How to Be a Pregnant Butch

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Artist A.K. Summers on her fabulous graphic memoir Pregnant Butch, and what it’s like to try to look tough and masculine while your body is growing a baby. … Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! Follow us on Instagram Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've got this book here in front of me.
0:05.1	It's paperback.
0:06.1	It's about pregnancy and childbirth.
0:09.6	And I've read a lot of books on pregnancy and childbirth.
0:12.5	And this one is hands down my favorite.
0:17.2	It's just so honest and funny.
0:19.6	And I don't mean funny in the cheesy way that some mom books can be funny.
0:24.6	It's just like straight up funny and kind of dark.
0:27.7	And it talks about the absurdity of body changes and having another person growing inside
0:33.2	of you in this way that I just haven't seen anywhere else.
0:37.3	The book is called Pregnant Butch.
0:39.5	Nine Long Months Spent in Drag.
0:42.6	It's a graphic novel, so it's drawn like a comic.
0:45.7	The characters are fictionalized.
0:48.4	But the story is based on a real woman's experience with having a baby.
0:52.8	I'm AK Summers and I'm an artist.
0:55.6	AK Summers made Pregnant Butch.
0:58.3	You can't see me on the radio, but I have a very short haircut and I wear men's clothing.
1:06.0	Do you still refer to yourself as Butch?
1:08.0	Of course.
1:09.0	I'm a lifelong Butch.
1:10.2	And can you define what that term means to you?
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