#laport

[quotefeeling]

You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

Danielle LaPorte, The Positivity of Pride

[breederbutch]

"The essence of butchness is interior, psychological, emotional— a form of psychosexuality as fundamental as heterosexual male, heterosexual female, or femme. Some butches are easily recognizable by outward manner and gesture by even the most naive heterosexual, but most have picked up from the prevailing culture outward behavior that makes 'passing' easy. Only the experienced eye of another lesbian can spot the little telltale gestures. A factor of consequence in this matter of behavior is the butch's own attitude toward herself. If early on she has fully accepted herself, she ceases to be concerned with every little gesture that might give her away. She presents a naturalness that offends no one despite her being thought of as a masculine woman. In contrast, the butch who fears herself, who is overly sensitive to the ridicule generally heaped upon the masculine woman, may suffer the torments of hell. Day in and day out she tries to disguise her inner masculinity; she may even manage to hide it from herself. To others she appears strange and unnatural. Though she has thoroughly accepted her lesbianism, she knows not what to do with this tender masculinity hidden within her. In some instances this leads to her taking the role of the femme. This is a curious inversion of her true self, one that points out the reciprocity or mirror-image aspect of butch-femme. For the qualities of butch and femme are not opaque to each other— the butch senses the nature of the femme by what it is she seeks in another, and vice versa. An analogy might be the right and left hands. These two hands, though the same in most ways, are also the exact reversals of each other."

- Rita Laporte, "The butch-femme question," from The Ladder (1971) [reprinted in The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (1992)]

[perfectfeelings]

You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

Danielle LaPorte, The Positivity of Pride

[europeansculpture]

Léo Laporte-Blairsy (1865-1923) - Bal néo-gothique

[perfectquote]

You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

Danielle LaPorte, The Positivity of Pride

[resqectable]

You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

Danielle LaPorte, The Positivity of Pride

[thoughtkick]

You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

Danielle LaPorte, The Positivity of Pride

[ikram1909]

Gavi with Laporte on the bus ❤️❤️

[lezkissgifs]

Aging Out (2023) dir. Breanne Williamson

[einsliga]

[pedripics]

😭😭😭

[lajoliedujeudi]

Sabrina Laporte.

[ingqokelela]

[ikram1909]

Gavi and Laporte (again 😭)

[celluloidrainbow]

YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER (2022) dir. Sarah Watts & Mark Slutsky When Jaime, a gay teenager, is sent to live in a community of Jehovah’s Witnesses in small-town Quebec, she falls madly in love with Marike, a devout Witness girl. The two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives. (link in title)

[larojauniverse]

"There's also Fermín. Fermín, the three of them were... an insufferable trio."

Aymeric about Nico, Lamine and Fermín

(Source: Un equipo llamado España: El camino hacia la cuarta)