#dyke culture

[365daysoflesbians]

Jodie Foster for Document Journal, October 2023

[wanderestlest]

i was explaining to my partner how there's an entire informal rolodex among wlw regarding men who can handle being around dykes that we recommend to each other when we need things done

it's a dykecelium network

[leatherlesbianstuff]

Nothing but the Girl: the Blatant Lesbian Image (1996)

Think this is from On Our Backs? Sourced from@dykedeviance on Instagram. Awesome account.

[queermasculine]

Maybe a stupid question but one I've asked myself, what's the difference in between a butch and a masc for you ? Is there one ?

not a stupid question! "butch" is an older word with more meanings across time. to straight people it's been a military style haircut, a male name (still a few old guys named butch in the US), and a fairly uncomplicated synonym for masculine. to lesbians, bisexuals and gay men, it's been all of the above, but it's also had a whole host of other connotations specific to us and our own ways of loving/performing masculinity. a lot of the different meanings of butch have faded or fallen out of fashion over the years, but the word has more or less kept its purpose among lesbians, giving it the lesbian tint it has today.

"masc" is a much newer term, and unlike butch, i don't believe it's ever been widely used by the straight mainstream. (not a lot of grandpas named masc out there.) it's my impression that masc first spread out from gay guys on grindr, or at least that played a big part in popularizing it, and it's been used pretty much exclusively in an lgbt context ever since. in that sense it's the word with the more explicitly queer origin, despite having a much shorter history. having risen to popularity in the age of social media, masc carries none of the historical baggage of butch, and as such it's a more open-ended term, implying very little about a person beyond their masculinity. you can see this difference exemplified in google search results: while looking up butch will primarily yield information about the word's significance to lesbians, masc will net you more neutral descriptions, like "a person whose gender identity is masculine, but who is not necessarily a man."

despite all that, masc and butch usually serve the same function (to express the masculinity of the subject) and are used pretty much interchangeably in many contexts. also worth noting is that the lesbian association of butch is not a rule, just an observation i've made about modern perceptions. bisexual women have always used butch (and femme) alongside lesbians, and to this day you'll still encounter gay men – usually older – who identify as butch. so in conclusion, if you're trying to pick what label to use for yourself, i wouldn't worry about it too much. both terms have room enough for you in them.

[tiredyke]

every time queer discourse surges on this site everyone is so quick to jump to “it was actually the evil lesbians who divided us” because y’all heard the term “political lesbian” and never bothered to figure out what that meant

[bratprincedyke]

God is a dyke T-shirts I made ⛓🖤

If you want to buy one they’re available here

[millipedegf]

⚢ <3

[bratty-honeyy]

I want to sit on your face gf 🤝 i want to rail you so hard gf

[violottie]

since my old blog got nuked, i gotta make this post again because yall refuse to be anything but ignorant

lesbian sexuality ≠ heterosexual men's sexuality

lesbian attraction to women ≠ men's attraction to women

trans men cannot be lesbians, because they are men. if you think so, youre a transphobe as well as a lesbophobe.

lesbian attraction is not perverse, predatory, dehumanising to or sexualising of women's bodies

men have never and will never be included in lesbian sexuality and attraction under any circumstance

(and if your mind immediately goes to trans women and transfems when reading the above, congrats, youre a transphobe)

butch, femme, stud and stone are lesbian only identities

similarly, dyke is a slur that literally means lesbian. if youre not a lesbian, you're not a, nor can you 'reclaim', dyke.

butches and studs ≠ men or man-lite

butch ≠ masculine

femme ≠ feminine

transmasc ≠ trans man, therefore transmasc lesbians are a thing and trans men cannot ever be lesbians

trans women and transfems have been & will always be included in lesbian attraction, sexuality and community

trans lesbians & transfems can be butch

he/him lesbians ≠ (trans)masc, butch, stud lesbians

black lesbians ≠ automatically masc, butch, stud or tops

"bi lesbians" or "mspec lesbians" do not exist.

the split attraction model is for aromanticism and asexuality only. if you identify as such, youre just a bisexual who doesnt wanna unpack your internalised biphobia so resort to lesbophobia to cope with your self loathing caused by harmful stereotypes about your sexuality, which is bisexual. if you claim they do exist, you're both lesbophobic and biphobic

thank you for coming to my TedTalk. im sure you didnt listen to a word i said.

[365daysoflesbians]

"I love being in the moment with words. Words were my first love. I don’t think I was meant to be an actor."

Jodie Foster for Document Journal, October 2023

[yugiohz]

seeing so many people genuinely believe that everyone in the Middle East is homophobic is so jarring, in my experience every Muslim/middle eastern family has that one very obviously gay cousin and everyone just rolls with it 😂

[butch-culture-is]

transmasc butch culture is glamrock freddy

[lesbiciousbeginnings]

I remembered that I own these and uh 🛷

[the-uncanny-dag]

IDK where the sudden new wave of love for Gerard Donelan & Alison Bechdel's comics came out from, but I'm loving it, so please never stop 💙✨

[carp3-di3mm]

I’ve self-published this zine as a resource about butch/femme culture, by and for femme4butch/butch4femmes! This is open to anyone who would like to view it, but if you want a physical copy, I will be selling them, so please dm me if you’re interested<3

[psychotrenny]

Critical support to Homestuck for pissing off obnoxious US Chauvinist Queers