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wanting to love without the physical, wanting the physical without it affecting the love

eloise klein healy x salman toor hanif willis-abdurraqib x x

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"dreaming up someone like you" butch for butch, yearning, dreaming

deborah miranda

x

the vaccines

arctic monkeys

sonya ilya kaminsky

my writing

diane mariefield

carol queen

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gender, sexuality, butchness

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"butches and our ways of not saying anything" poetry instead of vulnerability

My poetry!

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"with you I don't mind any terms because I know you see me well enough to use them all correctly" community, friendship, butch and trans man solidarity

Jacqueline Woodson

Chloe Liese

Caitlyn Siehl

X

The Mountain Goats

Defiance, Ohio

George Sand

Caravaggio + Elisabeth ohlson wallin

Leslie Feinberg

Rose Mannie

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Girls Will Be Boys by Sophia Wallace

I began Girls will be Bois, 2002-2007 because I was compelled to create a testament to my living history as a lesbian whose partners are often on the butch and masculine spectrum.

Butchness, particularly butch BIPOC are targeted with violence, repressed historically, and ignored by the media. Everywhere from popular culture to the law, female masculinity is treated as failed femininity – a monstrosity.

It was vital to me that I document and create a visual testimony of my community that could not be denied. As a queer photographer I felt that my medium was the best way to intervene in the ongoing attempt to marginalize my community. I also lost a friend during this time which had a profound impact on me. Kim, a young butch lesbian, tragically died from a brain aneurysm at 24 years old. Kim’s partner Michelle who had been with her virtually every day during the two years they were together, was not invited to the funeral where Kim was buried in pink suit and coffin with heavy makeup.  Kim’s history is like that of so many queer people. Written by those who seek to deny it.

Girls Will be Bois will always be a historical project for me. Losing a friend and watching another friend be written out of her partner’s life, was a painful reality check about what was at stake if we do not record our own stories.

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"lord I can't take it, can't take any love" attachment issues, fear of love

Florence + the machine

Lyrics by daughter / edit by griefmother on insta

Mitski

Stephen Dunn

jeanette winterson

The Amazing devil

Eagles

Virginia Woolf

Butchrat / my own writing

Sue Zhao

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Can you do a web weaving about parental disconnect as a queer kid

"what's an abandoned child to do but learn to live alone" queerness, parents

X

Keaton St. James

Amatullah Bourdon

Pere Llobera

Chen chen

X

Stevie Edward's

Sylvia plath

Selma Deera

Nana Grizol

(noticed the credits are in the wrong direction after posting, will fix at some point, read credits down to up for now)

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hi! may i request a web weaving about feeling unlovable, unlikeable, meant to be alone forever, being too much and too needy? thank you so much 🫶🏻

"I'd crawl on my hands and knees for you to just tolerate me" people like you till they know you

Stephen adly guirgis

Suzanne Rivecca

Caitlin Conlon

Daniele Valeriani

Yves Olade

Lorde

CJ hauser

Sza

Welcome to the dollhouse

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"the girls I kiss at bars treat me like meat but they call me good boy after" being objectified, dreaming of something more but not really knowing how you'd take it

The vaccines

Alice Phoebe Lou

Cigarettes after sex

Q

Big theif

julykings @julykings

X

Silas denver melvin @sweatermuppet

Natalie Diaz

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"I grew up very alone, this is not something that'll vanish but when I'm drinking tea with you it matters less" found family, friendship

Harry styles

Alden Nowlan

Nana Grizol

Noor Hindi

Trista Mateer

Eve Lion

Mary Oliver

Hanya Yanagihara

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"I wondered if he would still view that kiss as sin if he knew how it felt" religious guilt, queerness

Emily Dickinson

Rabbi Yehuda al-harizi

Julia Jacklin

Richard Sikken

Nancy Garden

Leila Chatti

X

Richard Sikken

X

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makin posts abt lesbians, getting new lesbian followers everything is going according to plan

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"loving you is a survival instinct" butches loving butches, lesbianism, he's my girlfriend

Joan Larkin

Big theif

Chloe Sherman

Rhiannon Mcgavin

The neighborhood

Susan Matasovska

Julio cortazar

Big theif

Rio Romero

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Hi!! For your web weaving requests; could you do something related to the quote “I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory” ?

peace in death, surrender

Mahmoud Daresh

Frances molina

Charlie Kaufman

Margaret Atwood

Anne sexton

Led zeppelin

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"I want to love you in the morning" the optimism of new love

Tom Rosenthal

X

X

Big theif

Bright eyes

X

X

X

(this was a draft I never posted and a bunch of credits went missing, will try to fill them in as I go)

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"happy new year" I'm pretending this year might hurt less despite the proof of thag being unlikely

@seravph

Paul Guest

@beawriteswords

Keaton St james