links:

BUTCH Voices -a grassroots organization dedicated to all self-identified Masculine of Center* people and our Allies.

Brown Boi Project – a community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and our allies committed to transforming our privilege of masculinity, gender, and race into tools for achieving Racial and Gender Justice.

videos:

“A Butch Roadmap” — Ivan Coyote

“To all of the kick ass, beautiful fierce femmes out there…” — Ivan Coyote

“A Few Words on Being Different” — Christopher

“Nebraska” — Miles Walser

Further reading:

In a Queer Time & Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives by Judith Halberstam

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

The Apartheid of Sex: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender by Martine Rothblatt

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein

From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM, and Beyond by Morty Diamond

Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Year Disguised as a Man by Norah Vincent

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Bull Jean Stories by Sharon Bridgforth

Loving in the War Years by Cherrie Moraga

Butch Is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman

Dagger: On Butch Women by Lily Burana and Roxxie Linnea Due

Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam