Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (947 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1551523973 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. 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. It's a raucous, insightful, sexy, and sometimes dangerous look at what the words butch and femme can mean in today’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.Ivan E. Lambda Literary Award finalistAmerican Library Association Stonewall Honor BookIn the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo
Story Circle Book Reviews said Contemporary Gender Revolutionaries. In the summer of "Contemporary Gender Revolutionaries" according to Story Circle Book Reviews. In the summer of 2009, Ivan E. Coyote and her co-editor, Zena Sharman, set out to collect stories by their favorite queer authors. The result is Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, an edgy, sexy and poignant mix of genre, form and gender that defies labeling. The book's contributors have written fiction, essays complete with source references and poetry. It is the personal stories that are my favorites: particularly those of Ivan E. Coyote, Zena Sharman, Anne Fleming and Rae Spoon.Spoon's "Femme Cowboy" is a sensitively written piece that describes his upbring. 009, Ivan E. Coyote and her co-editor, Zena Sharman, set out to collect stories by their favorite queer authors. The result is Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, an edgy, sexy and poignant mix of genre, form and gender that defies labeling. The book's contributors have written fiction, essays complete with source references and poetry. It is the personal stories that are my favorites: particularly those of Ivan E. Coyote, Zena Sharman, Anne Fleming and Rae Spoon.Spoon's "Femme Cowboy" is a sensitively written piece that describes his upbring. Fabulous! I really had a great time reading this anthology. The essays are smart, thought-provoking, sexy, groundbreaking, and very well written. Certainly if you're interested in gender politics and LGBT issues, you will want this in your personal library. I can't tell you how refreshing it was to read a book that challenges sexual orientation and gender dichotomies that wasn't written in elitist postmodern academic jargon. Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick could learn a thing or two from this excellent book which proves that queer theory doesn't have to be dry or b. Favorite queer anthology Love love love this book on Canadian queer stories. Such a mix of gender-bending, queer experiences, from butch to femme to trans. My favorite queer anthology; you'll find yourself somewhere in these pages.
The book feels fresh and radical throughout." Lambda Literary"A new collection of essays exploring the funny, messy, confusing, contradictory, liberating, confining, wet wild ride of gender from a powerhouse cross-section of the queer world’s smartest and sexiest writers, poets, musicians, activists and scholars." Autostraddle"Touching on a wide range of colors in the prism of butch and femme sexuality and identity, this compilation is indispensable to the lesbian community as an emblem of how far the female gay community has come, and in what direction their mighty assembly is headed." Bay Area Reporter"A collection of pieces that refutes the idea that butch and femme identities are outdat