#nothing but the girl

[that-butch-archivist]

"Untitled" by Katie Niles, 1990

source: Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image, edited by Susie Bright and Jill Posener

[youturningintodust]

Nothing But The Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image, 1996, Susie Bright and Jill Posener, page 91. (x)

[burningpysche]

[muffinlance]

My baby daughter got her adorable puffin-print dress absolutely CAKED in mud crawling around the yard and my first thought was "oh no her beautiful dress"

And my second thought was "oh huh it really WOULD be easy to unconsciously steer her away from playing in the dirt. Unlike my son, whose outfits are usually some kind of solid dark easily washed pants plus a shirt that doesn't trail in the dirt like a dress does."

Anyway something something gender roles start getting shoved on kids from literal birth, but with a little time to think about things, YOU TOO can let your children of any gender absolutely destroy their clothes in the dirt pit they're digging in your garden

[cerealbastard]

"When [Disgrace] published the 'Ruff Sex' portraits in On Our Backs in 1989, I ran one photo as the centerfold - a girl gang bang that showed it's femme bottom in the outer reaches of sensation. It was an amazing construction of a classic girl fucked into insensibility by strangers who carry that 'don't know or care' air about them. The magazine was immediately returned by most of our retailers, and never made it though the mail to others. 'Ruff Sex' was seen as the unthinkable

- a lesbian oxymoron. How could women be so rough with each other? How could there be a

"victim' and her tormentors? How could they

'use' her that way? And to top it off, how could these women be such remorseless exhibitionists as to perform the whole scene for the camera?

None of these questions would be relevant if it weren't for the assumptions that we have about female sexuality: deferential, gentle, nurturing, modest. We are surprised to see women put their bodies to the test sexually, to go to the extreme - although this is exactly what a woman's body is made for: extremes, endurance.

One thing about women who are into masochism is the stamina factor - the endurance, and the yearning for release through endurance. Perhaps the greatest feat of 'Ruff Sex' is the players look out of control - as candid and spontaneous as spit-"

Susie Bright, Nothing But The Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image (1996), photo from Love Bites

(1991) shot by Del LaGrace Volcano

[afewnovelideas]

[cowardlycowboys]

girl who constantly feels like they're in trouble and did something wrong

[oldrudshore]

The Archivist vs the Old Ass Man

(s02e20 / s02e08)

[pig-mania]

me

[that-butch-archivist]

"Bear and Aphra 2" by Jessica Tanzer, 1989.

source: Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image, edited by Susie Bright & Jill Posener

[eyes-of-nine]

magical girl naomi osaka

based on this outfit of hers

[butchaholic]

[malinaa]

if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

[ionomycin]

Mother of Pearl

[jaytalking]

At this point his hair being on fire is just a sign that his ultimate is ready. Anyways here's some scenes from the AU in my brain.

[agendercryptidlev]

Update: The claim that Hergie Bacyadan spoke out against Imane Khelif seems to be misinformation. I apologize for spreading it, no one is immune to propaganda etc. This does not change the fact that the trans community has an intersexism/interphobia problem that is being made incredibly obvious by this olympics discourse.

Seeing the recent bigoted comments by transgender Olympian Hergie Bacyadan, it's past time for the perisex trans community to address the normalized intersexism/interphobia that so many of us spread.

The intersex community is constantly used as a prop by the trans community. The most frequent way you see trans people speak about intersex issues is just to remind transphobes that sex isn't binary, which is meaningless when the trans community still strictly enforces intersexist binaries like AMAB vs AFAB and TME vs TMA and Transfemme vs Transmasc, all categories that many if not most intersex people, trans or cis, cannot fit neatly into. The trans community uses the intersex community to win arguments and than makes next to no effort to make our intersex siblings feel welcome.

When talking about HRT and gender affirming care for minors, the trans community almost never uplifts the voices of the intersex community who are often forced to undergo HRT as children and surgery on their genitalia as actual babies against their will. It is important for HRT and gender affirming care to be available to transgender children, it is just as important to keep these same things that can be life saving for trans children from being forced onto intersex children who do not consent.

I implore all perisex trans people to do some reading into the history of intersex activism, and the sad reality of life for intersex people today when so many governments and health systems are still bigoted against intersex people. Uplift intersex voices, always.