My favorite part about being sapphic is when the things I love about other women become things I love about myself. One day I was tracing another woman’s stretch marks in a dim bedroom light. And then, seemingly by accident, I was doing it to myself in my bathroom mirror. I loved the feeling of a full hand of flesh when I grabbed a woman’s hips, and then mine didn’t need to be so skinny anymore. I looked at a woman’s lower stomach pudge and thought it was so soft and cute, then never wanted a flat stomach again. Loving women can be so healing when you come from a world that doesn’t.
hugs for femmes. femmes who feel unrecognized within and outside the community. femmes with non-eurocentric features. femmes who are judged as being too masculine to be femme. femmes with loud laughs and attitudes. femmes who have been shamed for being pillow princesses. femmes who have their sexuality undermined. femmes who feel pressured by heteronormative standards. femmes with gender dysphoria. femmes who have trouble finding community. femmes who are shamed for not being “gay” enough. femmes with body hair. femmes who top their butches. femmes with muscular and plus sized bodies. femmes who are on their coming out journey. femmes who bring light into the world. hugs for femmes.
(questioning) AVPD culture is starting and ending every single sentence with ‘I think’ because god forbid you sound decisive or assertive about Anything Ever
apologies to anyone who ever thought i was cool and reached out to me only to discover i am just a weird little hermit who can't carry on a conversation to save my life
Kate Baer, from What Kind of Woman: Poems; “To take back a life”
[Text ID: “the hunger to be held, to be wanted, to / be called from the streets like the family / dog. You are not a good girl. You are not / somebody’s otherness.”]
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