Butch ado about nothing: A reading list
Mairi
Inspired by a recent request for queer butch rep (tragically thin on the ground) and Grace Petrie's (spectacular and affirming) Butch Ado About Nothing stand up show, and the release of June Thomas' splendid and inclusive A Place of Our Own , here's a wee pride month celebration of some butch, masc, dyke delights of the queer lit scene! If you have others to recommend PLEASE send them our way!
Looking for a bookclub that celebrates all things butch? Wanna talk books with fellow dykes or delve into the best sapphic stories? Check out the wonderful Wuthering Dykes Book Club! Their next bookclub meets in August 5th to discuss K Patrick's Mrs S (and you can use the code DYKE-COOL-BOOKCLUB to get 10% off their bookclub books, including this one :)
Linked Books
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- Mrs S
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- K Patrick
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- A Place of Our Own : Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
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- June Thomas
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- Hijab Butch Blues : A Memoir
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- H, Lamya
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- My Butch Career : A Memoir
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- Esther Newton
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- Butch Heroes
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- Brodell, Ria (Artist and Educator)
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- Burning Butch
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- Mertz, R/B
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- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments : Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals
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- Hartman, Saidiya
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- Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide : A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020
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- Charlesworth, Kate
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- Gender Failure
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- Coyote, Ivan, Spoon, Rae
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- Persistence : All Ways Butch and Femme
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- Coyote, Ivan E, Sharman, Zena
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- Female Masculinity
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- Halberstam, Jack
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- Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars : The Politics of Sex
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- Dr Finn Mackay
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- The Life & Times Of Butch Dykes : Portraits of Artists, Leaders, and Dreamers Who Changed the World
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- Aquino, Eloisa
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- Queer Footprints : A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History
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- Dan Glass
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- The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For
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- Bechdel, Alison
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- C+nto : & Othered Poems
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- Taylor, Joelle
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- Three Births
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- K Patrick
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- Chelsea Girls
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- Myles, Mx Eileen
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- My Own Worst Enemy : The hot enemies-to-lovers romcom you won't want to miss!
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- Lindon, Lily
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- Just as You Are : A Novel
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- Kellog, Camille
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- Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
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- Lawlor, Andrea
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- Girl Mans Up
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- Girard, M-E
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- Last Night at the Telegraph Club
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- Lo, Malinda
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- One Last Stop
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- McQuiston, Casey
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- The Unbroken
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- Clark, C. L.
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- Rebent Sinner
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- Coyote, Ivan
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- Kiss Her Once for Me : A Novel
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- Cochrun, Alison
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- Can't Resist Her
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- Kianna Alexander
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- When Katie Met Cassidy
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- Perri, Camille
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- Gideon the Ninth
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- Muir, Tamsyn
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- Tipping The Velvet : Virago 50th Anniversary Edition
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- Waters, Sarah
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- Vicky Romeo Plus Joolz
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- Percy, Ely, Dolan, Louise, Kunitsky, Nathaniel
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- Cosmoknights
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- Hannah Templer
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- Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail : A swoon-worthy, laugh-out-loud queer romcom
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- Blake, Ashley Herring
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- Nightwood
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- Djuna Barnes
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- Girls, Visions and Everything : A Novel
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- Sarah Schulman
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- Greasepaint
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- Levene, Hannah
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- Playboy : 'An essential read' - Joelle Taylor, T.S. Eliot Prize-winning author of C+nto
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- Debre, Constance, James, Holly
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- Neon Roses : The joyfully queer, uplifting and sexy read of the summer
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- Dawson, Rachel
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- Unsuitable : A History of Lesbian Fashion
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- Eleanor Medhurst
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- Rosewater
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- Liv Little
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- These Letters End in Tears
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- Xaviere, Musih Tedji