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• Prop 8 Rage (Not what you think…)

  These people are getting me really fucking heated up in this place. Prop 8 passed, but that is not why I am pissed off at this moment. If you haven’t been reading blogs (Feministe) and message boards (Afterellen, butch-femme.com) all day like I have, then you probably haven’t noticed that some (white) queers are placing [...]

  Posted on Nov 06.08 to rants, the real world   

• Part III: Who Needs Butch-Femme?

  Part II
  I believe the sayings: “we don’t ‘need’ butch-femme anymore,” “it’s not the 1950s anymore,” to be a privileged/middle class narrative. Especially if we look at the history as recorded in Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold. Gay communities, particularly in the late ’50s, became violently defensive of butch-femme spaces. This was a culmination of [...]

  Posted on Oct 29.08 to Butch, Femme   

• Part II: Class/Gender Stereotypes

  Part I
  I’d like to do a short reading of The L Word. The L Word presents nearly exclusively white, middle-class, lesbians in Los Angeles. None of the characters on the show have ID’d as either butch or femme, except for in two isolated cases.
  The first being the butch/transman Moira/Max. Max is Jenny’s tomboy friend from [...]

  Posted on Oct 28.08 to Butch, Femme   

• Part I: Social Class and Butch-Femme

  So a study
  “Social class as a correlate of gender identity among lesbian women”
  got me to thinking…
  It’s interesting to see that social class seems to correlate with whether someone ID’s as butch or femme. If we take it back to the earliest days of the butch-femme dynamic being recorded, it has always been the working class [...]

  Posted on Oct 27.08 to Butch, Femme