
From You Made Me: A Butch-Femme Love Song
By Sita Balani (link)
I really loved reading this! Loved the articulation that gender-sexual identity is something that another helps you uncover within yourself rather than something you can excavate on your own, loved thinking about how the proliferation of online gay challenges this dynamic, loved the distinction between butch as a gender identity vs and erotic one. And the writing is gorgeous. Haven’t felt this excited about an essay in the ‘queer’ space (god it feels so reductive to categorize it that way) in a while.