Recs if you like Butch Is a Noun...
Butches In Literature
Another resource for those looking for butches in books.
Disclaimer: I do not necessarily recommend all of these books. Please check out my page for reviews of the ones Iβve read!
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Lesbian History, Politics, Culture & Identity
β online discourse, βοΈ holistic knowledge fiction & non-fiction that will deepen your understanding of sapphism, its language/label evolution, and its intersections with bipoc, gender diversity and bisexuality. (please note βlesbianβ terminology was originally an expansive umbrella openly inclusive of fluid sapphics when many books were published, and not all identify as specifically/exclusively wlw!)
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Trans & Queer Nonfiction
memoirs, anthologies, graphic novels etc. - anything goes as long as it's nonfiction about the trans & queer experience
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From Masc to Butch: Essential Butch Reading
Welcome to Butch Lesbianism 101 Send this list to a TikTok masc in your life and watch a literate butch be born.
In all seriousness, this list started as a joke but then turned serious when I realized there are still a ton of books that feel like essential butch reading to me that I still need to get to!! Iβm trying to prioritize nonfiction here (with some exceptions)! Check out my other lists for fiction recs with butches π§‘
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butch lit
stone butch blues is not the only book about butches!!!!
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Critical Feminism
An alternative to "feminine rage" and "women's wrongs"
Nuanced, intersectional approaches to gender theory
Looking for transfeminine and nonbinary specific recommendations
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different genres with grown lesbians
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lgbtq+ nonfiction + memoirs
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