Butch Visibility at Agnes Scott College - CaptainPeanut and Reverend Pussycat

These videos explain the findings of our project on butch visibility at Agnes Scott. To conduct our research, we sent out a survey to Agnes Scott students, asking questions about their definitions of the word "butch," what a butch person looks like, and what (if any) connotations the term carries. Thirty-one students responded to the survey. While this is a fairly small number of people, we felt as though the answers they gave us were varied enough to provide us with a somewhat accurate depiction of the opinions of ASC students as a whole. We also looked into the visibility and accessibility of books in the ASC library centered around "butch". To do this, we spoke with a librarian and browsed the shelves of the library.
This project is relevant to queer theory because it addresses homonormative ideas of how looking or acting a certain way almost automatically earns someone a label (this is something we have discussed in class). The project also looks at how butch individuals are queered in the Agnes Scott community.