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Lambda Literary Award finalistAmerican Library Association Stonewall Honor BookIn 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 Contributors such as Jewelle Gomez The Gilda Stories , Thea Hillman Intersex , S Bear Bergman Butch is a Noun , Chandra Mayor All the Pretty Girls , Amber Dawn Sub Rosa , Anna Camilleri Brazen Femme , Debra Anderson Code White , Anne Fleming Anomaly , Michael V Smith Cumberland , and Zoe Whittall Bottle Rocket Hearts explore the parameters, history, and power of a multitude of butch and femme realities It s a raucous, insightful, sexy, and sometimes dangerous look at what the words butch and femme can mean in today s ever shifting gender landscape, with one eye on the past and the other on what is to come.Includes a foreword by Joan Nestle, renowned femme author and editor of The Persistent Desire A Femme Butch Reader, a landmark anthology originally published in 1992.Ivan E Coyote is the author of seven books including the novel Bow Grip, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book and a long time muser on the trappings of the two party gender system.Zena Sharman is the assistant director of Canada s national Institute of Gender and Health. Download Persistence author Ivan E. Coyote – kino-fada.fr I would say about 25% of the essays I really liked, 50% were forgettable, and 25% made me extremely uncomfortable Things that I loved reading about different kinds of gender expression and gendered desire Things I didn t like oppression Olympics, the who ...I don t mean to be completely negative there are a couple of good contributions there are a couple trans woman it isn t all white people but mostly it s boring and repetitive and not very insightful observations about gender it dwells mainly on fond FA lesbian memories of love and gender feels, some half assed mostly butch attempts at being all it s ok to be femme it s honourable or something there s the writer who quotes obama and insinuates that trans women are inherently masculine bu I don t mean to be completely negative there ar...This is an anthology of writings on femme, butch, andIt looks at how these identities have evolved and what they mean to individuals With an excellent forward by Joan Nestle and two fantastic editors Zena Sharman and Ivan E Coyote I was very excited for this anthology As a young person in Vancouver, Coyote s novels represented an universe I dreamed of accessing I remembered the euphoria at seeing how my high school librarians loved them However, it took me this long to finally pick This is an anthology of writings on femme, butch, andIt looks at how these identities have evolved and what they me...There were a small handful of essays that I really loved andthat actually made me pretty uncomfortable or angry, like the ones that argued that cis women femmes are straight passing or that butches and femme men are the only people transgressing gender.with something so heavily theorized, it s nice to get personal narratives but then, personal narratives can also be just as grating, self indulgent, and or obnoxious as theory sometimes I liked a handful of these essays Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha is a wonderful, powerful, smart writer Victoria Brownworth s commentary on how lesbian identities in the mainstream are being so straightwashed, and the forcing of lesbians to be viewed as sexually available to men, is extremely important I a with something so heavily theorized, it s nice to get personal narratives but then, personal narr...brilliant anthology this collection of personal stories is thoughtful, relevant, insightful and frequently powerful anyone interested in gender studies will find a goldmine of valuable material in this book my one criticism is the same criticism i have for most gender studies books where the heck are the bisexuals in only a small selection of these essays is bisexuality mentioned or addressed i valued those essays that muchfor including us on the whole, however, this book is incredi brilliant anthology this collection of personal stories is thoughtful, relevant, insightful and frequently powerful anyone interested in gender studies will find...Actual rating 2.5 2.7, maybeI always like to think about what audience the author had in mind when I m reading something, whether it be a short story, essay, or full length novel While reading this, I struggled with that question.I identify as a non binary gay person, queer when I m feeling extra radical, and I identified with a couple of the stories in this, especially the first few shoutout to Home Sickness Self Diagnosis by romham padraig gallacher But as I kept reading, they begu Actual rating 2.5 2.7, maybeI always like to think about what audience the author had in mind when I m reading something, whether it be a short story, essay, or full length novel While reading this, I struggled with that question.I identify as a non binary gay person, queer when I m feeling extra radical, and I identified with a couple of the stories in this, especially the first few shoutout to Home Sickness Self Diagnosis by romham padraig gallacher But as I kept reading, they begun to feelfor lack of a better word, basic By that I mean that a lot of the pieces started feeling repetitive, and some seemed like they were written for people who had never had a conversation with a le...This thick collection of essays and manifestoes, with some poems, short fiction and brief autobiographies mixed in, is a current report on the diversity of queer gender identities in the twenty first century Its title is similar to that of an earlier book, The Persistent Desire A Femme Butch Reader, originally published in 1992 Joan Nestle, a legendary femme writer who remembers the early Gay Rights movement, edited the first anthology As she says in the foreword to the current book When Iv This thick collection of essays and manifestoes, with some poems, short fiction and brief autobiographies mixed in, is a current report on the diversity of queer gender identities in the twenty first century Its title is similar to that of an earlier book, The Persistent Desire A Femme Butch Reader, originally published in 1992 Joan Nestle, a lege...Picked up a copy of this at my friend Dave s house in Santa Barbara never met the roommate who it belonged to A mix of stories, analysis, stories as analysis, some very good, some much less so The personal is political, etc.Super hit or miss Some gross gender politics TERFy things, bizarrely essentialist things , some crappy, meandering writing Also, and this is the strangest part for me personally, I m in the book as a character referred to as S in someone s essay about their gender development Very strange...

Persistence
  • English
  • 19 July 2018
  • Paperback
  • 256 pages
  • 1551523973
  • Ivan E. Coyote
  • Persistence