the aggressives

Rosie O’Donnell revealed on her blog today that she and her fiancée Michelle Rounds were forced to postpone their wedding when Rounds was diagnosed with rare non-cancerous but aggressive fibromatoses, also known as Desmoid tumors.

A new documentary, From the Back of the Room, focuses on women’s contributions to the DIY punk music scene. The film, produced, directed, shot, and co-edited by Amy Oden, is currently screening at festivals and features interview footage with influential acts Bikini Kill, Kylesa, Bratmobile, Tribe 8, Naked Aggression, Blatz, Le Tigre, and more.

A recent study in the journal Pediatrics shows that being raised by same sex parents is no hindrance tohealthy psychological development. The study is the first of its kind to follow children of lesbian couples from insemination to adolescence.  The results are showing that the children of the same-sex couples were more competent in school, had fewer social problems, broke fewer rules and were less aggressive.

Happy April Fool's Day! Several conservative religious groups from out of state have managed to transform Dinah Shore, the world's largest lesbian gathering and event of the year, into a "Save the Gays" conversion camp.  Due to aggressive and relentless anti-gay activism by many privately funded organizations, including a group called "Lesbians are Just Confused Straight Women," the city of Palm Springs has finally been forced to relent and allow them to drastically alter the weekend we fondly call "Tha' Dinah."

In 2009, writer Sinclair Sexsmith devised an exhaustive list called Top Hot Butches, which catalogued some super sexy masculine women (most of them self-defined as lesbian, queer, genderqueer, or aggressive). While Sexsmith continues to update the list, we got to thinking about how — aside from Rachel Maddow, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres (wait, can a Cover Girl still be called butch?) — butchy gals of all persuasions still get the short shift even in lesbian media. So, we figured we’d profile 10 butch women you should have gotten to know more of in 2011.