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Autostraddle Gift Guide : Soft Butch
Society + Culture

Gift Guide: For the Soft Butch Who’s Hard to Shop For

“Look good and cool while going anywhere” should be the soft butch motto, probably.

By Molly Priddy| November 30, 2017 | 13 Comments
Visual Art

“BUTCH”: Photographer Meg Allen On Her Kickass Documentation of an Evolving Community

“There are a lot of butches out there still. More than ever. And in a larger variety than ever. And that is what my project depicts, in style, body, race and gender non-conformity.”

By Priya| August 24, 2017 | 17 Comments
Gender

Masculine-of-Center Roundtable: How We Do It and What It Means To Us

“To me, being masculine-of-center means boyishness, it means blurring gender lines, it means a more vulnerable and delicate form of masculinity. It gives me the freedom to not fulfill expectations based on my assigned gender and body.”

By the team| August 21, 2017 | 57 Comments
Herstory

41 Super-Hot Butches and Tomboys of the Early 20th Century

Just a little vintage eye candy for you.

By Riese| August 15, 2017 | 76 Comments
Fashion/Style

Five Skincare and Grooming Products for Masculine of Center Folks

Masculine of center people are often left out of conversations about skincare, but we all deserve to feel good and comfortable in our skin.

By Kit| July 27, 2017 | 50 Comments
Books Herstory

Fill In Your Butch History With This Coloring Book

Why learn about butch lesbian herstory when you can learn about butch lesbian herstory by way of babes?

By Carolyn Yates| July 18, 2017 | 10 Comments
Advice

You Need Help: My Mom Supports My Bisexuality, but Not My Butchness

Kristin of Everyone Is Gay and My Kid Is Gay gives advice for a 16-year-old and her mom trying to deal with coming out as bisexual and gender nonconforming!

By Kristin| April 20, 2017 | 25 Comments
Sex + Relationships

View From The Top: Topping While Butch

It took me years to settle into the idea that masculinity and topping were actually, authentically my identities.

By Sinclair Sexsmith| March 14, 2017 | 8 Comments
Fashion/Style

Autostraddle + Sorte: A Merch Match Made In Heaven

We’re collaborating with Venezuelan design and clothing company Sorte Tienda to bring handmade, screenprinted, and very queer t-shirts into your life.

By Adrian| September 21, 2016 | 10 Comments
Books

Read A F*cking Book: M-E Girard’s Novel “Girl Mans Up” Powerfully Explores Minefields of Gender

“Girard’s writing is special in the way it speaks the language of our lived experience of moving through and within gender — inching, painfully slow, changeable, delightful, sexy, and made manifest in a thousand tiny ways, often between people and between words, unspoken.”

By Emma Eisenberg| September 8, 2016 | 7 Comments
First Person

How Endometriosis Helped Me Become a Tenderhearted Butch

“Instead of getting medical care, I had a work colleague help me to my hotel room and pour me a tumbler of whiskey. I downed the whiskey with a handful of aspirin and prayed for the pain to stop.”

By Jules| August 31, 2016 | 23 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Queer, Andro and Butch Women of the 1930s and Other Stories for Your Experience

Happy Monday, you majestic bursts!

By Laneia| July 4, 2016 | 11 Comments
Society + Culture

Top 10 Stud and Butch Crushes of 2015

In 2015 we’ve met or got reacquainted with some extremely hot masculine-of-center women or otherwise identified queers. Here’s 10 sexy studs worth swooning over.

By Lyn| December 23, 2015 | 39 Comments
Politics + Activism

Donald Trump’s Rosie O’Donnell Jab Wasn’t Just Sexist, It Was Homophobic, Too

In Donald Trump’s world, women without “normative” gender presentations are fat slobs and “traditionally attractive” women are bimbos and idiots.

By Riese| August 8, 2015 | 48 Comments
Film

“The Same Difference” Breaks Down All The “Rules” of Being Butch

The Same Difference takes the lid off of the many boxes that we as a community put ourselves into in respect to gender.

By Carolyn Wysinger| July 20, 2015 | 43 Comments
Fashion/Style

Butchbaby & Co. Brings Maternity Wear Out of the Women’s Section

Their philosophy is one of the best I’ve ever heard: “Don’t change just because your body does.”

By Kaitlyn| December 20, 2014 | 11 Comments
First Person Gender

How Leslie Feinberg Changed Our Lives: The Autostraddle Roundtable

“I could feel the power that came from being butch, the paradox of growing up a girl and then becoming the suited partner of a beautiful woman, the torture of being such a social outcast, and the deep craving hunger for being accepted.”

By the team| November 26, 2014 | 21 Comments
Politics + Activism

Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Lesbian, Activist, Author, and Revolutionary Dies at 65

Leslie Feinberg died at home in Syracuse, NY, with hir partner and spouse of 22 years, Minnie Bruce Pratt, at hir side. Hir last words were: “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.”

By KaeLyn| November 17, 2014 | 40 Comments
Fashion/Style

dapperQ’s 100 Most Stylish Features Your Favorite Heartthrobs: Hannah Hart, Ari Fitz and More!

dapperQ just came out with their second list of 100 most stylish individuals, and boy, does it deliver on the dapper!

By Mey| June 24, 2014 | 4 Comments
First Person

Fat-Booty Butch Buys A Suit On A Budget

There are moments when if we can, we want to wear the articles of clothing that bring us close to joy. My suit isn’t that thing, not yet, but it did bring me closer to feeling sane and on top of this thing called adulthood.

By gabby| June 17, 2014 | 75 Comments
First Person

Top Five Things I Heard When I Started Presenting As Butch

4. You were so much prettier with long hair.

By Kate| March 7, 2014 | 57 Comments
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