WE RECRUIT

a lesbian positivity blog for all lesbians trans and nb inclusive byf / about

[christianrichardrice]

Vincent Van Gogh, Patch of Grass, 1887.

[queermasculine]

Two dykes share a kiss at the first ever Dyke March. Photographer Carolina Kroon, Manhattan, 1993. Full image | Source

[farmerlesbian]

do something this week to be more gender non conforming or more trans. big or small. get started in the process for getting hormones. stop wearing a bra / free your nipples. make an appointment to get that gender affirming surgery you’ve been thinking about. message that tattoo shop for that tattoo you’ve been wanting. go to the thrift store and buy a clothing or accessory item from the gendered side you don’t usually wear. wear more bold makeup or stop wearing makeup. grow your hair long or cut it short. try some new pronouns or stop using the ones you’ve been letting people use for you just to try to be easier for them. i dunno, do the thing that you kinda want to do but you’re not sure about but you keep thinking about. do it. you’re waiting for something but now it’s time. you can do it. it’ll feel good. even if it’s just to find out it doesn’t quite work for you, now you’ve tried it, and you’ve learned, and you’ve experienced a new thing, another step in the exploration of your life. it’ll feel good to try something new. try it!

[expressions-of-nature]

by Donna McL

[ffuscous]

“Playbutch” November, March, June

Intaglio with Chine Cólle

[diogenesprintco]

Oak galls & acorns on light green lokta paper, pair of prints made for a still-in-progress quilting project with my partner.

[soul-hammered]

Hooray! Yay! Dykes!

[headspace-hotel]

I'm not seeing any naked adults in that screenshot...

...There's something deeply messed up about how breasts, which are used by our species to feed babies, are considered to be so perverse and obscene that a child should never see them.

[alexseanchai]

There aren't any naked people in the entire video clip. There's some people that you'd probably see less of their skin on a beach, but only because on a beach they'd probably be wearing a bikini top as well as whatever else they have on. And this is New York City, where toplessness is legal regardless of gender or assigned sex.

[vergess]

Toplessness for breasts is legal in most places in the US, unlegislated in almost all that remain, and only illegal in two states: Ohio and Tennessee.

This is because topless equality has been a basic push from feminists for literally decades, until Radfems and NeoCons bonded over wanting a trans genocide less than a decade ago.

Female Toplessness in the United States - Wikipedia

It's literally why the "no tits on tumblr" and other lesser SESTA/FOSTA consequences* like it were so jarring. It set back FORTY. YEARS. OF PROGRESS in the rights of people with breasts or perceived as women to wear the same clothes as people without.

Do not let conservatives lie to you about this. The majority of people in the us and the VAST majority of States recognize the right of people to not wear a damn shirt. It isn't obscenity, it isn't even nudity, it's just something pericis men are allowed that everyone else isn't.

Y'know.

Basic sexual discrimination.

*Y'all aren't still on that "it was the Apple app store that caused the tit ban" shit, right? It was the literal US federal government. To be fucking clear.

[tlirsgender]

(Throwing mushy bananas and apple cores into my compost bin) fruit salad... yummy yummy

[eldestfrotter]

[tgirl-thucydides]

sterling_analog

[farmerlesbian]

Untitled Diptych, 2023 Suzanne M. Shifflett Website | Portfolio | Instagram | @smshifflett

[farmerlesbian]

"I wanted to do a painting about special queer moments that we can’t forget." - Suzanne M. Shifflett

Here's a photo Suzanne just posted on Instagram of the piece in its frame, with a comment she made about the piece as well.

[lobstabear]

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

[knittingontheroad]

I became a tattoo artist at 49.

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.

As long as you're breathing, you've got time.

[archivearchangelica]

Bobbie the Dyke Doll, 2005

[lamignonette]

[probuccalfat]

every time a young gay person quits smoking or makes the decision that they want to quit, the sun shines on us all with the promise of happiness and beauty.

[probuccalfat]

i appreciate everybody that’s sharing the sentiment that it’s good for anyone to quit smoking (it is) but i very specifically wanted to highlight and encourage LGBTQ youth because lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are about 1.5 to 2.5 times more likely to smoke cigarettes than heterosexual people, and the statistics for transgender people are even higher than cisgender people. this is due to tobacco companies marketing heavily and aggressively to LGBTQ communities and exploiting the higher rates of mental health struggles prevalent in our communities.

i want and hope to see all my LGTBQ people live long, healthy, fulfilled lives despite how predatory and punishing this world can be. you should stay around as long as you can to make it a little better in your own way.

[pacogabby]

American bison with sunflowers at Antelope Island State Park.

[goldxnfemme-deactivated20241112]

was putting this together for a mutual and decided it would be good to share;

Books and articles about lesbianism by black and poc authors, here's a start:

Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing edited by Catherine McKinley and L. Joyce Delaney

Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought edited by Briona Simone Jones

Black lesbian in white America by Anita Cornwell

In Our Words: Queer Stories from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Writers edited by Anne Shade and Victoria Villaseñor

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Zami: a new spelling of my name by Audre Lorde

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H (Novel)

Black Lesbian gender and sexual culture: celebration and resistance by Bianca D. M. Wilson - (this one's an article)

The myth and tradition of the black Bulldagger by SDiane A. Bogus - ( it's an essay from the book Dagger: On Butch Women)

Femmes of Color, "Femmes de Couleur": Theorizing Black Queer Femininity through Chauvet's "La danse sur le volcan" by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley - (article)

Black lesbians in the '70s and Before from the Lesbian Herstory Archives by Shawn(ta) Smith - (it's a zine)