To Be Black, Intellectual and Butch
by Adrienne “Aj” Davis
Conference Co-Chair and Board Member
Butch Voices
It took me a long time to decide what to say about being a black butch woman. A great deal has already been said, rivers of ink have flowed and countless electrons sent whizzing around the Internet, in the name of defining and illustrating what it is to be butch. However, there’s an image of butchness that is rarely seen or even recognized: what of the butch intellectual?
