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I love it when a femme’s femininity flourishes because they are with a butch who loves them for who they are and never make them feel bad about liking all the traditional girly stuff. A femme who completely accepts their femininity, uses all sorts of pronouns, experiments with their gender because they know no matter what, their butch is still going to love them and always be attracted to them.

I love it when a butch’s masculinity flourishes because they are with a femme who loves them for who they are and never call them a man for liking the traditional manly stuff. A butch who completely accepts their masculinity, uses all sorts of pronouns, experiments with their gender because they know no matter what, their femme is still going to love them and always be attracted to them.

I love when femmes and butches don’t make each other feel bad when femmes like more of the masculine stuff and the butches like the feminine stuff, hence not forcing the heteronormative ideas on each other.

I love being a part of the butchfemme community

THIS POST IS ABOUT LESBIANS. MEN AND MINORS DNI

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““In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.”

—  Dante Alighieri, Inferno

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The only recognition I can find in their eyes is that I am "other". I am different. I will always be different. I will never be able to nestle my skin against the comfort of sameness.

—Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

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Stone Butch Blues

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Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Virginia Woolf (August 1919)

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—Christy Desmet, ‘The Canonization of Laura Palmer’, from Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks. 

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“My unbalanced words are the wealth of my silence. I write in acrobatics and pirouettes in the air — I write because I so deeply want to speak. Though writing only gives me the full measure of silence.”

— Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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butch who does as he's told × femme that enjoys pulling them around by their carabiner

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© Eska Marsh

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“Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women; kitchen of lust, / bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. / Sometimes, the men – they come with keys, / and sometimes, the men – they come with hammers.”

— Warsan Shire, from “The House,” Her Blue Body (via lifeinpoetry)

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fr. “Sorrow is Not My Name” by Ross Gay

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Sarah Kane, from The Complete Plays of Sarah Kane; "Cleansed," first performed in 1998