Butch Heroes (Mit Press) Saqi Books It helps that she’s observed

It helps that she’s observed her friends’ relationship drama so she knows exactly what mistakes not to make

Never without an edge of self-awareness

his future uncertain

this was the first time her story had been told

Butch Heroes (Mit Press) Saqi Books It helps that she’s observedPortraits and texts recover lost queer history: the lives of people who didn't conform to gender norms, from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries. "A serious and seriously successful queer history recovery project." Publishers Weekly Katherina Hetzeldorfer, tried "for a crime that didn't have a name" (same sex sexual relations) and sentenced to death by drowning in 1477; Charles aka Mary Hamilton, publicly whipped for impersonating a man in