Stone Butch Disco

About Stone Butch Disco

Proud inspirers of polarized reviews. 💪 Women-authored philosophy hub. Nerd comedy. Made for butch lesbians + anyone, anywhere having conversations about sex/gender. Created by a lesbian discourse analyst, Rachel, and her ragtag crew of butch, femme, and ally friends who guest and sometimes co-host. You heard it here first. Support our work and get bonus episodes, literary resource guides, and special stuff you can wear or drink out of at https://www.patreon.com/stonebutchdisco. Check out https://www.stonebutchdisco.com for the other goods: the writing, the archives, the loud lesbian merch that seemed like a good idea at the time. On Twitter @stonebutchdisco. stonebutchdisco.substack.com (https://stonebutchdisco.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Stone Butch Disco

Category

comedy · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

14 Jan 2023

Latest episode

21 Jun 2025

Latest episodes

50 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Jun 2025

   S2 E12: Grounded Confidence in the Era of "Pride"

   Hosts Rachel and Akiva dismantle pronoun usage and analyze societal institutions, highlighting bravery within Pride, the erasure of sex-based realities, and the complexities of butch identity in relation to gender and language.

2. 

   6 Jun 2025

   S1 E9: Fighting Intellectual Sexism with Elle Cooney [Rerelease; New intro]

   Elle Cooney discusses the importance of centering women in thought and fighting intellectual sexism that silences female voices, in an interview with Rachel, exploring queer identity and gender dynamics.

3. 

   17 May 2025

   S2 E11: Butch Semiotics, the Study of Butch Signs

   Are you attracted to feminine lesbians but doubting they’re into you? Sick of shuffling through a never-ending cycle of gender euphoria and gender dysphoria? Plagued by the need to tell people you’re butch? Keep naming the thing, and can’t feel a damn thing? After thoroughly attempting (and giving up on) the 21st century quest to stick a flag in “euphoria” wherever it can be labeled, we present an alternative to the glazed-eye dopamine mirage of something like “butch euphoria”: living over naming. We’re sick of the late-capitalist consumerist impulse of “If I want it, I can have it,” writ online as “Whatever I name, we are the same.” Grounding our identities on what we do, rather than what we see, transforms butchness into a connection rather than an idealization. The meaning of our butchness is co-constructed with our femme partners, and the only reason we wave that flag on this podcast is so butch-femme butches and femmes know they can trust themselves. In this episode, we discuss the constant pressure of postmodern consumerism to de(con)struct the real, grounded, sexual, lesbian meaning of butch and femme, and replace it with an aesthetic that anyone, male or female, gay or straight, can buy off the shelf. We explain why aesthetic definitions of butch or femme, even when addressed to female humans alone, are a slippery slope in postmodernland, and how that slope slipped us to this godforsaken 2025 wasteland in which butch-femme sexual specificity has to answer to everything else. Before we sign off, we take on Gayle Rubin’s “Charmed Circle,” or as we prefer to call it, the “Bad Wheel of Sex” — a fundamentally strange diagram, both emblematic and foundational of the toxic queer theory that argued having morals and being a homosexual were incompatible experiences. No one should have written something so aligned with male-authored continental philosophy and then have asked lesbians to accept it. Ergo, no more letting dead/old white men tell us nothing means anything (that includes you, Ray Blanchard). All women share a realm of female sexuality, structured by our own, not male, embodiment — and we need the exclusive territory to explore it. No gatekeeping = no depth. We’ll take the living of life over bland acceptance of our nametags any day. Website: https://www.StoneButchDisco.com (https://www.StoneButchDisco.com) Substack: https://stonebutchdisco.substack.com/ (https://stonebutchdisco.substack.com/) Get in touch with us at stonebutchdisco@gmail.com (mailto:stonebutchdisco@gmail.com) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stonebutchdisco.substack.com/subscribe (https://stonebutchdisco.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.1 / 5

49 ratings

Spotify

4.2 / 5

96 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

74

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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