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==Stone butch== | ==Stone butch== | ||
Going back to at least the 1960s or 50s, a "stone butch" | Going back to at least the 1960s or 50s, a "stone butch" refers a masculine lesbian, and in contemporary use is associated with impenetrability.<ref name=Halberstam>{{Cite book|last1=Halberstam|first1=Judith|title=Female Masculinity|year=1998|edition=1st|page=111|publisher=Duke University Press|location=|chapter=Lesbian Masculinity: Even Stone Butches Get the Blues|isbn=0822322269|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/femalemasculinit00judi}}</ref> The "stone" sexual role describes a preference for bringing pleasure to one's partner, without being touched oneself.<ref name=Zimmerman1999>{{Cite book|editor-last1=Zimmerman|editor-first1=Bonnie|title=Lesbian Histories and Cultures|year=1999|edition=1st|page=140|publisher=Routledge|location=|isbn=978-0815319207|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofle00bzim}}</ref><ref name=Myers2013>{{Cite book|editor-last1=Myers|editor-first1=JoAnne|title=Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements|year=2013|edition=1st|page=346|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=|isbn=0810874687}}</ref> Being "stone" in this way can be connected with sexual trauma, [[gender dysphoria]], or the [[Romantic and sexual_orientation#Asexuality|asexual spectrum]]. | ||
In relation to gender, a femme lesbian named Rachel Tessler wrote in 1996 that "some stone butches are almost beyond butch. They're almost in a kind of territory between genders, beyond being women. I think some stone butches aren't really women, in the way that they think about people."<ref>''Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins...'', p. 104-105, Columbia University Press, 1996</ref> | In relation to gender, a femme lesbian named Rachel Tessler wrote in 1996 that "some stone butches are almost beyond butch. They're almost in a kind of territory between genders, beyond being women. I think some stone butches aren't really women, in the way that they think about people."<ref>''Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins...'', p. 104-105, Columbia University Press, 1996</ref> | ||
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*[http://www.butchvoices.com/ Butch Voices], "a grassroots organization dedicated to all self-identified Masculine of Center people and our Allies" | *[http://www.butchvoices.com/ Butch Voices], "a grassroots organization dedicated to all self-identified Masculine of Center people and our Allies" | ||
*{{Cite web |title=A Dispatch From the Shifting, Porous Border Between Butch and Trans |last=Urquhart |first=Evan |work=Slate Magazine |date=24 April 2015 |url= https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/04/butch-and-trans-a-dispatch-from-the-shifting-border.html}} | *{{Cite web |title=A Dispatch From the Shifting, Porous Border Between Butch and Trans |last=Urquhart |first=Evan |work=Slate Magazine |date=24 April 2015 |url= https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/04/butch-and-trans-a-dispatch-from-the-shifting-border.html}} | ||
*[https://xanwest.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/what-is-stone/ Xan West: What Is Stone?] | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||