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I’ve been out as a lesbian for a year and I know that doesn’t measure up to how much other people have been out for, but even if you’ve been out for the majority of your life it’s still incomparable to the time the community has existed for. So how dare you come around and start policing people’s identities and expressions that have existed for much longer than you’ve been alive, let alone a part of the community? How dare you try to exclude the very same people who fought for your liberation way before your parents had even been born? Maybe the goal really is to live in a world where we could take our rights for granted, and maybe some of you really do, but doing it right now, when a big part of the community is still at constant risk being attacked from every front, when the biggest fights we had happened only a few generations ago? Definitely not the time.

Maybe I am new but I don’t think I will ever be able to understand where you can get the audacity to tell people who have literally built the ground you stand on that they are not welcomed anymore. And I know no one needs to admit you into the community, but you just seem to conveniently forget the whole reason it exists in the first place. It’s fucking embarrassing and really fucking shameful.

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writing about But I'm a Cheerleader in my paper has now resulted in me rewatching 3 times now.... something gay needs to happen to me or ill explode :(

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80’s Business Lady Nadja you will always be famous!

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working class femmes of the world unite!

having a working class job doesn't make you less femme !!!!!

propaganda I’m NOT falling for:

• every femme/fem has to have a kawaii, housewife or 50s persona

• femmes/fems are clueless, can’t/don’t know how to do physical labor, blue collar jobs, etc

• femmes/fems are weaker and skinnier than their partners, more mentally stable, or their disabilities don’t hold the same weight as the ones of their masculine partners

• femmes/fems should have long hair, long nails, etc

• there is a right and wrong way to be femme

• femininity comes in a solid mold that can’t be changed or bent

• every butch/masc/stud you meet is to immediately be considered the top/dominating one

• butches/mascs/studs who are bottoms and for their femmes need to be ashamed of it

• butches/mascs/studs should be the financial providers while femmes/fems are the emotional ones

• every stone person is stone thanks to trauma

• every stone person owes you their history or a valid explanation for what made them who they are

• in order to be an adult and in a relationship, you need to completely erase your childhood wonder by repressing the kid inside of yourself who had dreams, likes and dislikes, and can still find some type of magic in everything

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Butches at pride ⚢🌈🏍️🕶️⛓️

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i love coming on the tumblr in the morning with a cup of tea like its the news paper

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happy pride month to femmes! femmes with weird gender! femmes with coily + curly hair! femmes who aren’t white and skinny! femmes with accents they might not like! femmes who like being called boyfriend! femmes who find makeup overstimulating! femmes who enjoy dressing masc over fem! femmes with physical disabilities! femmes who aren’t stereotypical femme! stone top femmes! high femmes!

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the butch-femme icons i wanna be so bad

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Mount Holyoke College students

at Pride in Northampton, MA (1989)

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need to give a butch kisses rn :(

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well. yes!

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a mãe de rock e a santa de ovelhas negras

Rita Lee (1970)

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Tough mascs soft butches hard soft tough .. AUGH! We are PEOPLE we are HUMANS multifaceted, three dimensional humans. No one is just one thing. We don’t talk abt femmes like this why are you doing it to us??? We are not a commodity you buy off the shelf. I am just a butch? Sometimes soft sometimes hard and a thousand other things. Be my safe place and I will show you??

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currently writing a paper on the history of lesbian camp but there’s like less than 100 sources which is really helpful,, anyways shout out all the lesbians and bi women of history 🫶

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i just want a butch wife to grow old with, being an elder lesbian is the greatest gift

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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

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I love going on passionate rants about lesbians.