Pregnant Butch

A fascinating look into a fascinating experience: Being a pregnant butch woman. I like my biographies a little more tightly woven, but loved the art and the story is kind of a must-read if you're interested in gender presentation at all.

This was an interesting read, potentially with a misleading title. This was not so much about the performance* of being pregnant while identifying as a masculine lesbian, as it was just about BEING pregnant while in the body one inhabits, and that experience through the lens of butch identity, which was a perspective I hadn't seen before.

*and by performance I mean that not a lot of time is spent on how people outside the author's partner and community perceived her pregnancy; most of it was internalized processing of what it meant to be masculine and also participating in this, the Pinnacle of All Things Womanly or whatever.

I liked the artwork; obviously we're seeing how the author perceived her pregnant body, so the artwork is pretty graphic, but not overly sexualized. The book was also a bit dated in its terminology and attitudes, especially towards transgender identity, which the author addresses in a note at the beginning.