{"id":979,"date":"2010-05-08T14:24:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T19:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=979"},"modified":"2010-05-08T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T19:24:37","slug":"a-persistent-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"A Persistent Desire&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apersistentdesire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Persistent Desire<\/a> is a feature length documentary film that celebrates and affirms  butch and femme identities and dynamics in the 21st century. In this clip, author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewellegomez.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jewelle Gomez<\/a> describes her take on the butch\/femme dynamic (clip opens in a new window):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apersistentdesire.com\/jewelle.mov\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-978 aligncenter\" title=\"jewelle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/jewelle.jpg?resize=216%2C158\" alt=\"Author Jewelle Gomez\" width=\"216\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apersistentdesire.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> to view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apersistentdesire.com\/clips.html\" target=\"_blank\">more clips<\/a> and find out about this film project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Persistent Desire is a feature length documentary film that celebrates and affirms butch and femme identities and dynamics in the 21st century. In this clip, author Jewelle Gomez describes her take on the butch\/femme dynamic (clip opens in a new window): Visit the website to view more clips and find out about this film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMmJz-fN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":952,"url":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=952","url_meta":{"origin":979,"position":0},"title":"Call For Submissions: BUTCH Voices 2010 Regional Conferences","author":"","date":"April 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"BUTCH Voices is a national organization composed of social justice activists who share a commitment to building inclusive community for self-identified Butches, Studs, Tombois, Machas, Aggressives, our partners and allies. 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