lesbian masculinity forever!

dykeism! | they | sb

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That's My Jam parties organized by DJ Tikka Masala, Brooklyn, 2009

[crimson-femme]

It's All Butch Calendar (2016) by Debbie Boud

[butchorder]

Butch & Butch Bait, Manchester, 2026

[butchdeanjohn]

ivan coyote with a fan, 2010 [x]

She asked for B’s contact info by the end and they were so buddy-ish, it was cute. (I can hear B right now, telling me that being butch buddies isn’t cute!) And then, because I’m obsessed with pictures and such, I asked them to pose together for me. And so they did.

Hot, right?

[crimson-femme]

Stormé DeLarverie (1969)

[darksenpaii]

[femmeinvelvet2]

PJ surprised Switch with an afternoon at a fireside haven. Their passionate, romantic, and spicy play kept their fire going long after the hearth had cooled.

PJ and Switch in On Our Backs shot by Phyllis Christopher

[femmeinvelvet2]

King Kellz for Ikons Magazine, 2010

[femme-4-butches]

The Beauty of Female Masculinity, late 2000s/early 2010s.

[achillesinhighheels]

the aggressives (2005) — dir. daniel peddle

[femme-4-butches]

A fashionable femme and a stud in front of a car in 1950s Buffalo, New York.

In "Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community" by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis.

[cupidjoy]

Harry, Elitrea, and Silas, 1996 by Chloe Sherman

[redsans-world]

[zilodak]

Rodrick

[crimson-femme]

“It wasn't only the femme in front of the camera. The woman who is the subject of many of these snapshots is butch. By taking this photo, the femme behind the camera show her desire for a woman the culture says is unloveable. And these posing butches expand our idea of what woman is worthy of our gaze.”

Lives Visible (2017) dir. Michelle Citron

[queermasculine]

lesbian style by kami (tumblr, insta)

[femme-4-butches]

Vic Lentaigne's portfolio capturing queerness and identity. Candid and honest, the London-based photographer’s images seek out soft and familiar moments between her subjects.