Butch Heroes by Ria Brodell

Visual artist Brodell delivers an ambitious and wonderfully celebratory ode to the lives of 28 people over many centuries 'assigned female at birth' who 'had documented relationships with women, and whose gender presentation was more masculine than feminine'…This is a serious—and seriously successful—queer history recovery project. ~ Publishers Weekly
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The ultimate addition to the queer canon, Brodell's Butch Heroes marries comprehensive annotations of queer lives forgotten by history, with exquisite depictions of their most heroic and intimate moments as imagined by the artist. Fashioned as an album of Catholic holy cards, justice is made to our queer foreparents, by making their struggles visible and elevating their accomplishments to heroic status.

Gonzalo CasalsDirector of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art