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Okay as a straight white middle aged male I just may not be in the target demographic for this book Seriously Summers seems to have and reasonably a GLBT audience in mind and yet is it interesting and useful for us to get to know what it might be for GLBT couples to raise children I think so This book depicts a time not so long ago turn of this century yet seems longer ago because of world changing GLBT events and dramatic attitude changes Summers admits that it is now a kind of historical document given some prejudices that existed then that were pronounced then yet still existing today of course If that were not the case I would say a title like Pregnant Butch Nine Months Spent in Drag would be unsurprising a yawner But this is still unconventional enough an act even for butch lesbians of course as Summers makes clear to be of general interest I live in Oak Park IL one of Out magazine s best places for GLBTQ folks to live in the world so there may be plenty of potential readers here in the GLBTQ and the rest of us in this blue village I have some personal interest My sister and her wife had a baby fourteen years ago and it was a both marvelous and traumatizing event for my largely religiously conservative family relations now largely healed thank heavens This book helped me recall those days and call my sister to tell her about the book Artisically it is just okay this memoir It is too busy and dense in the layouts on each page with often too many words for my taste in comics But it is interesting blunt rowdy graphic in content and visually And often really funny about first time childbirth for anyone though some specific issues for pregnant dykes of course A fine and insightful and entertaining contribution to lgbtq literature 9781593765408 This book showed a lot of promise and I enjoyed the first half until I encountered A. Pregnant butcher wally K s transphobic rant halfway through She has no idea what she s talking about and would have done a lot better to stick to her own experiences instead of trying to devalue and mock the experiences of those young kids and their trans genderqueer stuff these days She comes off like the gross womyn born womyn only tribes Go hang out at Mich Fest and lay off writing books A. Pregnant butch graphic novel K I don t want that transphobic garbage in my house in the donate box 9781593765408 I loved this POV and the art is terrific I didn t love the rad fem transphobic weirdness in the middle I won t ever really get that 9781593765408 Touching and thinky I wish I d had this to read during my own pregnancy back in the dark ages Loved the art and humor Side Note It still blows my mind that it costs so much that it costs anything for pre natal medical care and delivery in the U. Pregnant but test negative urine S 9781593765408 I was recommended this book because I was also a pregnant butch caveat as an enby I use the term differently than the author At first I enjoyed it it aptly portrayed the relentless stress of engaging the cishet world as a pregnant queer person But then there came the transphobic panels contained largely in the section titled And More Tests starting on page 53 She says that going through childbirth made her a less insecure butch but I look at these panels and it s clear she needs to work on that Here she used art to make fun of and fundamentally misrepresent the experiences and reasoning of transmasculine and genderqueer people so close to her on the spectrum that it felt like a particularly low blow I get that when you re questioning you have to rule out identities for yourself but you don t throw other people under the bus to do that. Pregnant butch book Anyway dear readers given that there are so few narratives on this topic you still might find this a useful memoir But if you re going to read this read with certain pages omitted 9781593765408
First pregnancy can be a fraught uncomfortable experience for any woman but for resolutely butch lesbian Teek Thomasson it is exceptionally challenging Teek identifies as a masculine woman in a world bent on associating pregnancy with a cult of uber femininity Teek wonders Can butches even get pregnant Of course as she and her pragmatic femme girlfriend Vee discover they can But what happens when they do Written and illustrated by A.
Pregnant butchulla K Summers and based on her own pregnancy Pregnant Butch strives to depict this increasingly common but still underrepresented experience of queer pregnancy with humor and complexity from the question of whether suspenders count as legitimate maternity wear to the strains created by different views of pregnancy within a couple and finally to a culturally critical and compassionate interrogation of gender in pregnancy Offering smart ambitious art this graphic memoir is a must read for would be pregnant butches and anyone interested in the intersection of birth and gender as well as a perfect queer baby shower gift and conversation starter for those who always assumed they got being pregnant Pregnant Butch Nine Long Months Spent in DragI will say that I did enjoy this book but hearing her snide remarks or maybe I m just being paranoid about genderqueer and trans folks put me off a little bit It makes it hard for me to be sympathetic with the woes of being butch and pregnant when you can t even have the same empathy for your other queer trans peers Other than that though I found this book to be enjoyable and even a bit informative 9781593765408 I haven t had children so skipped all those books about what to expect when you re expecting but the title of this book is what hooked me Nine long months spent in drag Tell me This graphic memoir recounts the authors experiences as she navigated this heavily trodden path as a not just a queer woman but a butch one at that There is humor and aggravations galore but it all turns out well in the end The art is good and I especially enjoyed the nod to Tintin This is a fun and informative look at her experience and the intersection of gender and pregnancy 9781593765408 I got an advanced copy of Pregnant Butch to review for The Queer Book Club of Providence We ll definitely add it to our list.
Pregnant butch ak summers I was not a big fan of graphic novels at first Since we ve read a few in the Club I m slowly beginning to enjoy the form a little and get over my snobbiness about comics The story line drawing and what I d call the deeper meanings of this book are all worth exploring.
Janine butcher pregnant The plot line is pretty simple butch dyke decides to bear a child and does What happens along the way is what happens to most women who have a child they discover that who they thought they were they aren t The extra annoyances and insults of being a butch in a straight world add another layer of complexity and indignity to the huge change that being pregnant is.
Butch minds the baby samenvatting But oddly what I came away from the book feeling is that butch femme straight single mother plural partners what binds all women together is this common experience of drastic change that comes along with our hormones Menarche sprouting breasts pregnancy menopause oh mama we have to be quick on our feet to manage all this.
Pregnant butch graphic novel The drawing varies from very complete to sketchy from as the author calls it herself strongly influenced by Tintin to informal contemporary and dare I say it even a little Bechtelian drawing I found this endearing as it echoes the constant changing that our hormonal life brings.
Pregnant butcho online free There are some holes in the plot line It s never clear why Teek decides to get pregnant except that she feels old There is no discussion between her partner Vee and herself at least that we see about which of them might want to be the biological mother and why In fact Vee seems to have very little to say about it all When Teek accuses her of abandoning her to do the hard labor of birthing by herself the reader wonders why if there was no discussion about this beforehand Teek would ever expect it to be otherwise.
Pregnant butchulla aboriginal I recommend this book Not just to lesbians but to anyone childless and parents alike The insights into the butch world a world that may be vanishing is worth it The humor lightens what might otherwise be a rather gloomy introverted book The experience deepens Teek s understanding of her identity as a butch woman as well as the many changes we all undergo during our lives 9781593765408 Gender is hard 9781593765408 For the most part this is a cute and insightful graphic memoir about pregnancy and queer identity during the early 2000s However as other have mentioned the four page comic towards the middle of the book titled And More Tests presents an extremely insensitive take on trans and genderqueer issues This episode provides no justification for its dismissive claims and makes it difficult to enjoy the rest of the book in an uncomplicated way 9781593765408 A.
Starting a phd while pregnant K Summers is the creator of the comic zine Negativa and the animated shorts Topless Dickless Clueless and World Without Femmes She is a graduate of Oberlin College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Summers lives with her partner and son in Providence Rhode Island site_link Pregnant Butch is her first graphic novel A.
Pregnant butcher wally K Summers is the creator of the comic zine Negativa and the animated shorts Topless Dickless Clueless and World Without Femmes She is a graduate of Oberlin College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Summers lives with her partner and son in Providence Rhode Island site_link Pregnant Butch is her first graphic novel site_link
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