Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
Ivan Coyote, "Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme"
English | ISBN: 1551523973 | 2011 | 256 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1551523973 | 2011 | 256 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Lambda Literary Award finalist
American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book
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."
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