{"product_id":"persistence-all-ways-butch-and-femme","title":"Persistence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLambda Literary Award finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nIn the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is \u003ci\u003ePersistence: All Ways Butch and Femme\u003c\/i\u003e. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories defy reductive stereotypes and inflexible categories. The pages in this book describe the lives of an incredible diversity of people whose hearts also pounded for some reason the first time they read or heard the words \"butch\" or \"femme.\"\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nContributors such as Jewelle Gomez (\u003ci\u003eThe Gilda Stories\u003c\/i\u003e), Thea Hillman (\u003ci\u003eIntersex\u003c\/i\u003e), S. Bear Bergman (\u003ci\u003eButch is a Noun\u003c\/i\u003e), Chandra Mayor (\u003ci\u003eAll the Pretty Girls\u003c\/i\u003e), Amber Dawn (\u003ci\u003eSub Rosa\u003c\/i\u003e), Anna Camilleri (\u003ci\u003eBrazen Femme\u003c\/i\u003e), Debra Anderson (\u003ci\u003eCode White\u003c\/i\u003e), Anne Fleming (\u003ci\u003eAnomaly\u003c\/i\u003e), Michael V. Smith (\u003ci\u003eCumberland\u003c\/i\u003e), and Zoe Whittall (\u003ci\u003eBottle Rocket Hearts\u003c\/i\u003e) explore the parameters, history, and power of a multitude of butch and femme realities. It's 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. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nIncludes a foreword by Joan Nestle, renowned femme author and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, a landmark anthology originally published in 1992.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eNow in its second printing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ivan Coyote (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":44733318037797,"sku":"9781551523972","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/7851\/4725\/products\/BNCImageAPI_051ca0d2-c5af-4135-b279-8dc3850c0c5b.jpg?v=1679348975","url":"https:\/\/crossandcrows.myshopify.com\/products\/persistence-all-ways-butch-and-femme","provider":"Cross \u0026 Crows Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}