Ebook {Epub PDF} Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag by A.K. Summers

 · Author A.K. Summers chronicles the journey of her pregnancy as (you guessed it) a butch woman in this autobiographical comic. The subtitle, “Nine Long Months Spent in Drag,” points to the core complication in Summers’ book: how does butchness interact and cope with the traditionally super-feminized experience of pregnancy?Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Written and illustrated by A.K. Summers, and based on her own pregnancy, Pregnant Butch strives to depict this increasingly common, but still underrepresented experience of queer pregnancy with humor and complexity—from the question of whether suspenders count as legitimate maternity wear to the strains created by different views of pregnancy within a couple and finally to a culturally critical and /5(53). ©A.K. Summers (Pregnant Butch, , Soft Skull Counterpoint) Here’s the piece you’ve been waiting for on non-normative gender parenting! Beyond Mom ‘n’ Pop by Andrea Bennett and Kim Fu, in Hazlitt Magazine. Should I be surprised that the authors are Canadian? September 5,

EL本棚紹介(8)Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag, by A.K. Summers Pregnant Butch is written and drawn like a zine. "Zines" are handmade subculture magazines with a punk style. This is a good match with Summers' experience as an "outsider". !Best Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag EPUB. Read Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag [K.I.N.D.L.E] Read Online and D0wnl0ad PDF Ebook Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag Get Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag PDF file from our online library. Have spare times? Buy Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag Illustrated by Summers, A. K. (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Praise For Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag . "This comic’s strength is its ability not to devolve into the oversentimentality or overseriousness that marks many pregnancy narratives. Instead, it forges ahead and finds complex personal meaning, and great inner strength, in the experience of bringing a child into the world. Written and illustrated by A.K. Summers, and based on her own pregnancy, Pregnant Butch strives to depict this increasingly common, but still underrepresented experience of queer pregnancy with humor and complexity—from the question of whether suspenders count as legitimate maternity wear to the strains created by different views of pregnancy. Review. A.K Summers in Pregnant Butch provides a realistic, relatable and humorous narrative into her experience of pregnancy as a butch, lesbian woman. The non-fictional graphic novel is the first by A.K Summers, “written in after the birth of her son” [1].