#lesbian is not a dirty word

[niiwa-angel]

The LGB community: it's okay to be same sex attracted. toys do not make your child gay. Gay men are not pedophiles. Lesbians are not violently attacking women in change rooms. Love your gay/bi children.

The TQ+ community: exclusive same sex attraction is transphobic. Not letting your child inject bone melting cross sex hormones into themselves is the same as suicide baiting. Some trans women steal their female family members clothes and masturbate in them, if you have a problem with this you deserve to be doxxed. Trans women just want to pee but we also need to carry bats and canes Incase a Cissy looks at us wrong. Some of our artists are stealing innocent pictures of your children from your social media accounts and using them as motivation for their furry fetishes. Some of us have rape kinks, pedo kinks, and public humiliation kinks that we WILL be indulging in in front of your children. Trying to stop us will get you fired. We send death threats to lesbians and gay men who won't date us.

The LGB community: we would like to be allowed to marry, share benefits with our partners, adopt children, have housing and employment protections, and be allowed to serve in the military. Gay men are not diseased. We would like to be able to educate same sex attracted young people about how to have sex safely. Lesbians are not a fetish and they don't date women just for men's attention. Bisexuals are not promiscuous and we are not interested in threesomes.

The TQ+ community: we would like to destroy the medical definitions for women. Calling it breast feeding is a hate crime, use chest feeding instead. Gay men who won't force themselves into eating my pussy are a disease and deserve to die. Lesbians who won't suck my dick are bigots who deserve to be raped. We would like to teach children to how give proper blow jobs. We would like to talk to your children about violent sex without you being able to stop us. Trans women with pregnancy fetishes deserve to be in miscarriage or infertility support groups. Keeping rape shelters single sex is the same as segregation.

The LGB community: we would like to be separate from the TQ+ community please. Our values and goals are incredibly different and they are directly hurting us.

The TQ+ community: how dare these dykes and faggots say they want to be separate from us? AIDS should have killed them all off

[allwomenjointhe4bmovement]

Not "sapphic", not "queer", not "gay", LESBIAN! Say the word!

Credit: @hi.poppylaur

[gorgeouslovergoldrush]

SCREAMING CRYING DYING. THIS IS A TRAGEDY.

ok but on a serious note, i’m pissed. the society gets cancelled. i’m not okay with this gets cancelled. everything sucks gets cancelled. gentleman jack gets cancelled. the wilds gets cancelled. what do all these shows have in common? amazing representation.

Lexa dies right after her and Clarke have an intimate moment. Villanelle dies after having her proper first kiss with Eve. don’t even get me started on Haunting of Hill House. there’s virtually no good lesbian representation in the media without it being sexualised, cancelled or tragic. Jojo Siwa. Girl in Red. one of the most popular porn searches is lesbians.

lesbian issues are constantly put down. we’re told we’re overreacting and are told that we should stop asking for more. we’re told we aren’t discriminated against. SEXUALISATION IS NOT ACCEPTANCE. it never will be. i’ve had to sit and listen as boys behind me say that lesbians are hot without saying a word because of the fear of getting hurt.

if you’re not a lesbian, i don’t care about your opinions on OUR issues. i’m sick of being put down and spoken over. this is not enough. we deserve more

[arotrixic-disaster]

"Homosexual"

"Queer"

"Dyke"

"Lesbian"

I have reclaimed the words you've used against me, and the one you tried to take from me. I live in shame no longer, I am at peace with who I am. This is me, and I will proudly claim so.

[bonefall]

Anyway. Bi and Mspec Lesbians aren't a hotly "debated" topic or even new to queer culture, it's just the newest thing that bullies who REALLY want to be homophobic and even racist use to justify harassing gay people they don't like.

It's the thinnest possible veneer of progressive language wrapped around TERF and reactionary rhetoric so that they can feel righteous for forming an angry mob against vulnerable targets. If you're gullible enough to fall for the newest wave of bigotry within the queer community, and turn on your allies because they're "confusing" or "invading your spaces," the SAME way they turned on bi/pan labels, trans people, xenogenders, neopronouns, and aroace people before this, then get lost.

