Ebook: Persistence: all ways butch and femme

"Persistence is a raucous, insightful, sexy, and sometimes dangerous look at what the words butch and femme can mean in today's ever-shifting gender landscape, with one eye on the past and the other on what is to come."--Page 4 of cover.;Introduction / Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman -- Ride / Anna Camilleri -- My First Lover Was Not a Lesbian / Kimberly Dark -- Coming Back Around to Butch / Miriam Zoila Pérez -- A Dad Called Mum / Anne Fleming -- A Beautiful Creature / Karleen Pendleton Jiménez -- Never Be Hungry Again / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha -- Femme Butch Feminist / Jewelle Gomez -- Home/Sickness: Self-Diagnosis / romham padraig gallacher -- Looking Straight at You / Zena Sharman -- A Butch Roadmap / Ivan E. Coyote -- To All the Butches I Loved Between 1995 and 2005: An Open Letter about Selling Sex, Selling Out, and Soldiering On / Amber Dawn -- Brother Dog / S. Bear Bergman -- Butch Is How I Feel / Brenda Barnes -- Slide Rules / Nairne Holtz -- Embodying Hunger and Desire with a Fistful of Bliss / Laiwan -- Between My Fingers / Stacey Milbern -- Masculine of Centre, Seeks Her Refined Femme / B. Cole -- No Butches, No Femmes: The Mainstreaming of Queer Sexuality / Victoria A. Brownworth -- What We Know to Be True / Sasha T. Goldberg -- Me, Simone, and Dot / Chandra Mayor -- For Annie B. (1915-81) / Donnelly Black -- Split Myself Apart / Redwolf Painter -- With Both Fists: Conscious Gender Building through the Butch and Femme Identities / Sinclair Sexsmith -- A Guide to Getting Laid by a Girl in Lipstick and High Heels / Belinda Carroll -- A Patch of Bright Flowers / Zoe Whittall -- Rogue Femininity / Elizabeth Marston -- Changed Sex. Grew Boobs. Started Wearing a Tie. / Amy Fox -- The New Politics of Butch / Jeanne Córdova -- Femme Cowboy / Rae Spoon -- Futch: Thoughts from the Borderlands / Elaine Miller -- Butch-Femme as Spiritual Practice / Thea Hillman -- Rethinking High Maintenance: The Queer Fat Femme Guide to Not Blaming It on the Fact That You Don't Like High Femmes / Bevin Branlandingham -- 38 B / Sailor Holladay -- baby butch: a love letter from the future / Melissa Sky -- Female Masculinity, Male Femininity, Feminine Masculinity, Masculine Femininity ...? / Prince Jei and Misster Raju Rage -- Backstage with Lady Gaga / Ben McCoy -- FEMME SHARK MANIFESTO! / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha -- A Failed Man / Michael V. Smith -- Spotlight / Debra Anderson -- Hats Off / Ivan E. Coyote.