Persistence: all ways butch and femme

Forward! / Joan Nestle

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Ivan E. Coyote / Zena Sharman

Ride / Anna Camilleri

My First Lover Was Not a Lesbian / Kimberly Dark

Coming Back Around to Butch / Miriam Zoila Pérez

A Dad Called Mum / Anne Fleming

A Beautiful Creature / Karleen Pendleton Jiménez

Never Be Hungry Again / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Femme Butch Feminist / Jewelle Gomez

Home/Sickness: Self-Diagnosis / romham padraig gallacher

Looking Straight at You / Zena Sharman

A Butch Roadmap / Ivan E. Coyote

To All the Butches I Loved Between 1995 and 2005: An Open Letter about Selling Sex, Selling Out, and Soldiering On / Amber Dawn

Brother Dog / S. Bear Bergman

Butch Is How I Feel / Brenda Barnes

Slide Rules / Nairne Holtz

Embodying Hunger and Desire with a Fistful of Bliss / Laiwan

Between My Fingers / Stacey Milbern

Masculine of Centre, Seeks Her Refined Femme / B. Cole

No Butches, No Femmes: The Mainstreaming of Queer Sexuality / Victoria A. Brownworth

What We Know to Be True / Sasha T. Goldberg

Me, Simone, and Dot / Chandra Mayor

For Annie B. (1915-81) / Donnelly Black

Split Myself Apart / Redwolf Painter

With Both Fists: Conscious Gender Building through the Butch and Femme Identities / Sinclair Sexsmith

A Guide to Getting Laid by a Girl in Lipstick and High Heels / Belinda Carroll

A Patch of Bright Flowers / Zoe Whittall

Rogue Femininity / Elizabeth Marston

Changed Sex. Grew Boobs. Started Wearing a Tie. / Amy Fox

The New Politics of Butch / Jeanne Córdova

Femme Cowboy / Rae Spoon

Futch: Thoughts from the Borderlands / Elaine Miller

Butch-Femme as Spiritual Practice / Thea Hillman

Rethinking High Maintenance: The Queer Fat Femme Guide to Not Blaming It on the Fact That You Don't Like High Femmes / Bevin Branlandingham

38 B / Sailor Holladay

baby butch: a love letter from the future / Melissa Sky

Female Masculinity, Male Femininity, Feminine Masculinity, Masculine Femininity …? / Prince Jei / Misster Raju Rage

Backstage with Lady Gaga / Ben McCoy

Femme Shark Manifesto! / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

A Failed Man / Michael V. Smith

Spotlight / Debra Anderson

Hats Off / Ivan E. Coyote