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Apr 7 '13
Video: Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon perform Gender Failure

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Feb 28 '12
“The traditional scholarly line is that neither of these scenarios [men or women cross-dressing in an attempt to seduce women] is really about same-sex attraction. The women who falls for a woman-in-breeches is mistaken, this argument goes, and so not really wanting her but the “man” the breeches make her seem to be. On the other hand, the women who falls for a man-in-skirts is mistaken, and so not really wanting “her,” just liking “her” very much, or perhaps (without knowing it) desiring the real man behind the skirts. To deny the lesbian implications of these two scenarios, this paradoxical argument has to define desire as conscious but illusory in the first, unconscious but authentic in the second.”
— Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue

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Oct 26 '11
[image description: the cover of Moving Pieces by Emily Maroutian. The cover is mostly beige, with a photo of a suspension bridge in the middle third. Above are the words “Moving Pieces A Novel” and the author’s name under the photo. The beige part of the cover seems to have shadows of the same suspension bridge as in the photo. End description.] Emily Maroutian’s Moving Pieces is the kind of book that forces you to focus the bright light inward, because the book isn’t about a genderless Narrator, it’s about each and every one of us.The story might be a little heavy for some readers, but it’s a quick read and well worth the internal dialogue that will invariably clutter your brain.  Moving Pieces by Emily Maroutian was reviewed at The Rainbow Reader. (via the Lesbrary)

[image description: the cover of Moving Pieces by Emily Maroutian. The cover is mostly beige, with a photo of a suspension bridge in the middle third. Above are the words “Moving Pieces A Novel” and the author’s name under the photo. The beige part of the cover seems to have shadows of the same suspension bridge as in the photo. End description.]

Emily Maroutian’s Moving Pieces is the kind of book that forces you to focus the bright light inward, because the book isn’t about a genderless Narrator, it’s about each and every one of us.
The story might be a little heavy for some readers, but it’s a quick read and well worth the internal dialogue that will invariably clutter your brain. 

Moving Pieces by Emily Maroutian was reviewed at The Rainbow Reader. (via the Lesbrary)

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Jul 28 '11
“

It happened to me on the way in today, the security guard guy at the front desk: “He called you sir and you didn’t correct him!”

And I said, “Why is it relevant or necessary?” Unless he’s a doctor, or a potential lover, then it doesn’t really matter to me… I’ve got other things on my mind other than what kind of particular genitalia the gentleman behind the security desk might suppose that I have or don’t have.

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— Ivan E. Coyote

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Apr 21 '11
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme edited by Ivan Coyote and Zena Sharman was reviewed at The Femme’s Guide.

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme edited by Ivan Coyote and Zena Sharman was reviewed at The Femme’s Guide.

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Sep 5 '10

Perez read “Coming back around to Butch”. [via Lambda Literary]

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