#lily burana

[iphis24]

To defend our right to be visible, even when that very visibility puts us at risk, is courage born both of desperation and hope.

Lily Burana, Roxxie, and Linnea Due, introduction to Dagger: On Butch Women

#lily burana #roxxie #linnea due #dagger: on butch women #quotes

[airedelalmena]

Dagger: On Butch Women, excerpt from interview with Jeanne Cordova

#queued #dagger: on butch women #jeanne cordova #lily burana #butch femme #books #this was in the 90s and it’s still entirely true #first time i’ve read anyone from that era who saw the anti butch femme times really connect it all to gender like this #(that era meaning 60s 70s the culture wars) #that’s really what it was it was going after any visibly gender different people in order to create good pr for the gay movement #acknowledging that really requires accepting oneself as a gender different person on a basic level which was extremely verboten then #so on top of being screwed over by all this they didn’t seem to even feel comfortable enough to talk about it and WHY it was done to them #just…as much fuckery has been done in the modern scene i’m so glad we can at least fucking talk about this now #and identify as whatever without being smeared as gender traitors just for not being cis women #jfc #by making it all about sexuality rather than gender difference they were being kept from forming a real consciousness #which was what the whole division they were creating in the lgbt was about in the first place; making sure that didn’t happen #ugh

[femmespoiled]

I have loved reading about your recent butch and femme posts so much, so I would like to start with thanking you for them. I’m a baby dyke and for the past while I’ve been a self described butch, but where I’m at atm isn’t safe for me to be out so I haven’t had much irl experience with other lesbians. I’ve never heard the difference between a feminine lesbian and a femme put before in words! I was wondering if you had any resources (books, research, pdfs) on butch experiences? Ik you might not be the best person to ask but your blog is the first place I’ve seen it talked about ever!

Many thanks and well wishes Xx I hope you have a lovely day

Hi! I'm glad you like my posts 🥰 and I'm sorry about your situation, I hope it gets better soon truly

I do have some books to recommend and I'll give their pdfs (or a way to read them) in their respective links:

The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader by Joan Nestle

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme by Ivan Coyote and Zena Sharman

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline Davis

Butch Is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote

My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage by Barrie Jean Borich

Dagger: On Butch Women, edited by Lily Burana and Roxxie Linea Due.

Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon

I hope you have a good day too!

#bellas books #bellas butch/femme tag #ask

[albertserra]

my trans/faggot reading list

The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halbertsam

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices by Toby Beauchamp

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano

gay masculinities by peter nardi

Homosexuality in Cold War America : Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity by Robert J Corber

Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives by Walt Odets

nevada by imogen binnie

gender nihilism by alyson escalante + addendum

Trans-in-Asia, Asia-in-Trans: An Introduction 

Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement by  Jian Neo Chen

The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment by Cameron Awkward-Rich

Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity (various)

Acceptable femininity? Gay male misogyny and the policing of queer femininities Sadie E Hale and Tomás Ojeda

Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by grace e lavery

delusions of gender by cordelia fine

a failed man by michael v smith (part of persistence: all ways butch and femme)

time is the thing a body moves through by T. Fleischmann

kai cheng thom’s writing

we want it all: an anthology of trans radical poetics

second skins: the body narratives of transsexuality by jay prossner

transgender warriors by leslie feinberg

the faggots and their friends between revolutions by larry mitchell

translating the queer: body politics and transnational conversations by hector dominguez ruvalcaba

captive genders: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex

we both laughed in pleasure: the selected diaries of lou sullivan

how we get free: black feminism and the combahee river collective

trans girl suicide museum by hannah baer

dagger: on butch women by lily burana

black queer studies: a critical anthology by e patrick johnson and mae g Henderson

queer sex by juno roche

black on both sides: a racial history of trans identities by C. Riley Snorton

transgender liberation by leslie feinberg

female masculinity by jack halberstam

transecology by douglas a vakoch

street transvestite action revolutionaries : survival, revolt, and queer antagonistic struggle (Sylvia Rivera , Marsha P. Johnson)

a body that is ultra body: in conversation with fred moten and elysia crampton

building an abolitionist trans and queer movement with everything we’ve got (morgan bassichis, alexander lee and dean spade, 2011)

feminism and the (trans)gender entrapment of gender nonconforming prisoners (julia oparah, 2012)

normal life: administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law (dean spade, 2015)

Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera by Việt Lê

detransition, baby by torrey peters

paul takes the form of a mortal girl by andrea lawlor

a failed man by michael v. smith (part of persistence: all ways butch and femme)

my new vagina wont make me happy by andrea long chu

sexing the body by Anne Fausto-Sterling

something that may shock and discredit you by danny lavery

the argonauts by maggie nelson

gender outlaws by kate bornstein

special mentions for articles ive read that were already very formative for me

Masquerading As the American Male in the Fifties: Picnic, William Holden and the Spectacle of Masculinity in Hollywood Film by Steven Cohan

The Production and Display of the Closet: Making Minnelli's "Tea and Sympathy” by David Gerstner

huge thanks to @mypocketsnug who sent #20-40

this is not at all intended to be some kind of definitive resource as ive literally read none of these yet save for the two i mention at the bottom and im compiling this for my personal use, im only publishing this bc an anon asked me to! feel free to reblog and also recommend me more but keep this disclaimer in mind

#reading list

[bvtchdom]

From "The Joys of Butch", Susie Bright and Shar Rednour featured in Dagger: On Butch Women (1994) Edited by Lily Burana Roxxie Linnea Due

#butch #femme #lesbian #stone butch #butch tag #femme tag

[haggishlyhagging]

According to Google Trends, the word "empowerment" hit a high in 2004 and 2005, as it became more deeply entrenched everywhere—feminist discourse, consumer marketing, corporate culture. "Empowering" joined "synergy," "scalable," and "drill-down" in boardroom conferences, vision statements, and business plans, and was eventually called "the most condescending transitive verb ever" by Forbes. It's become the name of a range of businesses, a national fitness event, and an almost mind-boggling number of yoga studios. It's become a company-jargon fave at Microsoft, with former and current CEOs Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella both using it to impressively vague effect in memos and public talks. (At Microsoft's annual Convergence event in 2015, Nadella told attendees, "We are in the empowering business," and added that the tech giant's goal was "empowering you as individuals and organizations across every vertical and every size of business, and any part of the world, to drive your agenda and do the things you want to do for your business.")

Elsewhere in discourses and debates around sex as both an activity and a commodity, "empowerment" has become a sort of shorthand that might mean "I'm proud of doing this thing," but also might mean "This thing is not the ideal thing, but it's a lot better than some of the alternatives." Feeling empowered by stripping, for instance, was a big theme among moonlighting academics or otherwise privileged young women in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and you can find countless memoirs about what they discovered about themselves in the world of the sexual marketplace; the same is true of prostitution, with blogs like Belle de Jour, College Call Girl, and books like Tracy Quan's Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl. There was a point in the mid-to-late 2000s when you couldn't swing a cat through Barnes & Noble without knocking a slew of sex-work memoirs off the shelves: Lily Burana’s Strip City, Diablo Cody's Candy Girl, Jillian Lauren's Some Girl, Michelle Tea's Rent Girl, Shawna Kenny's I Was a Teenage Dominatrix, Melissa Febos's Whip Smart, and Sarah Katherine Lewis's Indecent among them. The crucial thing these often incredibly absorbing and well-written books had in common? All were written by young, white, and no-longer-hustling sex workers.

