I Want Kisses Wtf

a non-exhaustive list of butch literature

a (very ad-hoc) list of butch reading and writing, (mostly) by butch authors. books I've read myself in bold; take the rest with a grain of salt. additions, addendums, and commentary welcome :)

(you can find my list of femme literature here)

general/literary fiction:

mrs s by k patrick

stone butch blues by leslie feinberg

boulder by eva baltasar

running fiercely towards a thin high sounds by judith katz

tipping the velvet by sarah waters

a crystal diary by frankie hucklenbroich

godspeed by lynn breedlove

cha-ching! by ali liebegott

the ihop papers by ali liebegott

greasepaint by hannah levene

lucy and mickey by red jordan arobateau

the bull-jean stories by sharon bridgforth

development by bryher

notes of a crocodile by qiu miaojin

america is not the heart by elaine castillo

the slow fix by ivan coyote

the swashbuckler by lee lynch

old dyke tales by lee lynch

sci-fi, fantasy, and horror:

gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir

the unspoken name by ak larkwood

vermilion by molly tanzer

metal from heaven by august clarke

scapegracers by ha clarke

the unbroken by cl clarke

fire logic by laurie marks

the seep by chana porter

these burning stars by bethany jacobs

feast while you can by mikaella clements and onjuli datta

non-fiction, memoir, and autobiography:

hijab butch blues by lamya h

gender failure by ivan coyote and rae spoon

fun home by allison bechdel

butch is a noun by h bear bergman

female masculinity by jack halberstam

burning butch by rb murtz

when we were outlaws by jeanne cordova

leaving isn't the hardest thing by lauren hough

odd girls and twilight lovers by lillian faderman

another mother tongue by judy grahn

boots of leather, slippers of gold by elizabeth lapovsky and madeline davis

the persistent desire ed joan nestle

persistence: all way butch and femme ed ivan coyote and zena sharman

dagger: on butch women ed lily burana

Late night drive while we hold hands

i need the roumb creature

i crave meaningful and honest conversations with people but now everyone’s so fucking dry. i can get someone not wanting to open up and i respect that, you don’t have to. but it genuinely does matter to me when people talk to me about literally anything, even if i just have to listen and nothing more, it means the world to me. talk to me about your day, or your hyper fixations, or your passions, your thoughts, feelings, anything.

New York City, 1970s

being butch, to me, is so much more than being masculine presenting, wearing men's clothes, or having short hair

being butch is about being the man for women that men often fail to be, if that makes sense. it's holding doors open for women, it's telling women they're pretty, it's paying for dinner, it's opening the pickle jar. yes, for me that's also wearing men's clothes and boxers and sports bras and shaving my head, but it's being a gentleman, too.

i'm a cis woman, but there is nothing more i want to be than the gentleman for a woman. i want to have a femme girlfriend who i buy flowers for and compliment her makeup and walk on the street side of the sidewalk and be the big spoon and take up all of those traditionally male roles

"i was born in the wrong century" NOT ME!!!! i love whoring myself out on the internet for other pervy lesbians <3 i love laying in my bed and masturbating instead of sleeping <3 YOU may be miserable but i am THRIVING!!!!

one lyric that i will forever love is “does she know how proud i am she was created with the courage to unlearn all of their hatred”. i don’t know whether that lyric was meant to allude to being a member of the lgbtq+ community but that lyric is soooo important to me. it is also so true. i feel like if you grew up in a conservative place it is very easy to feel ashamed of your sexuality/gender and it takes courage to embrace your sexuality and gender and not care what other people think.

Fuck a talking stage, do you want to live under my skin or not?

i’m a simple dyke