butch's

Kate J: Thanks - I would like to take the credit but I will have to share it with Linda for spotting them much as she did the skull earings I got today, combined with my inability to resist cute butch's with tattoos.

Crip Lesbian Lolita Gothic: or "How my clothes control people." Elizabeth McClung 2007

I would like to figure it out and re-establish that line/dismantle these practices because when it's hot outside I want to wear that short skirt without fear of those in my queer community shoving a box of 'butch's chick' over my head.

dances in the madhouse walksfree 2010

Not to say my particular butch gave me these epitaphs or put me in the position of henceforth representing her in the spotlight, her other queer-butch friends did, but my butch certainly didn't fight against any of this or even think it problematic until I fought back against the blind misogyny of it; The misogyny of labels thrust upon me by people who knew me prior to my sleeping with this butch but who no longer identified me as something other then this butch's chick or broad once we did begin sleeping together; The misogyny that she got to retain her name while I earned the labels of chick and broad; The misogyny that I no longer held an identity outside of "how long have you slept together" or "where did you meet" or

dances in the madhouse walksfree 2010