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Thank The 50’s For Your Underpinnings (And Other Fashion Freedoms)

It’s because of the real-life women who took enormous risks to their personal safety, and who physically fought to wear whatever undies, clothing and footwear they damn well pleased that we can have...

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Butch Please: Butch Gets Dressed

I want to talk about shape-shifting, and clothing, and being a butch who wears things, because so much of butchness is tied up in the things we put on our body.

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Butch Please: Butch With A Side Of Misogyny

"It's easy for us to say that we don't participate in the patriarchy because we are women, or because we have been women, that we have known what it's like to be objectified, oppressed, fetishized. The...

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Butch Please: Butch in the Bathroom

She looked me up and down, shook her head like she was clearing her ears, and then turned to check the sign on the door. Ah, I thought.

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Butch Please: Butch and Boundaries

Why is it that time and time again, people act like they can’t make me uncomfortable? That as a butch -- as well as a queer person, a top, someone who likes to flirt and be sexual just like most human...

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Butch Please: Butch Gets Intimate

Is there a space within sex positivity for those of us who feel uncomfortable doing what sex positivism seems to ask of us?

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Straddler On The Street: PJ

"Being butch is something I have both been my entire life and something that I have chosen."

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Straddler On The Street: Aimée

Aimée talks about her femme identity, what it's like to have lupus, and the cultural differences between the United States and Ireland.

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BUTCH Voices 2013: Butch Gets a Press Pass

Every two years the butches of the world convene to absorb each other's butch powers.

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Fat-Booty Butch Wears Leggings — Confuses World, Confronts Self

"Form-fitting feels different than tailored and my form is something I'm super protective of — so why the fuck did I decide to wear leggings today?"

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Also.Also.Also: Dolores Huerta is Fighting Street Harassment with Poetry and...

People all over the world are mobilizing to end street harassment, fight for sustainable food, address discrimination, and secure better representation in media.

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HuffPost Live Talked To Some of Your Favorite Butches and Femmes About...

Butche-Femme FaceOff sounds like the lesbian sequel to that insane John Travolta movie from the 90s. This isn't that. It's a discussion between badass queers on privilege and presentation. (I'd watch...

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A Queer African Tale: On Trauma, Gender Transitions and Acceptance

"Dating broken white women became a way to reprise a powerlessness that years of sexual abuse and generations of blackphobia had tricked me into believing in. I drowned this feeling of powerlessness in...

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Also.Also.Also: Menstruating While Religious and Other Stories You Need Today

An article titled "Brew Tang Clan", bees, headbanging, vegetarian fast food, sciency women on the $10, OITNB IRL, two separate pieces on menstruation (you're welcome), yogurt and lesbians pissing off...

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22 Stunning Queer Photography Projects Showcasing LGBT Community Diversity

Same-sex couples, butch and femme identities, queer youth speaking out, gay life in Japan, LGBT athletes and so many more projects from incredible photographers looking to give visibility to a...

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Butch Please: Butch Gets Dressed

I want to talk about shape-shifting, and clothing, and being a butch who wears things, because so much of butchness is tied up in the things we put on our body. The post Butch Please: Butch Gets...

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With Gratitude and Struggle: Loving Butch/Femme as a Trans Woman

"Butch/Femme is important to me because butches and femmes writing and discussing what it meant to be who we are shaped my understanding of myself and how I can show up in the world."

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Neither Here Nor There: A BUTCH FEMME Photo Essay

I don’t want to be pigeonholed into a specific category or subject; I want to be seen as everything and nothing. I want to be seen as authentically myself, and to push myself to fully experiment with...

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Butch Please: Butch in the Bathroom

She looked me up and down, shook her head like she was clearing her ears, and then turned to check the sign on the door. Ah, I thought. The post Butch Please: Butch in the Bathroom appeared first on...

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Butch Please: Butch and Boundaries

Why is it that time and time again, people act like they can’t make me uncomfortable? That as a butch -- as well as a queer person, a top, someone who likes to flirt and be sexual just like most human...

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