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“Before there were lesbians, there were butches. The masculine woman prowls the film set as an emblem of social upheaval and as a marker of sexual disorder. She wears the wrong clothes, expresses aberrant desires, and if often associated with clear markers of a distinctly phallic power.
She may carry a gun, smoke a cigar, wear leather, ride a motorbike; she may swagger, strut, boast, flirt with younger and more obviously feminine women; she often goes by a male moniker: Frankie, George, Willy, Micky, Eli, Nicky. She is tough and tragic, she was a tomboy, and she expresses a variety of masculinities.”
― Female Masculinity
She may carry a gun, smoke a cigar, wear leather, ride a motorbike; she may swagger, strut, boast, flirt with younger and more obviously feminine women; she often goes by a male moniker: Frankie, George, Willy, Micky, Eli, Nicky. She is tough and tragic, she was a tomboy, and she expresses a variety of masculinities.”
― Female Masculinity
“The social worlds we inhabit ... are not inevitable, they were not always bound to turn out this way, and what's more, in the process of producing this reality, many other realities and ways of being have been discarded.”
― The Queer Art of Failure
― The Queer Art of Failure
“Read here the words of a monster, brought to you unedited and without embellishment! Yes, it is true -- the monster speaks! ....Whisper its secrets and tell everyone its message -- the monster of whom you speak has left his cage.”
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