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Showcasing 123 butches--from trans butches to classic butches, from butches who identify as women to those who identify as men--the photographer, a self-identified "butch hapa queer chick," memorializes the butch not only for posterity but also to illustrate that the butch is very much alive and well in the 21st century.

I'm a proud celesbian thanks to my graphic novel "100 Butches".

Long ago my best friend and I decided that "butch and femme" really didn't tell us enough--that actually all relationships could be understood by asking, "Which one is the mommy and which one is the baby?" (No offense, butches, but when you break it down this way, you know where you usually end up.) Then we decided to take it one step further and say that all relationships can be broken down into dingo/ baby.

"The radical icons of our liberation are being erased--the drag queens, the stone butches, the trannie boyz and girlz.

In fact, twelve ads (three percent) explicitly included a request for "no butches."

As I will argue later in this article, this same butch who is so closely aligned with the idea of lesbianism is curiously absent from cultural representation; in mainstream images and discourses of lesbianism in the 1990s, there are few butches to be found.

During the period covered in this study (1940 to 1960), women who wanted to be part of the women-loving community had to choose between being butch, and hence adopting certain hypermasculine behaviours, or else being a fem and having to constantly defer to butches. This study shows that many of the women felt this to be unnecessarily restrictive: a good number changed roles depending on the situation, and some dressed butch but acted fem or viceversa.

153); occasional unsupported generalizations ("Most butches were mimics who had mastered the subtleties of masculine nonverbal communication," p.

According to Kennedy and Davis, the rough, tough bar "butches" and the gutsy "fems" they courted were "brazen rebels against injustice" who insisted on the public assertion of lesbian identity.

Her partner just turned 49 and Cordova is acutely aware that growing older is different for femmes than it is for butches. She thinks femmes are made to feel less lesbian because of their appearance and looks, when they are actually fighting a different kind of homophobia, in the workplace and beyond.

Filmmaker Daniel Peddle's scrappy and astute group portrait of a half dozen New York City butches of color is a low-budget, five-year overview of their lives and loves that takes in the underground "ball" scene (a la Paris Is Burning) and explores the phenomenon of the "aggressive" identity.

Last month, when I hunkered down in my hurricane cellar waiting for the emotional storm to pass, I began to wonder about the other butches who share my suffering, and if there just might be a better way for us to handle this regular dose of femininity.