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[thebutchery]

The deadline for volume 2 of The Butchery is being extended to September 15th.

Due to busy lives and hectic schedules on the part of both our editors, we have decided to extend The Butchery deadline. If you have already submitted, don’t worry! You’ll hear from us after September 15th. If you missed the original deadline, good news! You have more time to create something for submission. Remember to check our guidelines before you send something through.

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[thebutchery]

The Butchery is about creativity, collectivity, community, and of course, butchness. It is about encouraging butches and those who love them to explore butch identity. It is about celebrating lesbian culture and history, relationship dynamics, and gender non-conformity.

We are looking for submissions of writing and art from women and NB people who live and/or love the butch life. We want to see all the ways in which butchness can be done. Mostly, we (and hopefully you) want to have some fun engaging with some creations in which butches are the heroes.

For our second volume, The Butchery is accepting submissions of:

SHORT FICTION

FLASH FICTION

NON FICTION

POETRY

ART

COMICS

Submissions for volume 2 will close on August 31st (31/08/18)

For full details, see our guidelines.

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[lesbianherstorian]

Q: what movies and tv shows have butch lesbians?

A: whew, the amount of time i spent thinking about this answer… we have so little representation. here’s a list that i’ve compiled with butch friends! please note that these characters are butches, studs, AGs, etc. and some are just tomboys – we have slim pickins, we’re dealin.

television:

snoop in the wire (2004-08)

big boo in orange is the new black (2013-18)

bullet in the killing (2013)

tammy in transparent (2014-15)

tig in one mississippi (2015-2017)

denise in master of none (2015-)***

alex and gin in dyke central (2015-)

cameron and rhea in take my wife (2016-)

susie in the marvelous mrs. maisel (2017-)

quiet ann in claws (2017-)

***love lena waithe, but aziz ansari sucks

films:

idgie in fried green tomatoes (1991)

ely in go fish (1994)

randy in the incredibly true adventures of two girls in love (1995)

corky in bound (1996)

cleo in set it off (1996)

goldie in foxfire (1996)

shirley in the watermelon woman (1996)

amy in if these walls could talk 2 (2000)

jamie in butch jamie (2007)

stella in cloudburst (2011)

alike in pariah (2011)

JJ in stud life (2012)

diggy in dope (2015)

dallas in below her mouth (2016)

katie in princess cyd (2017)

musicals and comedies:

alison in fun home (2013)

hannah gadsby in nanette (2018)

documentaries:

framing lesbian fashion (1992)

forbidden love: the unashamed stories of lesbian lives (1993)

last call at maud’s (1993)

butch mystique (2003)

the aggressives (2012)

tig (2015)

gender troubles: the butches (2016)

if you see a mistake on this list, feel free to correct it. and please add to the list if you know of any more!

[lookataleaf3000]

Terry Sapp, 1992

[thebutchery]

hi there! i really want submit something to your zine, but i wanted to check about rights, the material we submit would still belong to the creators right? I'd want to be sure of that before sending anything to you. Thanks and have a good day!

Yes, of course! All contributors retain the rights to their own work.

[thebutchery]

Do you have to be a lesbian to submit, or is The Butchery also for non-lesbian gnc ladies and enbies?

We accept submissions from any butch or butch enthusiast - which means any LGBT+ woman/NB person.

[thebutchery]

The Butchery is about creativity, collectivity, community, and of course, butchness. It is about encouraging butches and those who love them to explore butch identity. It is about celebrating lesbian culture and history, relationship dynamics, and gender non-conformity.

We are looking for submissions of writing and art from women and NB people who live and/or love the butch life. We want to see all the ways in which butchness can be done. Mostly, we (and hopefully you) want to have some fun engaging with some creations in which butches are the heroes.

For our second volume, The Butchery is accepting submissions of:

SHORT FICTION

FLASH FICTION

NON FICTION

POETRY

ART

COMICS

Submissions for volume 2 will close on August 31st (31/08/18)

For full details, see our guidelines.

