BOYS LOVE POETRY

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Bad Built Butch Body

Bad Built Butch Body

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Denevue/Curve magazine, Oct 1995—Untitled photo entry by Jennifer Gilmor

Ever since I can remember, I’ve had a bad built butch body. The words I’ve used to talk about my body have changed over time, but the butchness remained. Reclaim was a big tactic in my early 20s. The sky became the trans flag. ‘Dyke’ was a sharpened dagger I wielded, bounced back an…

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