History is crowded with masculine women

My book club for transmen and butch women recently read and discussed J. Halberstam’s Female Masculinity (1998). We started with the question: how would you define masculinity if not tied to men? Each of us, as the book explores, intuitively gravitates toward the concept. We are, after all, both female and masculine, and understand that if women can be masculine and men can be feminine, those characteristics are clearly not essentially connected with sex. But when tasked with

Each month, members of the Lesbros Project choose a different book to read together and then meet to discuss it. Check out what we've read so far. We welcome new members!

My study on the sexual assaults of transmen has now been completed. Below is a summary of the study design and it's key insights: Background and Research Questions Sexual assault against transmen is widely reported, with about half saying they have experienced it at some point in their lives. Most research stops at reporting these numbers. Much less is known about when these assaults take place, who commits them, or how survivors themselves make sense of what happened. As a r