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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September 14, 2011

Do not give your butch friend a hard time about having a ponytail, a Pekinese/Pomeranian cross, nail polish, or even a Smart Car. Get over yourself. You are a rare species, not a stereotype.

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Ivan E. Coyote, “A Butch Roadmap,” in Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (can I also say I’ve laughed out loud a few times while reading this book?)

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January 23, 2011

This is a video of Ivan performing A Butch Roadmap. The text of this story is included in Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, one of many pieces in the book that explore the diversity of butch identities and experiences.

There’s no single route to butch or femme. We hope that Persistence inspires you to draw roadmaps of your own.

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January 18, 2011

Co-editor Ivan E. Coyote performs an ode to femmes. This piece will be included in the anthology, along with much more amazing writing by and in celebration of femmes.

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