Posts Tagged ‘femmes are the best part of being butch (overheard
at bvpdx)’  Ten Ways I Am A Gender Outlaw  October 8, 2010  | 
on butches  |  14 Comments  Today is the last day on The Great
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation Blog Tour, and I’m closing
it out. Thanks, Kate and Bear. Thanks, Seal Press.  It’s a
fantastic book. I laughed, I cried. Would you expect anything
less?  There were a lot of pieces about trans experiences, not
as in one singular trans experience, but people writing about
their lives and what it’s been like to have the experience being
gendered like they are in the world. A few other pieces were by
cisgender femmes—but I have yet to read a piece in there talking
about butch experiences. Now, it is a book focusing on trans
identity, primarily, so maybe stories and essays about butch
experiences don’t even belong here. That’s okay, I don’t have to
see myself reflected in every single book about gender,
sometimes it might not fit.  But it got me thinking: what’s my
relationship to the term