“Butches and Barbers” with Melissa Hidalgo

Do you know what it feels like for a butch? Join Dr Melissa Hidalgo (California State University) and me for a brief interlude between Lesbian Lives panels to find out. Melissa is interested in barbershops, pubs, sports venues and other typically male connoted spaces. She explores how inclusive they are for female, butch, and brown bodies and shares some of her own experiences of California vs Ireland. Hot tip: If you need better language to tell your barber how you want your hair cut, listen now. Lad it up! Follow @DrBeerButch and @Lena_Mattheis on Twitter, and @lifes_a_butcha and @queerlitpodcast on Instagram, for more queer content and gay haircuts. Texts and people mentioned: James Joyce’s Ulysses Davy Byrnes Bloomsday Melissa Hidalgo’s “What it feels like for a butch” Gay Mag (2019) https://gay.medium.com/what-it-feels-like-for-a-butch-3ba9ded6f126 Roxanne Gay Alfred Arteaga’s House of the Blue Bed Melissa Hidalgo’s Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands (Headpress UK, 2016) San Patricio or Saint Patrick’s Batallion La Virgen de Guadalupe St Brigid of Kildare Chris Abani’s Virgin of Flames Cherrie Moraga’s Native Country of the Heart