Swagger

A Celebration of the Butch Experience

By Cindy Rizzo, Missouri Van, K. Aten, and more

2024

First Published

4.86

Average Rating

167

Number of Pages

5H06M

Audio Length

A Celebration of the Butch Experience Through essays, short stories, and poems, Swagger documents the butch experience by highlighting butch stories and butch voices, which often go unheard or are misunderstood. Books can be mirrors and windows—reflecting our lives back to us or opening them up to others. The writers featured in the pages inside have bravely shared their stories and their hearts with the intent that this anthology be both.

Avg Rating

4.86

Number of Ratings

5 STARS

86%

4 STARS

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Authors

Cindy Rizzo

Author · 9 books

Cindy Rizzo lives in New York City with her wife, Jennifer, and the requisite two cats issued to every lesbian household (well, most). She has worked in philanthropy for many years and has a long history of involvement in the LGBT community, including membership on the founding board of Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the organization that first brought marriage equality to the US. In the 1970s and 1980s she wrote for Boston’s Gay Community News and has published essays in the anthologies, Lesbians Raising Sons and Homefronts: Controversies in Non-Traditional Parenting. She was the co-editor of a fiction anthology, All the Ways Home, published in 1995 (New Victoria) in which her story “Herring Cove” was included. She serves on the boards of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah in New York and Funders for LGBT Issues. She and her wife have two grown sons, a wonderful daughter-in-law, and a baby granddaughter.

Award winning author and Michigan native, Kelly Aten brings extraordinary heroines to life in a variety of blended LGBTQ fiction genres, specializing in romantic speculative fiction. As a writer: I began publishing in 2018 and my will 15th novel will come out December 1, 2023. I write across the romantic genres, including science fiction, fantasy, historical, contemporary drama & rom-com, paranormal romance, dystopian, and adventure. However, my primary output is speculative fiction. Please see my website, Amazon, or anywhere my books are sold for book descriptions & updates. SOME WORDS END THE SILENCE, OTHERS BEGIN IT _____________________________________________ As a reader: My Ratings 5 Stars-The book made it into my heart and if I had to make a top 50 list of all time this book would shimmy its way in. 4 Stars- I loved the book, it was amazing. However, it's not on the elite 'favorite of all time' list. 3 Stars- This is the broadest category. I liked the book all the way to it was average. This should be a 2.5 to 3.5 section. 2 Stars- I read the book all the way through but did not like it. 1 Star- I only give a 1 if I can't finish the book because I dislike it so much. There are a few reasons for DNF. Poor plot line, poor grammar and/or spelling, or maybe just a subject I don't care for. I DO ROUND UP! Email: killerwit68@gmail.com Linktree: www.linktr.ee/katenauthor Social media: @katenauthor AO3: www.archiveofourown.org/users/katenau... “The true measure of success is in not being defined by your failures.”

Rae Theodore lives in Royersford, Pa., with her wife, children and, in stereotypical fashion, her cats. By day, she works as a staff writer for one of the world's largest communications firms. By night, she writes about living in that middle place where boy and girl collide. Her favorite day of the week is Tuesday because that's when her writers' group meets. You can read about her adventures in gender nonconformity at middleagebutch.wordpress.com.