ButchMafia mafia

very hard knocks, fisticuffs, motorcycles, love, pain.

lovin' the femmes like they love to be loved.

women, dykes, ftm, mtf, lesbians, femmes, butches, bois, political action, bars.

femmes, other lesbians, being stoic and strong while maintaining a deep and thinly concealed vulnerability, whisky neat, various other alcohols, providing sexual pleasure, auto maintenance, household repairs, oh yeah, and any of a wide range of things people of all types happen to be interested in.

jeanette winterson, trace elements of random tea parties, white oleander, harold and the purple crayon, suits me, stone butch blues, rubyfruit jungle, my lesbian husband, various tacky lesbian pulp, female masculinity, on the road, david sedaris, a.e. housman, lorrie moore.

desert hearts (who's the butch - ah-hah!), the awful and "amazingly true" story of two stereotypes in love, aimee and jaguar, but i'm a cheerleader, D.E.B.S., thelma and louise, girl interrupted.

the butchies, res, A3, melissa etheridge, ani, paul simon, bruce springsteen, franc, team dresch, tori, laurie anderson, le tigre, bitch and animal, i don't know, you tell me.

the l-word, star trek, x-files, eerie indiana, murder one, six feet under.

Leo

you know, the short hair doesn't make the butch. this is the modern age, and many short haired women are ever so femme. there are many who are ever so butch. you've got to know 'em to know 'em, and once you know 'em, you gotta love 'em. it's as handy to have a butch around as it is to have a queen around, if not handier. depends on what you're trying to do. depends on what the butch is handy at. we're nototiously great in bed, and all you people know you want us. but we're incredibly sensitive, so don't cross us or you'll have to deal with a depth of passion and pain previously unknown. oh, and incidentally, we are not trying to be men. in case some of you are a few decades behind in memos. we are women who like to wear pants and comfy/classy clothes, and who look even better in them than most men we know. so there. ;) also not to be confused with our ftm brothers, who are guys born as women. they're not trying to be men either, they already are. the butch mafia is all about unity, so be just who you are and be one of us.

butches, transkids, bois, femmes, genderfuckers, queers, and people who love butches for who we are and all we can be. oh yeah, and people in general who are cool. crazy that, eh?