tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3638489422996007707.post5527527777990647971..comments2023-06-06T04:22:55.269-07:00Comments on this lesbian world: Butch is a Way of LifeJeanne Córdovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06821638064024748117noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3638489422996007707.post-75957029109946037052011-08-18T16:27:32.498-07:002011-08-18T16:27:32.498-07:00Thanks Jeanne for standing up for all us Female Id...Thanks Jeanne for standing up for all us Female Identified/Female Proud Butches. I feel much better now that y'all have taken a stance and that you will be having some workshops. I hope to avail myself of them. Don't forget please, that some of us are also Female Proud Butch on Butch, not all of us are exclusively into Femmes. Nonetheless this Butch DykeAmazon has been twisting about what's been going on with Butch Voices and erasing us from the definitions, workshops or any kind of real inclusion. Many of us Female Proud Butches submitted workshops at the last conference, and we all pretty much were turned down.<br /><br />We don't need excuses from Joe or anyone, or coverups. Just truth, transparency and real openness and open dialogue, nor to erase the words Butch, Woman,Female, Aggressive, Dyke, or any other designation that speaks to us and who we are because they have been difficult identities to survive through in the past and sometimes used against us. So what? We need to own ALL our Dyke and Butch Lesbian herstory, all of it, the good, the bad and the ugly. <br /><br />Anyway thanks for taking a stand to include Lesbian and Feminist, even though it cost you, because many of us ARE PROUD to be Butch Lesbians with the understanding that Feminism applies to all of us born female living as female, and the sexism, lesbophobia and butchphobia we have had to endure throughout our lives, but first and foremost is sexism, especially if we attempt to get into nontraditional work as many Butches including myself have. <br /><br />See you this weekend!<br /> -In Butch DykeAmazon Solidarity,<br /> -M.A.MasterAmazonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com