Modern Times Books

Butch Voices is thoroughly pleased to be able to partner with Modern Times Books, our official bookseller on-site at the Butch Voices Conference in Oakland.

Modern Times Books, located at 888 Valencia Street in San Francisco, is a progressive resource for the Bay Area and a neighborhood bookstore for the Mission. Collectively operated since 1971, we are a vibrant progressive and literary bookstore offering wide-ranging literature on globalization, politics and media, as well as an array of graphic novels, fiction, and criticism. We are proud to offer some of the best queer/trans and feminist sections of any bookstore in the Bay Area, and feature one of the Bay Area’s most extensive collections of writings on Latina/o history and culture, including a full selection of Spanish language books. And did we mention our children’s books? Modern Times also fosters a vital literary community with an exciting calendar of events, a blog, and community resources. We are a surviving, thriving indie bookstore in the face of chain stores and Amazon, a fiercely queer and radical community hotspot, and a place where independent literature is in bloom. We’re proud to be Butch Voices official bookseller. We look forward to attendees checking out conference presenters’ books and browsing a fine selection of books andmagazines by and about butch lives, butch/femme cultures, identities and sexualities, queer and trans liberation, erotica and more!

BUTCH Voices Video Contest Results

We are grateful to all of our participants in the first BUTCH Voices Video Contest. For a look at all of the submitted videos please visit our YouTube Group.

Our 1st place contestant in the BUTCH Voices Video Contest is Linda Miller for her video, “I Know, I Know, I Know.”

Our 2nd place contestant in the BUTCH Voices Video Contest is GoddesBoi for her video “Stonebutch, Studs and the Papi Syndrome.”

Congratulations to Linda and GoddesBoi

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Schedule Overview

It’s finally here! The Conference Schedule!

Thank you for being so patient as we crank out this conference schedule. Below you’ll find an overveiw of our entire program, including prices, times and locations. Check back often for updates as we will be filling in the last details in the coming weeks. 

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BUTCH Voices Video Contest Results

We are grateful to all of our participants in the first BUTCH Voices Video Contest. For a look at all of the submitted videos please visit our YouTube Group.

1st Place

New Song:” I Know, I Know, I Know”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec371YVeh5Y

by Linda Miller (aka IamBadger)

Our 1st place contestant in the BUTCH Voices Video Contest is Linda Miller for her video, “I Know, I Know, I Know.” We felt this piece was an awesome example of the complexity that is Butch identity.  In this piece Miller offers a song she’s written about a lover whom “she knows” she’s not right for, as she croons, “I’m not the one you need.”

Further, Miller who took advantage of our offer to post more than one submission, offers a body of videos that give a cross section of intimate sketches of herself and her work that are honest, thoughtful and sincere, including a piece entitled “Who is Linda Miller.”
About Linda:

I am a soon to be 50 year old. I am a medical professional, surgical technician to be exact. I have been a surgical  tech for 28 years. I dabble at the singer songwriter thing here in Nashville, TN.

My interests are in music, making videos, producing videos, photography, computers (Macbook), the paranormal, any thing about motorcycles, and Femmes.
It has taken me a few years in becoming comfortable in my own skin. I have always been butch, but have not always understood what that meant. With my own acceptance of who I was, who I am, and learning to love myself came the freedom that I needed to let myself just be. I am Linda Miller, I am butch, but it is all one in the same, and much much more.

2nd Place
Stonebutch, Studs, and the “Papi syndrome”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec371YVeh5Y

by GoddesBoi (Webmaster of wwww.butchculture.com)
Our 2nd place contestant in the BUTCH Voices Video Contest is GoddesBoi for her video “Stonebutch, Studs and the Papi Syndrome.” We felt this piece was on point and insightful, offering a perspective we don’t often hear. We appreciated listening as Charita talks about butch stereotypes and why she resists them.  It’s also great to have the perspective of an elder woman of color.
Thank you to all who participated in this contest, and we look forward to seeing Linda and Goddes Boi at the conference in Oakland.

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