#stonebutch

30 yo it/its agender stone butch seeks friends and flings in WNY

likes: swimming, light hikes*, tetris, going out, smoking, making art + music, yappin, a lot more!

looking mostly for local/tri-state area but open for everyone!

@amperrsandd

Willie in his late 40s vs. his mid 20s.

Willie's fashion doesn't change much over the years, but he definitely is a side character that turned more plot heavy than I originally intended lol

His involvement with Beth is complicated, but his overarching story is one of the happier one's in 15 Mill.

like at this point i am terrified to enter a relationship cause' i fear what might happen if whoever i'm w/ isn't okay with it.

Reading about trans person with a complicated relationship with said gender, which first and foremost happens so rarely that I wept when I read the first few pages of Stone Butch Blues, means so much to me. Ze really serves as representation for me as a gender queer person that I really haven’t seen anywhere else. And not only did hir book revolve around a character like this, but ze lived that experience and fought for hir’s demographic to be represented in the LGBT community, which is a debt I know I can never repay.

I personally can’t speak for the Jewish LGBT sect of the community, but this prominent person was also Jewish, a demographic that is so severely underrepresented. And yet, here is one of the most important people in queer history, and I unapologetically stand by that, is Jewish and is so rarely talked about. I don’t doubt that there are people in our community who are so happy to see someone like them that defined this community in such a major way.

But also, Leslie Feinberg also wrote and lived the experience of being in this grey area of gender and continued to live hir truth as a lesbian, which so many people fight against now and so many other people feel as though they aren’t allowed to do, myself included. But there is no way that TERFs and gatekeepers can take our spot from the lesbian/sapphic table; Leslie made space for us so long ago, and it’s not going anywhere.

I love history and I so often ground myself in knowing the history of my people, meaning the people who made it possible for me to be here. And I consider Leslie Feinberg one of my people who paved the way for me and people like me.