Poem: A Love Broem
by: Jack Michealson cut off t-shirts. basketball shorts during pledge week, ironic jorts something about you makes my heart take flight is it the muscle milk, or the natty light? […]
Tag Archives: Masculinity
I Am Not the Sum of My Parts: Reflections on My Trans Identity
by: Lindsey Dietzler I am not the sum of my parts; a penis does not make me a man, an uterus does not make me a woman. I am not […]
Why Aren’t All Butches Trans?
by Butch Wonders Here are three excerpts from reader emails and comments this month: “I wish I was born a man, but I don’t want to be trans. What gives?” […]
Why My Gay, Nine-Year-Old Self Said “No” To The Boy Scouts
by: Derrick Clifton I was roughly nine years old when I first considered joining the Boy Scouts of America. But it just didn’t seem like a place a kid like […]
Let’s Get Some Shoes: On Being a Queer Feminist Femme Who Loves High Heels
by: David Chastity Sometimes Pandora makes terrible choices about what to advertise to me. Engagement rings, diapers, and luxury cars have all been known to show up on the breaks […]
What Does It Mean To Be A “Real Man?”
by: Abigail Collazo Note: This piece was originally published on Role/Reboot and reposted with permission. You can find the original here. In response to The New York Times “Are Modern […]
Sensitive With A Flamethrower Strapped To His Back: An Examination of the New Alpha Male in Cinema
by: Dominick Mayer “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.” – Abraham Lincoln Note: If you haven’t seen the film Bellflower, seriously stop reading this and […]
Butch Queen Rising: Confronting My Misogyny and Embracing My Femininity
by: Johnny Gall Readers, the time has come for me to make a rather unpleasant confession. You see, I was not always the radical, gender-construct-confronting queer you see today. In […]
T and Conversation: On Identifying Male and Reinscribing Traditional Gender Roles
by: Professor Xx Dear Professor Xx: When did you first recognize that you are male and when did you start identifying as male? This is sort of a complicated question, […]
Adventures in the Genderqueer Identity
by: M. Quinn Stifler I used to believe I could never live exactly as I wanted. As I was coming into myself around the age of 11, I fantasized about […]
