Boston’s Madfemmepride has a book club. They...

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."

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August 2, 2011

Boston’s Madfemmepride has a book club. They recently read Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (and sent us the photo to prove it!). We hope to meet all those smiling faces one day when we come to Boston.

Is your book club reading Persistence? If it is, we’d love to hear about it. Did the book spark any interesting discussions? Reveal any femme or butch discoveries? Send your photos and your book club tales to persistence.anthology@gmail.com

Ivan and Zena xo