Interview for the Concordia University student paper, The Link

5:02 PM Posted by Eloisa

I gave an interview to my alma mater paper, it was fun and I was very inarticulate.

The Link: Can you tell me a bit about the Butch Dykes project? When and how did you start it up?

Eloisa Aquino: Since my undergrad, I had not done anything like making a zine, but I just really love this type of independent micro-publishing thing. I decided to give it a try. I wanted to do some sort of biography because I didn't want to be writing fiction; I wanted to do a little research and do something that was reality-based. Then I went to identity politics—since I'm a dyke, though I'm not necessarily butch—but I decided to just talk about something I felt had connection with my own life, and my own identity, so decided to [write] about lesbians. Then I narrowed it down to butch dykes and finally narrowed it down even further to musicians, and that was it.

The Link: The Dykes of Micropress

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