*** News Hot Off The Press ***
hotpencil press in association with The Drakes presents
The Butch Monologues
Hot on the
heels of There Is No Word For It – The (Trans) Mangina Monologues, hotpencil press
presents a brand new collection of stories recording the female masculine
experience. The Butch Monologues uses
verbatim interviews with Butch Identified women living in the UK, Europe, USA,
Australia and the Caribbean. The Butch
Monologues re-positions the negative, socially threatening concept of female
masculinity into a place of pride. Following the footsteps of Judith (Jack)
Halberstam (Female Masculinity) and
Leslie Feinberg (Stone Butch Blues),
hotpencil shake off old terminology and reposition Butch. In punchy sections to
be read out loud, The Butch Monologues explores
butch identity, sex and sexuality with a no-holes bared approach. Using urgency
and humour, this unique collection offers fresh language and intonation on butch beginnings, butch desire and desirability, butch bravado and
vulnerability, butch on femme sex, butch on butch sex, switches, stones, violence, heroes and clothing.
Readings will feature the
Drakes: the UK’s first butch members group.
“It’s a love letter. It’s a
manifesto. It’s a way of life.”
The Butch
Monologues
Review for hotpencil press’s There Is No Word For It
“It is poignant, bawdy, lyrical
and sometimes terrifying.”
Roz Kaveney, Times Literary
Supplement.
www.hotpencilpress.com
[hotpencil> press
Details to follow.
Private View,The Bell. Liverpool Street, 6th March, 2014.
World Premiere, WOW festival, The Southbank. 8th March, 2014.
