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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Straddler On The Street: PJ
“Being butch is something I have both been my entire life and something that I have chosen.”
You Should Go: BUTCH Voices 2013
Butch Builds Community.
Butch Please: Butch is a Hairy Man-Hating Lesbian
I’m a hairy short-haired sonuffabitch in plaid and denim that by that boy’s definition, and so many other definitions I’ve heard, is considered by society to be one of “those ugly lesbians”. And honestly, I ain’t even mad.
Butch Please: Butch Seeking Butch (For Friendship)
Okay, I’ll say it: I have trouble making butch friends. Actually, I have trouble feeling like I am a part of the butch community, period.
The Aesthetics of Masculinity: Butch v. Tomboy Style
What does butch style really mean? What about tomboy fashion? Four queers give you their take on where the two differ and where they collide.
Butch Please: Butch Cuts Her Hair
Hair is a part of my queer ritual.
Butch Please: Butch Gets Intimate
Is there a space within sex positivity for those of us who feel uncomfortable doing what sex positivism seems to ask of us?
Lez Get Dressed For Work: The Working Bois Of Summer
Today I want to talk about how to dress for work when it’s super fucking hot outside and you don’t wear dresses.
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. I am glad these men see me as a threat.
Butch Please: Butch Goes Camping
Camp is family, after all.
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.
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 who likes to flirt and be sexual just like most human beings — it’s impossible to sexually harass me?
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.
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 to be objectified, oppressed, fetishized. The thing is that we queers can perpetuate rape culture just as much as the next frat boy…”
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 body.
How to Own It: Pocket Squares
Buy it or sew it, fold it, tuck it into your pocket. Just please don’t blow your nose in it.
Briefly Noted: Underwear for Your Masculine Center
What makes “men’s” underwear exclusively for men? Is it still men’s underwear if I’m wearing it? Answers: a) absolutely nothing and b) no, sir.
The dapperQ Underwear Survey Surveys Your Underwear Anxieties and Dreams
“I almost passed out the first time I bought boy undies. I wish that had been easier. I expected someone to shoot at me. Probably just refuse to sell to me, or laugh, really. But still. Racing heart, whole deal.”
Thank The 50’s For Your Underpinnings (And Other Fashion Freedoms)
It’s because of the real-life women who took enormous risks to their personal safety, and who physically fought to wear whatever undies, clothing and footwear they damn well pleased that we can have underwear week at all.