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Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag Paperback – March 18, 2014

by A. K. Summers (Author)

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First pregnancy can be a fraught, uncomfortable experience for any woman, but for resolutely butch lesbian Teek Thomasson, it is exceptionally challenging.

Teek identifies as a masculine woman in a world bent on associating pregnancy with a cult of uber-femininity. Teek wonders, Can butches even get pregnant?”

Of course, as she and her pragmatic femme girlfriend Vee discover, they can. But what happens when they do? Written and illustrated by A.K. Summers, and based on her own pregnancy, Pregnant Butch strives to depict this increasingly common, but still underrepresented experience of queer pregnancy with humor and complexityfrom the question of whether suspenders count as legitimate maternity wear to the strains created by different views of pregnancy within a couple and finally to a culturally critical and compassionate interrogation of gender in pregnancy.

Offering smart, ambitious art, this graphic memoir is a must-read for would-be pregnant butches and anyone interested in the intersection of birth and gender, as well as a perfect queer baby shower gift and conversation starter for those who always assumed they got” being pregnant.

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"This comic’s strength is its ability not to devolve into the oversentimentality or overseriousness that marks many pregnancy narratives. Instead, it forges ahead and finds complex personal meaning, and great inner strength, in the experience of bringing a child into the world. Summers’s voice is fresh, honest, biting, and funny."Library Journal

"Summers is a good storyteller [and] in the best way, this story is a coming of age story . . . It’s hard not to melt when you meet her present family at the end of the book." Buzzfeed

"Having a baby is a macho and delicate business, and A.K. Summers’ Pregnant Butch shows how it’s done with exquisite glory."Jennifer Camper, editor of Juicy Mother

"I very much enjoyed reading Pregnant Butch. It's thoroughly engrossing and often very funny. I found a surprising amount to identify with, even though I will never be a butch lesbian or pregnant. Ms. Summers' book is happily recommended."Howard Cruse, author of Stuck Rubber Baby

"Poignant and accomplished, A.K. Summers' Pregnant Butch is also fascinating. Revealing what it was like to be butch and pregnant, she questions how we inhabit roles that get at the core of our sense of selfand how we make them our own even when they are freighted with convention. Furthermore, Summers's deft artwork has great appeal: her line is a charming cross between Hergé and the Hernandez brothers." Hillary Chute, author of Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics

"A.K. Summers’ Pregnant Butch is a Tintin lookalike who embarks down the path to motherhood. If you made it through that sentence without your head spinning, then you’re ready for one of the weirdest, wonderful-est pregnancy memoirs out there. Employing a variety of art styles (think Hergé meets Jaime Hernandez, with a little Jack Kirby thrown in for fun), Summers has crafted a wry, wise tale that guarantees a chuckle on every page. Pregnant Butch is an unsentimental, no-holds-barred book filled with insight and genuine feeling. (And you know you want to see Tintin pregnant!)Josh Neufeld, author of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge

About the Author

Yvonne Bynoe has written and lectured extensively on politics, culture and economics and how those topics are often framed by popular culture. Bynoe is the author of the books, The Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture, which that chronicles the history of the genre, Stand & Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership and Hip Hop Culture, and Who's Your Mama?

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1593765401
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Soft Skull (March 18, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781593765408
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593765408
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.3 x 10 inches

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Kaitlyn Morar

A unique perspective

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2017

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I throughly enjoyed the author's humorous and truthful style of story telling. The graphic novel, in three parts, documents the fictional (although based on real events) pregnancy of Teek, a butch lesbian, and her partner Vee. The graphic novel bluntly describes the struggles of pregnancy-- on the body and the mind of the main character. Pregnant Butch contains unglorified depictions of pregnancy and the pregnant butch body. While I am not a lesbian nor have I ever been pregnant, but I still found this story to be very relatable and enjoyable. Worth a read.

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Great memoir

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2014

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Pregnant Butch is funny, endearing, honest, and tolerant -- and also bitchy, sharp, uncompromising, and confronting. (The graphic art is great -- and a masteful play on TinTin.) It teaches without sanctimony or jargon-ridden. Every parent or parent to be -- emphatically including straight men -- should read it.

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Karina

Different view Point

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2021

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What I liked about this read was that it seemed like a genuine thoughts and feelings and emotions of a women whom both Society and herself had this image of. She was going thru changes and documented her experience as a queer, butch women which honestly how often can we say that side of things gas been spoken about.Overall its a good read I would read again and share with others. It’s a fun but informative read.

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Brett

Fantastic! Get this book.

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2014

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Never written a review before, but had to for this unbelievably wonderful graphic memoir. The artwork is amazing. I'm a straight parent of three, and I can say unreservedly that this is a universal story albeit told from a very personal point of view. Summers shies away from nothing and exposes the dark underbelly (so to speak) of pregnancy and childbirth, while also being laugh-out-loud funny. The only bummer about this book is that it was over too soon. Can't wait for more from this author/artist.

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Hospice Mom

Good read

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2019

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Highly recommend this book. Was honest and funny as well to follow authors journey through their pregnancy.

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Human Shield

Deserves more than three stars, but currently suffers from criminally bad formatting

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2017

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I like the art style, but currently, the book seems to be missing half its pages. To be fair, they're not exactly missing - it's just that every alternate page has been rendered as a teeny tiny thumbnail below the main page. Took me a while to realize this - I just assumed the story wasn't meant to be a single coherent narrative but a bunch of peeks into the life of the author/main character during this period in their life. I figured the little pictures at the bottom of each page were just, I dunno, thumbnails for the next page (hey, stranger things have happened). However, some of them contained enough detail for me to finally figure out that they were neither a copy of the current page nor the next one.

Maybe this works OK on the Kindle Fire or the PC reader, but on the e-reader, it is crap. Hopefully, they will fix this, because this book deserves more than three stars.

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Zootie

Fresh, Original, Honest and Funny Memoir

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2016

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I'm a midwife and I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's honest and funny. Maybe we're in a different place in terms of gender nowadays . . . maybe not so much. Regardless, this is a unique memoir of pregnancy from a fresh perspective.

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Kendall

and I really enjoyed it. I gave it to my girlfriend afterwards ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2014

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I bought this because I was excited over it being an LGBT graphic novel, and I really enjoyed it. I gave it to my girlfriend afterwards (she identifies as butch) to read which she claims to have been very insightful. Good read and would definitely recommend!

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