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RIP Hildred Castaigne you would’ve loved AITA Reddit

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2025 Political Rising Stars To Keep An Eye On

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I should be allowed into every museum's archives actually

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[ butchfemme carmilla ] “Let us look again for a moment; it is the last time, perhaps, I shall see the moonlight with you.”

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Of the early 20th century modernist female Yiddish poets there are a few contenders but I do think celia dropkin would be the most likely to kill it on tumblr

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clown gets home after a long day. tired, sweaty. peels off their colorful overalls on the way to the bathroom. gets in the shower and turns the knob. burst of confetti & ribbons from the showerhead. clown sighs. dries off with a long chain of hankies

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literally any upper middle class tiktok self-identified ‘that girl’ in a pastel workout set with a thirteen step skincare routine and a green juice is a million times closer to being patrick bateman irl than any self-identified sigma film bro

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“Thought that was a beautiful butch lesbian but it’s just a man” did you know these things aren’t mutually exclusive

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i hate to be that guy, but the idea that gender, sex, and sexuality are ontologically pure concepts that can be rigidly defined if we simply police our language enough (our english language, because of course) is—i cannot stress this enough—a total waste of time. you may as well spend your afternoons teaching a brick how to swim

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Lesbians at Le Monocle, Paris, 1932

Yves Saint Laurent's Le Smoking photographed by Helmut Newton, Paris, 1966

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the reason I dislike the words “sapphic” and “Achillean” (beyond the “girls write poetry boys fight war” of it) is that I took a class once on the fin de siecle in Europe that had an entire long section about how European men would go to the colonies and sexually exploit colonized men and boys while using the metaphor of Classical Greece to forgive themselves their own homosexuality on the basis that the power differential between colonizer and colonized maps onto the power differential inherent to classical pederasty. Which is, you know. Overtly racist. And I think we’ve got better options