Named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association
Lambda Literary Award finalist
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 todayâ??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.
Now in its second printing
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Table of Contents
- Contents 7
- Joan Nestle 7
- Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman 7
- Anna Camilleri 7
- Kimberly Dark 7
- Miriam Zoila Pérez 7
- Anne Fleming 7
- Karleen Pendleton Jiménez 7
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 7
- Jewelle Gomez 7
- Zena Sharman 7
- Ivan E. Coyote 7
- Amber Dawn 7
- 103 7
- S. Bear Bergman 7
- 107 7
- Brenda Barnes 7
- 113 7
- Nairne Holtz 7
- 118 7
- Laiwan 7
- 125 7
- 127 7
- 137 7
- 149 8
- 154 8
- Chandra Mayor 8
- 166 8
- Donnelly Black 8
- 176 8
- Redwolf Painter 8
- 180 8
- Sinclair Sexsmith 8
- 189 8
- Belinda Carroll 8
- 192 8
- Zoe Whittall 8
- 205 8
- Elizabeth Marston 8
- 209 8
- Amy Fox 8
- 218 8
- Jeanne Córdova 8
- 232 8
- Rae Spoon 8
- 239 8
- Elaine Miller 8
- 245 8
- Thea Hillman 8
- 248 8
- Bevin Branlandingham 8
- 253 8
- Sailor Holladay 8
- 259 8
- Melissa Sky 8
- 265 8
- 276 8
- Ben McCoy 8
- 286 8
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 8
- 292 8
- Michael V. Smith 8
- 300 8
- Debra Anderson 8
- 310 8
- Ivan E. Coyote 8
- Forward 9
- Foreword by Joan Nestle 9
- New Fem TerriTories 19
- AckNowledgmeNTs 22
- Introduction 23
- Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman 23
- Ride 27
- Anna Camilleri 27
- My First Lover Was Not a Lesbian 31
- Kimberly Dark 31
- Coming Back Around to Butch 37
- Miriam Zoila Pérez 37
- A Dad Called Mum 43
- Anne Fleming 43
- A Beautiful Creature 53
- Karleen Pendleton Jiménez 53
- Never Be Hungry Again 63
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 63
- Femme Butch Feminist 67
- Jewelle Gomez 67
- HomeSickness Self Diagnosis 79
- Looking Straight at You 85
- Zena Sharman 85
- A Butch Roadmap 92
- Ivan E. Coyote 92
- To All the Butches I Loved Between 1995 and 2005 95
- An Open Letter about Selling Sex Selling Out and Soldiering On 95
- Amber Dawn 95
- Brother Dog 103
- S. Bear Bergman 103
- Butch is How I Feel 107
- Brenda Barnes 107
- Slide Rules 113
- Nairne Holtz 113
- Embodying Hunger and Desire with a Fistful of Bliss 118
- Laiwan 118
- Between My Fingers 125
- Stacey Milbern 125
- Masculine of Centre Seeks Her Refined Femme 127
- B. Cole 127
- No Butches No Femmes 137
- The Mainstreaming of Queer Sexuality 137
- Victoria A. Brownworth 137
- What We Know to Be True 149
- Sasha T. Goldberg 149
- Me Simone and Dot 154
- Chandra Mayor 154
- For Annie B. 191581 166
- Donnelly Black 166
- The FlighT oF The womANmAN 171
- Split Myself Apart 176
- Redwolf Painter 176
- With Both Fists 180
- Conscious Gender Building through the Butch and Femme Identities 180
- Sinclair Sexsmith 180
- A Guide to Getting Laid by a Girl in Lipstick and High Heels 189
- Belinda Carroll 189
- A Patch of Bright Flowers 192
- Zoe Whittall 192
- Rogue Femininity 205
- Elizabeth Marston 205
- Changed Sex. Grew Boobs. Started Wearing a Tie. 209
- Amy Fox 209
- Femme TrAil guides 211
- The New Politics of Butch 218
- Jeanne Córdova 218
- The TrANs chAlleNge 220
- TowArd A FemiNisT uNdersTANdiNg oF buTch 220
- The Former meANiNg oF buTch 222
- The New meANiNg oF buTch butch 225
- A PosT-TrANs buTch coNTiNuum 226
- Femme Cowboy 232
- Rae Spoon 232
- Futch 239
- Thoughts from the Borderlands 239
- Elaine Miller 239
- Butch-Femme as Spiritual Practice 245
- Thea Hillman 245
- Rethinking High Maintenance 248
- The Queer Fat Femme Guide to Not Blaming It on the Fact That You Dont Like High Femmes 248
- Bevin Branlandingham 248
- 38 B 253
- Sailor Holladay 253
- Melissa Sky 259
- Female Masculinity Male Femininity Feminine Masculinity Masculine Femininity 265
- Prince Jei and Misster Raju Rage 265
- Backstage with Lady Gaga 276
- Ben McCoy 276
- FEMME SHARK MANIFESTo 286
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 286
- A Failed Man 292
- Michael V. Smith 292
- Spotlight 300
- Debra Anderson 300
- Hats off 310
- Ivan E. Coyote 310
