Voices 2013: Butch Gets a Press Pass
Every two years the butches of the world convene to absorb each other’s butch powers.
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Style Thief: How to Dress Like Esther Quek
Grab your shades, your suit and all the style you can muster. We’re stripping down Esther Quek.
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Feeling Dandy About Being Dapper
“I shouldn’t have to “reclaim” my dapper style. It was all of ours to begin with.” Two essays on dapper from Anita Dolce Vita and Blakeley Calhoun.
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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 battleaxe, and I need you to know that it’s five times as difficult to earn and ten million times more dangerous.
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Butch Please: Butch and Her Boys
An open letter to all the male icons I have consciously (or subconsciously) based my butchness upon over the years.
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Boots For Your Masculine-of-Center Feet
With winter making it’s way towards us faster than ever, it’s time to figure out how you’re going to keep your feet stylish and warm this year.
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The Style Manual: Fashion Council to the Rescue
The experts are here to share the tips of the trade.
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He Said/We Said Brings Queer Sartorial Smarts To The Ivies
This time, the handsome models take on the country’s top universities and honey BBQ cheetos.
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Queer Your Wedding Wardrobe: The Fashion Doctor Is In
Our three wonderstylists will have you feeling good, looking gorgeous.
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Read a F*cking Book Review – “Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme”
WE’RE YOUR BEST GIRLFRIEND AND YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE
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Queer Your Wedding Wardrobe: Finding Your MOC-Style & Dressing in Dresses
On being brave when all you feel is panic and bringing out your inner superhero when your sig oth starts freaking out.
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Six Ways that 1950s Butches and Femmes F*cked with Society, Were Badass
“Butches & Femmes paved the way for tons of fantastic lesbians, radical queers, revolutionary feminists, and really awful (and awesome) hairstyles that came after them.”
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Superstars of Butch Voices LA 2010: Nine or Ten We’d Like to “Know” For Sure
Butch Voices is this super awesome conference happening in LA this weekend, and Autostraddle thinks you should go. It’s all about unifying and discussing all the various rainbow of butch identities. Plus, there will be some super awesome people there. Seriously. Go.
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Judith Butler 101: One Is Not Born a Queer Theorist, One Becomes One
Did you wake up today feeling a little too sure that you understood the relationship between sex and gender? No fear, Autostraddle is here! Guest writer Julia is here to learn you all about Judith Butler, and to make you feel smarter than you have all day.
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Policing Female Masculinity: Much Ado About Rachel Maddow’s Yearbook Photo!
Rachel Maddow had long hair once. That’s right. You’ve seen the yearbook photo — she used to look like a Real Woman! (so says Senator Vitter). I’d tap that! (So says Buzzfeed). Whoa, y’all have some serious gender trouble going on. (Says us).