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  1. Femme Shark Communique #1

     
    Collection: Zines
    Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project
    Creator: Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, Mahmood, Zuleikha
    Date: 2008
    Topics: Body image, Butches, Classism, Eating disorders, Ethnic groups, Feminism, Femmes, Group leaders, Healing, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Mental disorders, Prisons, Racism, Self-image, Sex industry, Sexual violence, Soft butches, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Assatta Shakur, Born in Flames, Chrystos, Girl fight, Gloria Anzaldua, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Marlon Riggs, Michelle Obama, Sylvia Rivera, The Fat Femme Mafia, Tongues Untied, Young Soul Rebels
  2. Interview with Valerie Spencer

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Spencer, Valerie
    Date: Oct. 5, 2017
    Topics: African American transgender people, Assigned gender, Bullying, Butches, Christianity, Clothing, Depression, Drag queens, Employment discrimination, Exorcism, Families, Families, Black, Femininities, Heteronormativity, HIV/AIDS, Identity politics, Intersectionality (Sociology), Labeling, Language, Marriage, Medical interventions, Medicalisation, Privilege (Social psychology), Psychic trauma, Racism, Role behavior, Role models, Schools, Self-care, Health, Social advocacy, Soft butches, Support groups, Therapies, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Janet Mock, Laverne Cox, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center of Color
    Description: Valerie Spencer is a Black woman (trans) from LA. At the time of the interview, she was working on a Masters in Social Work at One Spirit Interfaith Seminary. In the interview, she discusses her di...
  3. Lesbian Masquerade

     
    Collection: Ephemera
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 1979
    Topics: Butches, Crossdressing, Lesbians, Passing (Gender), Soft butches
    Subject: Allan Berube
    Description: Item originally collected by Lou Sullivan.
  4. Lesbian Sex/Gay Sex What's the Difference

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Creet, J.
    Date: Winter 1991
    Topics: Activists, Butches, Drag queens, Feminism, Gay rights, Homosexuality, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTI rights, Sexuality, Sodomy laws, Soft butches
    Subject: Ontario Human Rights Code
  5. Letter from Bet Power to Lou Sullivan (June 30, 1988)

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Power, Bet, Power, Ben
    Date: Jun. 30, 1988
    Topics: Butches, Career development, Crossdressing, Cruising (LGBTQ+ culture), FtMs, Isolation, Leather community, Letters, LGBTQ+ lovers, Loneliness, SM, Soft butches, Support groups, Therapies
    Subject: Aria, Barbara Gittings, Ben Power, Bet Power, Blush Productions, Butch, FTM Newsletter, Fun with a Sausage, Joan Nestle, Jonathan Katz, Lou Sullivan, New Alexandria Lesbian Library, Smith College, The Ladder
    Description: Handwritten draft of letter included.
  6. Letter from Bet Power to Lou Sullivan (March 4, 1987)

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Power, Bet, Power, Ben
    Date: Mar. 4, 1987
    Topics: Alcoholism, Androgyny, BDSM, Body building, Butches, Clothing, Crossdressers, Discrimination, Femininities, FtMs, Gender identity, Lesbian community, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ lovers, Marriage, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Photographs, Sadism, Sexual orientation, Soft butches, Therapies, Transsexual people
    Subject: Ben Power, Bet Power, Information for the Female to Male Crossdresser and Transsexual, Lou Sullivan, New Alexandria Lesbian Library, SF Lesbian and Gay History Project
    Description: Five photographs and draft included with letter.
  7. Letter from Bet Power to Lou Sullivan (November 16, 1986)

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Power, Bet, Power, Ben
    Date: Nov. 16, 1986
    Topics: Butches, FtMs, Lesbians, Letters, Self-help, Soft butches, Transsexual people
    Subject: Ben Power, Bet Power, Information for the Female to Male Crossdresser and Transsexual, Lou Sullivan, New Alexandria Lesbian Library
    Description: Handwritten response written by Lou Sullivan at the bottom of the letter.
  8. Letter from Lou Sullivan to Bet Power (April 30, 1988)

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Sullivan, Lou
    Date: Apr. 30, 1988
    Topics: Butches, Demonstrations, FtMs, Gay pride, Health, Hormones, Soft butches, Spirituality, Support groups, Surgery, Transsexual people, Transvestites
    Subject: All of Me, Alyson, Ben Power, Bet Power, FTM Newsletter, Fun with a Sausage, Gayle Rubin, Ira B. Pauly, Lily Tomlin, Lou Sullivan, Second Serve, Shane Harley, Vanessa Redgrave
    Description: Envelope included.
  9. Letter from Lou Sullivan to Bet Power (May 2, 1987)

     
    Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection
    Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives
    Creator: Sullivan, Lou
    Date: May 2, 1987
    Topics: Bars, Butches, Crossdressers, FtMs, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Lesbian community, Lesbians, Liberation movements, MtFs, Self-acceptance, Soft butches, Surgery, Therapies, Transvestites
    Subject: Ben Power, Bet Power, Kim Stuart, Lou Sullivan, The Uninvited Dilemma: A Question of Gender
    Description: Envelope included.
  10. Murder in the Women's Army Corps

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: Bérubé, Allan, Bond, Pat
    Date: Summer 1991
    Topics: Anti-lesbian violence, Army, Butches, Lesbians, Soft butches, Suicide
    Subject: Coming Out Under Fire (Book), Murder in the WAC (Play), Pat Bond
  11. Not a Joking Matter

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 1985 to Sep. 1985
    Topics: Abuse, Advice columns, Butches, Ethnic groups, Feminism, Gender, Gender role, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Patriarchy, Soft butches, Transgender people
    Subject: Dear Butch, I Know You Know
  12. Raw Vulva #2

     
    Collection: Zines
    Institution: Queer Zine Archive Project
    Creator:
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Butches, Femmes, Horoscopes, Lesbians, Letters, Soft butches, Transgender people
    Subject: Critical Mass, Red Dora's Bearded Lady
  13. Renaissance News, Vol 7. No. 8 (August 1993)

     
    Collection: Renaissance News & Newsletters
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Renaissance Education Association
    Date: Aug. 1993
    Topics: Activists, Anti-semitism, Butches, Censorship, Clothing, Coming out, Counseling, Crossdressing, DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), Femininities, FtMs, Gender role, Gender swapping, Herstory, Lesbians, Letters, LGBTQ+ radio, Marriage, Marxism, Mixed-orientation marriage, MtFs, Politics, Popular culture, Pornography, Self-image, Soft butches, Sports, Transsexual people, Upbringing
    Subject: Leslie Feinberg, March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, Qwonta Jones, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Transgender Liberation: A Movement whose Time has Come, Workers World Party