[sandinmybed]

not to be a mean lesbian™️ but stop calling robin sapphic when you mean she's a lesbian. there's so little lesbian rep, she is one. lesbian is not a dirty word

[lesbian-archives]

“My favourite memory is when I slept over Nat’s house for the first time. She vacated all her roommates so we could have the space to ourselves. The following morning, we were sitting on the curb and I was about to leave. And Nat looked at me on the left side and then on the right and said “You know.. I just want to let you know this isn’t romantic. And I sat there for a second and responded “...Alright, no problem. I getcha.” I was neither disappointed nor ecstatic but here we are now... two years later wondering what the hell that was about!“

Butch is Not a Dirty Word (Issue 7, the Butch4Butch edition)⁣, 2020

[keikofuji]

REPEAT AFTER ME:

LESBIAN is a pretty word LESBIAN is a wonderful word LESBIAN is a beautiful and divine word

[iwanthermidnightz]

Streets are saying Renee has been soft launching as a lesbian?

seems like a hard launch? she was going off in interviews recently and then comes on snl and does a skit where she has to do court ordered media training and they call her “little lesbian intern reneé” (which she could have changed), and during her performance the set is lesbian colors 😭 love that for her, she’s so cute.

[star-princess-princess]

As a femme, it’s our job to be there with butches and make community with them. We should be uplifting them and listening to them as they do with us. It’s not femme at all to be butchphobic and put down butches or butchness. That is no requirement to date or even be attracted to butches but we do have to be kind to each other, protect each other, and be there for each other. Our identities and communities are intertwined in the best way. We share a rich and important history. Our identities should matter to each other even if we’re not dating. As femmes we should care about the safety of butches and do our best to aid them, or at least the bare minimum of being kind, respectful, and listening to their issues. Butches deserve better and we can most certainly give them that.

[peaceandlove26]

Hello fellow lesbian!! Who is telling you that you aren't femme, i need to use my butch intimidation on them. -sincerely, butch who "is bad" at being a butch (i love fancy chapsticks and lipsmackers. I have such a huge lipsmackers collection i got like all the crayola and hello kitty ones.) (Also p.s. it's more of a role anyways and there are many ways to be butch or femme, if it feels right to call yourself one because of the role you play in relationships and the lesbian community, heck, even the lgbt community, then consider yourself a femme :D)

YOU’RE SO RIGHT!! nobody is telling me i’m not femme LOL don’t worry all my self-consciousness is self-imposed. i think a lot of it stems from like, not really knowing my place in the lesbian community because i’ve never interacted with it. i’ve never known another lesbian my age it’s SAD! i’ll figure it all out in time

edit: wait jk i HAVE known one but only very briefly

[madohomurat]

its important to analyze why you feel comfortable or uncomfortable sometimes. if you actually sit back and think about these things you can often uncover prejudices that you subconsciously hold on to.

for example, a someone might say they "get bad vibes from lesbians" and leave it at that. if they sat down and thought about why they feel that way, they would likely uncover that these "bad vibes" are actually their own lesbiphobic ideas projected onto other people.

you see the same kind of phenomenon when a white person says they "get bad vibes" from a group of POC. being vague about how and why you feel the way that you do because deep down youre afraid of realizing that you are the intolerant asshole instead of the innocent victim you act like you are.

[a-frog-in-a-bog]

“Lesbians can have sex with men and enjoy it” is not a hot take. That is a conversion therapy take

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

so many people are so scared of the word lesbian is so weird

[harocat]

Required reading. L with the T.

[blood-choke]

I hope u enjoyed Halloween! Just wanted to pop in and say thanks for sharing this story with us, a story that is truly made for lesbians. It’s really nice to see something where our sexuality isn’t left vague, up to interpretation, or brushed aside. We exist too and it’s just very heartwarming to see this in your writing.

“Heartwarming” sounds wild when I remember the Valentina hunting scene but I stand by what I said LOL

thank you!!!!! that was definitely my intention with this. i’ve said before but it’s honestly been pretty fun writing something so self-indulgent, hahaha.

and it is heartwarming in a gory still beating heart kind of way 🫀🩸