Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme Childbirth and Parenting Suzette is forced to confront

Suzette is forced to confront her past mistakes and find a way to help her brother before he hurts himself--or worse

national civil rights victories in decades--the legalization of same-sex marriage

friendship

Gwen Jamison has been attracted to her best friend Taylor for years but has kept her feelings masked as friendship

reminding us that Greedy was a superpower all along

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme Childbirth and Parenting Suzette is forced to confrontLambda Literary Award finalist American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch femme conversation. The result is Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories