Stone Butch Disco

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Proud inspirers of polarized reviews. 💪 Women-authored philosophy hub. Nerd comedy. Made for butch lesbians + anyone, anywhere having conversations about sex/gender. Created by a lesbian discourse analyst, Rachel Stonecipher, and her ragtag crew of wife, sister, mom, and friends who guest star and sometimes co-host. You heard it here first. Support our work and get bonus episodes, literary resource guides, and special stuff you can wear or drink out of at https://www.patreon.com/stonebutchdisco. Check out https://www.stonebutchdisco.com for the other goods: the writing, the archives, the loud lesbian merch that seemed like a good idea at the time. On Instagram @stonebutchdisco. New episodes Friday nights!

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21 - Come At Me, Autostraddle (At Least That Way, You'll Admit Your Reality Excludes Me)

Mar 31 2024 50 mins

I declare a thumb war. (^^Rachel's description) Now for the entirely AI-generated description of this show (thanks Podbean; this is weird): [Suggested title:] Navigating Identity Confusion in the LGBTQ+ Space [NOPE, I hope more like freeing us from it] Step into the classroom of Rachel, an education professional, as she takes you on a compelling journey into the complexities of ide

20 - Scholarship Kid, Female, Betrayed

Oct 02 2023 42 mins

I got into the academic world because asking questions helped my life make sense. I found out in short order that the contemporary university system is not about asking questions -- not when it counts, and especially not when the inquirers are female. In this episode, I "talk about" (with cursing) the AAA/CASCA's late-stage cancellation of a panel titled "Let's Talk About Sex, Baby

19 - Who’s Taking Responsibility for this Ish?

Sep 17 2023 115 mins

Rachel talks podcast-making adventures. Rachel and Mac take turns expressing incredulity about the queer-industrial complex. It's a...fun?...one. Welcome to the new Stone Butch Disco/The Butch Feminist, where stream-of-consciousness talking meets feminist theory writing to create, hopefully, something worth losing jobs over. Sources mentioned in Rachel and Mac's conversation: https

18 - Alligator Mode, and Other Female Experiences (Part 2 of 2)

Jul 12 2023 98 mins

"I am giving you permission, I am giving me permission, to tell the truth." An impassioned preamble sets the scene for the second half of Rachel's conversation with Carol, about transition and detransition from a butch lesbian perspective. Together, they wax incredulous on the male-centeredness of the 2020s and, in so many words: the return of femaleness as history's purest sign of

17 - The Thrust Instinct, and Other Female Experiences (Part 1 of 2)

May 20 2023 87 mins

This week, Rachel welcomes to the pod an extremely brave butch lesbian who's an outspoken advocate for other butch lesbians despite the mountains of sh*t she catches for telling her story. Why is Carol's story taboo? Because it involves the word "detransition." In Carol's words: "My transition and detransition is firmly based around being butch and the hardship that comes from that

16 - Queer Orthodox Mind Control (Should Be the Name of Someone’s Band), with @bmorebutch and @bmorefemme

May 12 2023 125 mins

SBD is back from its New Orleans hiatus and ready to rock, riot grrrl style. Riotous grrrls/butch-femme legends MB (@bmorebutch on Instagram) and Jenny (@bmorefemme) return to the pod and invite listeners on a time machine to the lesbian 90s, where punk feminist anger is not only permitted but idolized. We talk femme and butch communicative powers, what butch elders can teach butch

15 - The Lesbian Visibility Week Intervention

Apr 26 2023 148 mins

It's Lesbian Visibility Week... Who is she, and why does she have a visibility problem? Monique Wittig warned us: "Beware of dispersal." Funny how much content has landed this week from lesbians saying they're "not like other" lesbians. Lily Cooney (@lilycooneywriter on Instagram) returns to the pod to tackle the age-old question: what's so invisible about lesbians? And, the rather

14 - “Female, Butch, 31 y/o. Will work for lesbian connection.”

Apr 18 2023 139 mins

Disembodied lesbianism, Ray Davies' masculinity, the word "butch".... What does it all MEAN??? Mac and Rachel offer some half-baked suggestions on how not to over-worry about one's own gender identity. Theory in the front, poetry in the back. Support Stone Butch Disco and the StoneButchDisco.com lesbian writing and archives project at https://www.patreon.com/stonebutchdisco. Music,

13 - Girl Data

Apr 08 2023 181 mins

The girls are not alright. And they might be, if childhood wasn't more gendered now than it's ever been in the U.S. Trust butch lesbians. We know. Speaking of which: The word "lesbian" used to refer to a group of sexed people doing a thing they weren't supposed to, not a vibe to be replaced with a different vibe. Rachel posits that a world without lesbians would be a non-natural ac

Lily Cooney on Language and Power

Apr 04 2023 1 mins

Catch the full bonus episode with Lily by joining us at https://www.patreon.com/stonebutchdisco -- we'd massively appreciate your support of the Stone Butch Disco pod, website, writing, and archives project. Rachel promises to keep it going despite recent unplanned hiatuses (hiatus-i?) due to characteristically "2023" lesbian mental health re-consolidation moments.