call to arms!

SLC Butch Mafia now Recruiting!

Overly-intellectual butch dykes currently assembling ridiculously awesome crew to fiddle with motorcycles and old cars, build tree houses, drink beer, overwhelm public bathrooms, theorize loudly about gender, strut around pool tables, wreak havoc, and stick up for each other.

NOTE: Femmes are great, but Capital-B-Butch, bulldyke, bulldagger, gender-queer, transguy, tomboy, etc is what we're after for this particular collection of folks. If you *think* you qualify, you do. Self-identification is what matters here, not what your ex-girlfriend said.

Workshops already planned for:

Dating strategies! (how to win friends and influence people into your bed)

Butch skills! (oil changes, plumbing, welding, general mechanical aptitude, attire, conversation, sports, cooking, cleaning, financial planning)

Butch etiquette! (know what to say to that asshole in the bathroom who can't figure out why you're there, which fork to use, how to whisk a femme off her feet, how to ask that other butch to date you without pissing her/hym off)

Queer History! (isn't butch just what they did in the '50s?)

Gender Theories! (learn to articulate the differences between butch and male, or between hetero- and homo- understandings of the butch/femme duality, figure out what makes butch different from trans, explain butch and femme as powerful forces for self-actualization and self-definition)

Movie Icons! (butch in cinema through the decades... Katherine Hepburn to Mary Stuart Masterson to Gina Gershon)

Anything else you want to talk about?

Wanna grab a beer?




... now we just sit back and wait...