I want to be clear that standing with sex workers on the principle that sex work is work is an issue whose importance cannot be overstated, and also clear that my complete lack of expertise on the subject makes it well beyond the scope of this book. But I am interested in the idea that "empowerment" is so often used as a reflexive defense mechanism in discussions of this kind of sex-work experience, but less so in describing the less written-about experiences of people whose time in the industry is less finite and less bookworthy—transgender women, exploited teenagers and trafficked foreigners, men and women forced into sex work by poverty, abuse, or addiction. And I'm fascinated by the fact that we see thousands of pop culture products in which women are empowered by a sex industry that does not have their empowerment in mind, but far fewer in which they are empowered to make sexual choices on their own terms, outside of a status quo in which women's bodies are commodities to be bought and sold. Indecent author Sarah Katherine Lewis has written that, during her time as a stripper, "I felt empowered—as a woman, as a feminist, as a human being by the money I made, not by the work I did"; but hers is just one story. Belle de Jour and other sex workers have written about truly enjoying their work. If the market were just as welcoming of narratives in which young women were empowered by their careers as, say, electricians—if personal memoirs about a youthful, self-determining layover in the electrical trades were a thing publishers clamored for—then a handful of empowered sex workers would be no big thing. Until that's the case, it's worth questioning why the word is so often the first line of defense.

-Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once

#andi zeisler #feminism and sex work #female empowerment

[ladychlo]

hi can u recommend me some trans literature please!!!!

Hi love! I'm so sorry, I'm awfully late to this! I tried to download some so they can be accessible to you but I might have a problem with my drive! anyways these are some of which I've read and some on my reading list!

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Dagger: On Butch Women by Lily Burana

Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transexual and Transgendered People. by Namaste, Vivian K.

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

For Today I Am A Boy by Kim Fu

Yes, You Are Trans Enough by Mia Violet

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Serrano Julia

Transgender History by Stryker Susan

Why Wanting in Arabic by Trish Salah

GENDERqUEER: voices from beyond the sexual binary

ComQueer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives by Nia Kingplex

Trans Like Me by CN Lester

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial by Stanley, Eric A. and Nat Smith

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by SA’ED ATSHAN

Bad Girls (Las malas) by Camila Sosa Villada

Las Biuty Queens by Iván Monalisa Ojeda

#here you go love! #if anyone wants to add more feel free to do so <3 #transgender

[katereads]

‘Gen X’s actual history of activism is almost never acknowledged, but we were out there—in person, in marches, at rallies, at rap and punk shows, doing volunteer grunt work, wheat-pasting protest art to scaffolding as cities slept. The anti-capitalism and labor awareness of Millennials and Zoomers was preceded by the agenda-setting of Xers active in anti-globalization protests like 1999’s Battle in Seattle. We shouted down the Reagan administration’s inaction on AIDS, marched on Washington against threats to abortion access, and rallied to protest both wars in Iraq. “ACT-UP and Queer Nation, which both did so much to revitalize street protest and agit-pop art, had Gen Xs fingerprints all over it” notes writer Lily Burana, adding that, pre-internet, ‘zines and indie record labels were crucial “as vehicles for democratizing media and the dissemination of radical ideas.”’

#gen x #I would like to see class analysis more than generational analysis #but this made me giggle and nod in recognition

[mitchipedia]

The Reality of Being a Parent With a Controversial Past

Lily Burana wrote a bestselling memoir about her life as a stripper. Now she’s the mother of a four-year-old.

Our cultural fondness for outlaws is context-specific: Everyone loves a badass, but no one loves a bad parent.

…

we Parents with Pasts plead for the clemency of kindness, for assumptions of our inherent normalcy. After all, we wrestle our kids’ pants on one leg at a time, just like everybody else.

[rapierdagger]

also, I thought it might be worth linking some interesting books I found on archive.org:

the song of achilles - madeleine miller

the old man and the sea - ernest hemingway

snow crash - neal stephenson

good omens - terry pratchett & neil gaiman

american gods - neil gaiman

six of crows & crooked kingdom - leigh bardugo

the secret history - donna tartt

on earth we're briefly gorgeous - ocean vuong

dagger: on butch women - lily burana, roxxie, linnea due

dnd 5e dungeon master's guide, monster manual and player's handbook & xanathar's guide to everything & the lost mine of phandelver