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[thebutchery]

The Butchery vol. 2 SUBMISSIONS OPENING SOON

[dresdoodles]

Ever since I read The Gaze by Bee Oder in @thebutchery I wanted to draw Rachel and Nicole, or how I imagined them 💕💕💕 It’s been years since I read something that I could like… really immerse myself in! You know?? 😍

Check out Vol.1 of The Butchery here! ( x )

[thebutchery]

Amazing! It’s beautiful to see the stories inspiring people.

Dresden’s original art is also featured in our first issue ✌️✌️✌️

[thebutchery]

Will The Butchery have further issues? I really enjoyed reading this first one, and I'm also thinking about contributing in the future. Thanks :D

That’s the plan! If the response to this issue continues to be as wonderful as it has been, we’ll figure out when we can feasibly do a Volume 2!

[thebutchery]

The Butchery is available now.

The Butchery is about creativity, collectivity, community, and of course, butchness. It is about encouraging butches and the women who love them to explore butch identity. It is about celebrating lesbian culture and history, relationship dynamics, and gender non-conformity.

Our first issue features art and comics by @dresdoodles, @prongsiedraws, @awfullyruby, and @spiritintheinkwell, and writing by Sophia Bieneman, Hannah Burry, Lily Goodall, Sydney Kuntz, and Bee Oder.

Volume 1 is ready for download via Google Drive.

[thebutchery]

A great big thank you to everyone who submitted to The Butchery! We’ve finally made it to the end of the submission period. We (the contributing editors) are working hard to get the actual zine together. We’ll put out an update soon to indicate when our expected publication date is.

All contributors have been emailed with a request for their work’s title (if not yet submitted), and a 30-word creator bio. Please respond to this email A.S.A.P - the sooner you do, the sooner we’ll be able to publish! If you haven’t received the email, but did contribute, please send us this information anyway via [email protected]

We are very excited for you all to see the finished product. Our contributors really did pull out all the stops, and do some amazing work! Keep an eye out for updates, and until then,

Happy Butching!

[thebutchery]

The Butchery is a digital zine project about creativity, collectivity, community, and of course, butchness. It is about encouraging butches and the women who love them to explore butch identity. It is about celebrating lesbian culture and history, relationship dynamics, and gender non-conformity.

We have widened our submission parameters to include flash fiction - that is, fiction under 500 words.

The submission deadline for writing is still May 20th 2018.

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[thebutchery]

Submissions are closing soon - 23:59 PDT on May 20th. Get your writing in, guys. This is your last chance! 

[thebutchery]

The Butchery is a digital zine project about creativity, collectivity, community, and of course, butchness. It is about encouraging butches and the women who love them to explore butch identity. It is about celebrating lesbian culture and history, relationship dynamics, and gender non-conformity.

We have widened our submission parameters to include flash fiction - that is, fiction under 500 words.

The submission deadline for writing is still May 20th 2018.

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[irregularcollapse]

Is a zine a digital magazine?

Generally speaking, a zine is a small self-published magazine. We’re making our digital because printing costs money! We want everyone to be able to get The Butchery for free, and digital is the easiest way of doing that.

[thebutchery]

Are you still accepting poetry submissions? If so, how should they be categorized when submitting?

Yes, definitely! Just submit it as “poetry” - I hadn’t got around to amending the submission guidelines to include the category. Sorry about that.

Looking forward to reading your work!

[thebutchery]

The Butchery is a digital zine project about creativity, collectivity, community, and of course, butchness. It is about encouraging butches and the women who love them to explore butch identity. It is about celebrating lesbian culture and history, relationship dynamics, and gender non-conformity.

We recently (05/05/18) closed submissions with fewer writing contributions than we were hoping for. Because of this, we have decided to extend the deadline for writing. Art submissions are closed, thanks to a number of excellent responses.

We are now looking for submissions in the following categories:

SHORT FICTION + Original fiction at maximum length of 3000 words + No genre constraints! Any kind of world you want to write in is one we want to read

NON FICTION + Can take the form of personal essays or creative nonfiction + Maximum length 3000 words

POETRY + Maximum length of 40 lines

Any explicitly sexual or pornographic writing will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, subject to future decisions about the demographic of the collection.

The writing deadline is now 20th May 2018. Happy butching!

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