Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme

The Anthology

About the book

In 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."

Questions? Butch queries answered. Femme dilemmas solved.

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July 2, 2011

Happy International Femme Appreciation day from Persistence!

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swooning and crying…and crying….and swooning…..
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I forgot how wonderful this is. Ivan is awesome.
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um this was seriously beautiful.
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this makes me cry, every time! as a femme who loves, adores and idolizes a Butch.. this pulls at every single string in...
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for all the lovely femmes out there….
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I’ve never heard of femme appreciation
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i’ve blogged this before, but i continue to lovelovelove it. so here, enjoy it again! (also go buy a copy of persistence...
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