BUTCH; not Like the other girls- Portraits

Exploration of the liminal space female masculinity still occupies in society, Butch is an inclusive site of resistance to how gender continues to be defined: “Female masculinity is a particularly fruitful site of investigation because it has been vilified by heterosexist & feminist…programs alike: unlike male femininity, which fulfills a kind of ritual function…female masculinity is generally received by…normative cultures as a pathological sign of misidentification & maladjustment, as a longing to be & to have a power that is always just out of reach” —J Halberstam Treatment: Collaborating With the subject. Minimalist. Humorous Romanticism. Minimalist background. Intimate. No distractions. Stop. Breathe; A great portrait happens when they reveal something I fall in love with & then share that with you. These honor the mercurial beauty, power & diversity of women who transgress the gender binary. We’re bombarded every day with the message that we’re wrong & barely human. I want to counter that; I want them to be seen as glorious in their myriad styles of butchitude. I want these photos to make butches feel the way my late femme wife Catherine made me feel: disastrously handsome.