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The Butch Project
The Butch Project is an archiving project that is collecting stories from butch identified people (including women, womyn, transmen, etc.). The stories will be used on a blog, an exhibition, and a book. These will be an attempt to bring the butch community together and provide a base of support for people who identify as butch and find struggle in that.

The Butch Project was created in March 2010 in a response to the numerous personal ads that would state: “no butches,” “butch women need not contact,” “ONLY FEMMES,” “not butches, androgynous okay.” Though each subset of the queer community faces their own issues and complications, I wanted to focus on this recent phenomenon of butch-phobia. In a complete panic, I sought my surroundings for people who identified as “butch.” And, with a lot of disappointment and little surprise, noticed – for the first time – I was alone in my butchness. We need to connect. We need to share stories. We need to create an anthology, develop a community, and present a source of inspiration for those queer women in a new generation who are facing discouragement. We need to expand and integrate our stories so that one day this anthology, this project, will serve to give a better understanding of the “butch” community. Send in your poems, stories, photographs, comments, memoirs, opinions, drawings to kaypaiva@gmail.com, or look to The Butch Project blog.

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