Stone Butch Disco

This episode parachutes you down into a conversation between friends, in the style of sh*t talking they’d usually do off mic.

Rachel and Akiva discuss Akiva's listenership of Stone Butch Disco during Season 1 (episodes from which are now trickling back out to the public), gently alighting upon the matter of the project’s namesake — and everything the world needed that one bad book couldn’t give.

They discuss the MANY social groups wh...

Akiva and Rachel do the Q&A thing — whereupon Rachel has the *tiniest* breakdown over the state of the world that produced the questions. (The full arc of this has been mostly spared from listeners. Lol, we tried.)

Questions we answer:

* How do stone butches have orgasms? (Because we do. Crazy, right?)

* Why are gender dysphoria zombies such sad sacks?

* What’s the correct plural of clitorises? (Our vote’s not in the dictionary.)

* Did...

We submit here Exhibit B: recorded evidence that Akiva thoroughly persuaded Rachel of the cultural and butch importance of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (although admittedly, it didn’t take much convincing because of Rachel’s crush on Greta; hi, Greta 😍).

Within, we:

* Rip “third wave” feminism’s empty pluralism to shreds

* Become truthers for Greta Gerwig’s female realpolitik (THAT LAST LINE and credits sequence, y’all!)

* Interpret Ken’s se...

Is this butch lesbians’ day in the cultural sun?

Rachel’s mom and sister have brought her the Good News: the internet is obsessed with a butch who 1) is not a comedian and 2) by all signals of subject position, is proud to be a woman. Her name is Loretta Bush, and she can be seen for roughly 3 shining minutes in the documentary about Gabby Petito’s horrific and infuriating murder by her piece of sh*t boyfriend, American Murder: Gabb...

In an attempt to — once and for all — stake out the difference between butch lesbians and Elmo from Sesame Street, Rachel and Akiva discuss whether we are indeed fetishists overfocusing on a specific tactile experience. Other ingredients include:

* Akiva apologizes for doing the bad thing :’P

* Love for “masc” ambiguity/androgyny and hatred for the hard (read: unchanging, specific) butch

* “Feminist” misreads of butchfemme relationshi...

Rachel gives context for Stone Butch Disco’s more explicit recent politics around affirming sex-based reality for butch/femme lesbians, while still holding the sex vs. gender linguistic distinction central to SBD’s theoretical work. More to come on that front in future episodes.

We forgot to add our updated intro when we put this out earlier this week, so we’re pushing this out again for a re-rerelease.🙃 Enjoy!

We've said it before ...

Our friend Lauren of the Courage Coalition joins us to share her experiences on the steps of the Supreme Court at United States v. Skrmetti, a case that will determine states’ powers to ban child gender transition. As Lauren’s experience shows, this case is a flashpoint between gay activists and legacy civil rights organizations, as the latter realize they’re on the wrong side (sorry, ACLU volunteer, we know this is overwhelming). ...

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In this bonus episode of SBD, Akiva reads aloud her new article for SBD about her experience as a butch lesbian woman with a history of trans-identification- and her argument for moving beyond the “detrans” label. Read the article...

In this episode, Akiva and Rachel continue their butch lesbian firefighter quest and urge an immediate clarification of The Bearded Lesbian's mission, before even one more young person gets convinced that a quest for maleness = the lesbian experience. We do a deep dive into TBL’s credulous platforming of a 23-year-old trans-identified TikTokker who has been on testosterone since he was 17 but has for the last three months identifie...

Rachel and Akiva analyze various nonsense that people whose moral center is “comparison to men” are attempting to glom onto butch lesbian identity, and how acknowledging one’s biological sex doesn’t necessarily preclude misogynistic disidentification from women.

We cover:

* Our former collaborator Aaron Kimberly’s turn, contra his stated values, towards promoting voices that explicitly support medical transition

* Buck Angel’s history...

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“…on The Barry Gibb Talk Show!” (Full permission/encouragement to watch those SNL skits before you listen to this.)

In this episode, which was originally slate...

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Sam and Rachel co-chair an adventure through the hills and valleys of our recent and longstanding butch feels (including, yes, this episode's title), talk abo...

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Cowboy Jen (TikTok @cowboyjen, Instagram @cowboyjippy, Tumblr @cowboyjen68, YouTube @cowboyjen1) and Rachel pick up where our last episode left off, this time...

Cowboy Jen (TikTok @cowboyjen, Instagram @cowboyjippy, Tumblr @cowboyjen68, YouTube @cowboyjen1) drops in to talk to Rachel about lesbian friendships, solidarity in the “queer community,” her journey to butch identity, and what it's like to be Lesbian Internet Famous.

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trans misogyny /tranz spās məˈsäjənē/ (n.): internalized misogyny that expresses itself externally through disidentification with women… and asserting the right to assess a woman’s intelligence, legitimacy, or moral worth based on what your bro says

In this episode, two butch lesbians examine how it could be that the very people who assert authority on female masculinity apparently think we’re unicorns, and how an unhinged disrespec...

Note to listeners: This is a re-release from the original Stone Butch Disco pod, with a little editing :)

[An after-the-fact heads up! My (Rachel, your host's) "NSFW" content warning arrives too late in this episode to halt your progression into explicit sex talk! This probably also proves the futility of SBD content warnings.]

Have you ever sat through horrendous "lesbian porn"? Boring? Male gaze-y? Distractingly inauthentic noises?...

Jenny (@bmorefemme on Instagram) and her wife Maribel (a.k.a. MB, @bmorebutch on Instagram), a downright legendary butch-femme couple, join Sam and Rachel to discuss the Old Sex Wars, the New Sex Wars, and what it was like mail-ordering dildos in the '90s.

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Music, in order of appearance:

* "Glad It's O...

By request of several listeners and of my own heart, I made a longer-form introduction to Episode 4 that I ended up (duh, should have done this in the first place) pulling out as its own clip.

I've edited, reedited, fleshed it out, and here it is.

This minisode was prompted by some "fun" stuff on the Stone Butch Disco Instagram this week. [TL;DR: on the IG, some folks took our site's female lesbian namesake, Leslie Feinberg...

In Stone Butch Disco's first episode, Rachel and Meredith lay out the SBD project's theoretical foundations while talking about their experiences and making a combination of smart and stupid jokes.

Check out the goods, including Rachel's writing and all the merch we thought (at the time) was a good idea, at: https://www.stonebutchdisco.com

Support Stone Butch Disco and the StoneButchDisco.com lesbian writing and archi...