joan nestle on butch/femme dynamics in the lesbian almanac compiled by the national museum & archive of lesbian and gay history, 1996
[image description: a page from The Lesbian Almanac reading:
BUTCH/FEMME: Butch-femme relationships, as I experienced them, were complex erotic statements, not phony heterosexual replicas. They were filled with a deeply Lesbian language of stance, dress, gesture, loving, courage, and autonomy. – Joan Nestle, 1981]
knitting in the dark 