Afleveringen
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By request of several listeners and of my own heart, I made a longer-form introduction to Episode 4 that I ended up (duh, should have done this in the first place) pulling out as its own clip.
I've edited, reedited, fleshed it out, and here it is.
This minisode was prompted by some "fun" stuff on the Stone Butch Disco Instagram this week. [TL;DR: on the IG, some folks took our site's female lesbian namesake, Leslie Feinberg, whose website prominently displays her femaleness and she/her pronouns, and told us she was *actually* male -- then weaponized that fabrication to explain to us how the central aims of our project, 1) fighting for butch lesbians like us to reclaim our female bodies from the patriarchy and 2) fighting for femme lesbians to be allowed to say they exclusively desire female butch women, are both immoral and unenlightened to the obvious fact that sex is made up.]
I recorded this as a "toolkit" for anyone listening anywhere who has experienced similar hostilities, online or IRL, for talking about the specific ways they experience being a butch lesbian or a femme lesbian. (If you know, you know.) If this hasn't happened to you, great! I'm glad the queer community respects somebody. But if it has, here's something I hope helps. I'm learning more and more how many people share with me, but are as terrified as I have been of talking about, the routine experience of being told their language for their own political analysis of their own identity is not just difficult, or even unpalatable, but also makes them a shitty dumb idiot meanie.
Again: if that's not you, then ignore this one! It'll probably sound too quasi-academic and too much "blah blah." But if that is you, I hope this gives you a back-pocket resource to remind you (and me) there's not any damn thing wrong with us, and that Leslie Feinberg was a proud female lesbian who promoted transing gender conventions precisely because she fucked with gender like we do.
Like a female-out-of-line does.
Support Stone Butch Disco and the StoneButchDisco.com lesbian writing and archives project at https://www.patreon.com/stonebutchdisco.
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In Stone Butch Disco's first episode, Rachel and Meredith lay out the SBD project's theoretical foundations while talking about their experiences and making a combination of smart and stupid jokes.
Check out the goods, including Rachel's writing and all the merch we thought (at the time) was a good idea, at: https://www.stonebutchdisco.com
Support Stone Butch Disco and the StoneButchDisco.com lesbian writing and archives project at https://www.patreon.com/stonebutchdisco.
Music used in this episode, in order of appearance:
"Glad It's Over," by White Bones, via Epidemic Sound"Get Outta My Face," by Wanda Shakes, via Epidemic Sound"Pep Talk (Clean Version)," by Xavy Rusan, via Epidemic SoundRachel's own shameless Beegees parody -
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