Top Five Things I Heard When I Started Presenting As Butch
4. You were so much prettier with long hair.
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Trends This Butch Is Loving: Jogger Pants
Make a note on the back of your hand or the back of your girlfriend’s hand or write this on your cat for all I care: Jogger pants. Jogger pants are the future.
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.”
Also.Also.Also: Flipping the Bird to Every Member of the GOP in a Custom Lesbian Wedding Dress and Other Stories We Missed This Week
When you’re gettin’ married / To another chick / Who you gonna call?
Fat-Booty Butch Wears Leggings — Confuses World, Confronts Self
“Form-fitting feels different than tailored and my form is something I’m super protective of — so why the fuck did I decide to wear leggings today?”
Butch Glam: Let’s Broaden What “Black” In Relation to “Female” Can Mean
I am not crazy; I am simply black, and queer, and butch, and transcultural, and therefore alone.
BUTCH Voices 2013: Butch Gets a Press Pass
Every two years the butches of the world convene to absorb each other’s butch powers.
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.