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https://www.nytimes.com//butches-and-studs-in-their-own-wo

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tmagazineVerifiedQueer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of #butchand stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own aesthetic and a defiant repudiation of the male gaze. Butch has long been the name we’ve given a certain kind that kind of lesbian. The old adage applies: You know her when you see her. She wears men’s clothing, short hair, no makeup. Both a gender and a sexuality, butchness is about the body but also transcend...s it: We exist in this realm of masculinity that has nothing to do with cis men that’s the part only we [butches] know how to talk about, says the 42-year-old writer, former Olympic swimmer and men’s wear model Casey Legler (@_caseylegler). Many people don’t even know how to ask questions about who we are, or about what it means to be us. Click the link in our bio to read Kerry Manders's (@kerrymmanders) full story, written for #TCultureIssue.https://www.instagram.com/p/B-7DRv-Bg5-/?igshid=95gt4g144kk5

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"Queer Curating, from Definition to Deconstruction" Nine artists, curators and organizers, including QAF artistic director SD Holman and QAF 2017 staff Lacie Burning, reflect on the ethics and politics of queer practice for Canadian Art: https://canadianart.ca/features/queer-curating/