May 6, 2011
Evenings Out
Warm, mellow thoughts on butch and femme
by Anthony Glassman
http://www.gaypeopleschronicle.com/stories11/may/0506117.htm (http://www.gaypeopleschronicle.com/stories11/may/0506117.htm)
So imagine my shock, my disbelief, when I find out that Ivan E. Coyote has a new book out, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (Arsenal Pulp Press, trade paper, $19.95). It's a collection of ruminations on, well, butchness and femmeness edited by Coyote and Zena Sharman, described as a "gender researcher and femme dynamo."
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All joking aside, it is thrilling both to see an incredibly storyteller branching out in a new direction and to have another name added to the lexicon of top-notch queer thinkers. Both women are Canadian, which means they're a little more thoughtful, a little mellower, and probably somehow more clever than we are. It's just the way of things.