the gulag archipelago - alexander solzhenitsyn

atomic habits - james clear

eat that frog - brian tracy

conflict is not abuse - sarah schulman

why does he do that? - lundy bancroft

empire of pain - patrick radden keefe

the utopia of rules - david graeber

the hot zone - richard preston

the silk roads - peter frankopan

flash boys - michael lewis

the immortal life of henrietta lacks - rebecca skloot

behave - robert sapolsky

homo deus - yuval noah harari

persepolis volume one - marjane satrapi

persepolis volume two - marjane satrapi

this changes everything - naomi klein

silent spring - rachel carson

braiding sweetgrass - robin wall kimmerer

black skin, white masks - franz fanon

the wretched of the earth - franz fanon

the autobiography of malcolm x - malcolm x, alex haley

women, race & class - angela y. davis

various politics/history/postcolonialism books (incl edward said, amartya sen and francis fukuyama)

various art history books (art history: a very short introduction, art theory: a very short introduction, art in theory 1900-2000, gardner's art through the ages, history of modern art, the books that shaped art history, the story of art, twentieth-century american art)

[iphis24]

Maleness isn’t male on a female, honey — it’s something else again, a horse of another color, something our gender-impoverished language doesn’t offer us words to describe.

Carol Queen, “Why I Love Butch Women”, in Dagger: On Butch Women (Eds. Lily Burana, Roxxie, and Linnea Due)

#carol queen #why i love butch women #dagger: on butch women #gender - #the first part!!! #quotes

[senseofmonachopsis]

I just read "Dagger On Butch Women" by Lily Burana and Roxxie Linnea Due.

There were bisexual women included in the writings. A femme bisexual woman in particular had a lot to say about She didn't call herself a lesbian, so there's that I guess.

#text

[concupiscience]

Come, come, O come, do not let me die, hycra, hycre, nazaza, trillirivos, trillirivos.

Beautiful is your face, the gleam of your eye, and your braided hair, what a glorious creature!

Redder than the rose, whiter than the lily, lovelier than all others, I shall always glory in you!

#Spotify

[antonio-velardo]

Antonio Velardo shares: Yes, Shaun Cassidy Is Still Dreamy by Lily Burana

By Lily Burana A fan finds herself in a backstage hug, decades after she kissed her poster of the onetime teen idol. Published: July 23, 2023 at 05:44PM from NYT Style https://ift.tt/zBfL1Tv via IFTTT

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#antonio velardo #IFTTT #NYT

[genderoutlaws]

Sorry to send you an ask about this, but is driving me nuts; do any of you happen to know that Leslie Feinberg quote that goes like, “a society which will not accept crossdressers will not accept any form of homosexuality or sexual deviancy”?

this is so annoying bc i know Exactly what you mean and i swear i just saw someone post that quote with a link the other day on here but i cant find shit on it rn — followers pls help / will hopefully update hfjdj

edit:

hgraceart replied: tumblr won’t let me link the post but is it from Dagger: On Butch Women that’s “A society which cannot tolerate genderbending or cross- dressing ultimately will not tolerate homosexuality, bisexuality, or any other deviance from sexual or gender norms, no matter how closeted or assimilated.”

edit 2:

found the passage! from Dagger: On Butch Women by Lily Burana, Roxxie Linnea Due

#asks #azuremist #i feel like it might not’ve even been feinberg but i cant rmbr

[greasydoghole]

Tagged by @sepsissy (sorry for getting to this so late lol)

Last song I have listened to: Maxx- get away

Fave color: I always liked emerald green or like industrial orange or whatever u call it

Reading: Jewish with feeling-Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi, Dagger- Lily Burana/Roxie/Linnea Due, Pinball 1973- Haruki Murakami

Last movie: Zemlya 1930 (silent movie about kulaks and collectivization of agriculture, some parts are lost on me but I can't lie that some parts got me all excited for some reason lol)

Currently working on: actually totally finishing atleast one literary piece I'm working on (I'm begging god to allow me some attention span for once please I beg u)

Tagging: I mean tbh tagging other people get me squeamish so like if you see this consider yourself tagged if you want to do it lol