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”
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.
