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[bananapeppers]

Trans Dykes with The Degenderettes march in Women’s March Bay Area, San Francisco

[daughtersofsappho]

The Celluloid Closet [1995]

[lgbt-history-archive]

“AS PROUD OF OUR GAYNESS AS WE ARE OF OUR BLACKNESS: 3rd WORLD LESBIAN/GAY CONFERENCE, October 12-15th, WASHINGTON, D.C.” pinback, c. 1985. c/o @lgbt_history. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #Night

[enoughtohold]

lgbt solidarity rally at the stonewall inn, 2/4/17

[beautiful-brides-weddings]

Rather than waiting for the Chinese government to recognize their right to marry, Teresa Xu and Li Tingting held an informal ceremony in Beijing in June 2015.

[queer-all-year]

vintage photo of lesbian wedding (x)

[toodrunktofindaurl]

There, have some nb peeps & trans & queer ladies of color with their loved ones. ♥

[lesbianartandartists]

As a Jewish Lesbian I am ready to take on a strengthening Lesbian symbol, yet one that has been my legacy of Nazi dehumanization: the power in taking very short or shaved hair. (For years when I saw Lesbians with buzzed haircuts I was uncontrollably filled with fear. I have not forgotten yet I am ready to rid myself of this association that has followed me for many years.)5. I was talking to a non-Jewish friend the other night about myself as a Jew. As I spoke my fingers repeatedly ran through my hair, pulling it out to its fullest lengths, twisting its curls. I remembered the judgments and disdain its wildness and frizziness brought on me for so many years as a girl as I ironed and straightened and snipped away at its swirls. As I got older the textures of my hair changed and today when the weather is right my hair becomes again these swirls and waves. I am beginning in a new way to reclaim with awareness my Jewish identity and it is easy to understand why my hair symbolizes this identity to me and is now affirming. This identity is a place where I have gone and where I need to stay. I am afraid that by cutting my hair I’ll make less visible this part of myself: I will be more visible Lesbian and less visible Jew.

Susan, “I Know I Take a Chance in Forming Words into Meaning: A Leap Over Wild Waters. Or, Talking Myself into Getting a Haircut,” 1982. (via lesbianartandartists)

[lgbt-history-archive]

“BLACK LESBIANS,” Gay Pride Parade, London, United Kingdom, June 1985. Photo © GETTY. #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #lgbttheirstory #lgbtpride #QueerHistoryMatters #HavePrideInHistory #BlackLesbians (at London, United Kingdom)

[libhobn]

some nice jewish weddings

[definitelywicked-deactivated201]

YES!

[chal-converts-archive]

I was literally just thinking about this post lol

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

THIS IS SO UTTERLY BEAUTIFUL <3

[troubledminnesotan]

feeling sad so i made a fluffy comic

[fun-home]

This is Alison Bechdel’s coming out story as featured on the Oberlin College website. 

[bananapeppers]

What is it with lesbians and home? Gone home fun home whats next? My home is now a lesbian im afraid if i stay near a home too long i too will become a lesbian but i think its too late

anonymous message to @closet-keys

1. Gwen Shockey, Lavender Scissors and Red Houses (2016). — Lesbian Art and Artists

2. Catherine Opie, Self-Portrait/Cutting (1993). — Guggenheim

3. text reads “term: family of origin / term: chosen family”.

4. Catherine Opie, Eleanor & Megan, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1998) from her series Domestic (1995–1998). — Regen Projects

5. Catherine Opie, Sunday Morning Breakfast (2004) from her series In and Around Home. (2004–2005) — Guggenheim

6. text from Barbara Smith, 1989, “A Press of Our Own Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press”, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 10 (3):11–13, doi: 10.2307/3346433. inset: photo by JEB (Joan E. Biren) of (L–R) Barbara Smith, Audre Lorde, Cherríe Moraga, and hattie gossett, four of the cofounders of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, representing their imprint at the second Women in Print Conference, Washington, DC (October 1–4, 1981). — Pinterest

7. from part five of Judy Grahn’s poem A Woman is Talking to Death (1974). you can view/download the scanned book here and access the poem in text format at Poets.org.

8. Tammy Rae Carland, Untitled (Lesbian Bed #4) from her series Lesbian Beds (2002). — artist’s site

9. Marsha Wetzel photographed by Lyndon French on behalf of the New York Times for Mark Miller’s November 18, 2016 article “No Rest at Rest Home: Fighting Bias Against Gays and Lesbians”.

10. (Noel) Phyllis Birkby, lesbian, architect, founder of the Women’s School of Planning and Architecture (1974–1981), in undated photo. — Sophia Smith Collection, Women’s History Archives at Smith College

overflowing:

Erin Blakemore. 2016. “The Turn-of-the-Century Lesbians Who Founded The Field of Home Ec”. JSTOR Daily, December 30.

Tammy Rae Carland’s series Keeping House (1999).

photos from Dusty Lombardo’s series Butch Interiors (2004).

etc.

what are your favorite statements/works by lesbians about “home”/domesticity? what does “home”/domesticity conjure up for you?

[summoningspark]

if u ever worry about your future as a wlw please know that my mother who just turned 40 and her girlfriend who started transitioning at 39 (who are both divorced and had children w/other ppl) are currently singing duets in our kitchen while my stepmum plays acoustic guiter and they’re beautiful and happy and there is always hope for you

[season1joey-blog]

lgbt pride, 1970 

[trustalljoys-deactivated2020072]

dear young lesbians,

if you don’t kiss a girl until you’re 17, 19, 23, that’s okay. even if your friends have been kissing boys since they were 12, it’s okay. even if you feel lonely or like there’s something wrong with you because of it, you’re okay and you’re perfectly normal. 

if you’ve kissed boys but not a girl and you don’t want those kisses to count as your first kiss, that’s fine and whichever kiss you want to be your first can be. if you feel like you’ll never ever kiss a girl, i promise you will. i know it, it’s written in the stars. 

we don’t get it easy, and sometimes it takes a lot longer for us. but i promise to you that it’ll happen sooner than you think. i promise you will kiss a girl, and that when it happens, it’ll be worth the wait.

i love you.

[homojabi]

Not all lesbians are thin white girls who wear Calvin Klein underwear and go camping every weekend. Lesbians are brown girls in salwar kameezes and bindis and black girls with dreadlocks and afros and Muslim girls in hijabs and Jewish girls in tznius, lesbians are fat girls and 5X+ girls and girls with big bones and girls who are 6 feet tall, lesbians are poor girls on welfare and girls getting food stamps and homeless girls and girls working multiple minimum wage jobs, lesbians are girls with depression and anxiety and girls with personality disorders and psychosis and girls in the hospital and girls who are suicidal, lesbians are girls with disabilities and girls in wheelchairs and girls with chronic pain and girls who are blind and deaf and girls who are in recovery and girls who can’t recover, lesbians are girls who are 5 years old and girls who are 85 years old and girls who have known their whole life and girls who just found out, lesbians are girls from literally all walks of life and all cultures and all religions and our stories are so unique and so vast and to reduce us to only a small group of girls who most of us aren’t is disingenuous of who we all are as a whole.