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Leaving No Stone Unturned: an interview with queer country musician Karen Pittelman

Leaving No Stone Unturned: an interview with queer country musician Karen Pittelman

Something felt right about that to me, leaning into our mutual love for butch/femme inside of our queer femme friendship, for a country…
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Jess St. Louis
“Queerness has offered that aliveness, in the ability to give full expression to desire, to want all and give all and not apologize.” — Moki Macías
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Introduction to A Life We Braid: The what & why

Introduction to A Life We Braid: The what & why

“I stand on the sandy road that runs between the two encampments, at the boundary of womanhood. I don’t want woman to be a fortress that…
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Grover Wehman-Brown
Alongside Us: An invocation at the start

Alongside Us: An invocation at the start

a conversation between A Life We Braid initial schemers- Jess St. Louis & Grover Wehman-Brown.
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Grover Wehman-Brown
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The Tension of Desire: Parenting and a Femme Erotic

The Tension of Desire: Parenting and a Femme Erotic

Parenthood did not feel like a new identity as much as a new embodiment of myself.
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Moki Macias
I Know What I’m Doing

I Know What I’m Doing

I don’t know where it starts.
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Ana de León
Lesbian Feminists and A Young Trans Woman, Too: A Reflection on Donna Gottshalk’s Brave, Beautiful…

Lesbian Feminists and A Young Trans Woman, Too: A Reflection on Donna Gottshalk’s Brave, Beautiful…

by Jess St. Louis
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Jess St. Louis
A Dyke Bar in Toledo, Ohio

A Dyke Bar in Toledo, Ohio

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Gertrude, for I drove past burnt-out houses and abandoned hospitals with limb-twitching anxiety…
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Grover Wehman-Brown
With Gratitude and Struggle: Loving Butch/Femme as a Trans Woman

With Gratitude and Struggle: Loving Butch/Femme as a Trans Woman

by Jess St. Louis
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Jess St. Louis
STONE: A Femme’s Journey

STONE: A Femme’s Journey

The day after the spring equinox, I woke up to find it snowing. I live in the South, in the mid-size city Greensboro, North Carolina; and…
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Jess St. Louis
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