[aguas-ucia]

lesbian thoughts

[carolathhabsburg]

Tintype of a lady in gent clothes. C late 1860s.

[thehappysorceress]

Elspeth Beard, shortly after becoming the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle. Her journey took 3 years and covered 48,000 miles.

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

Uh, just as a warning to anyone out there attracted to women: the other photos of her that exist are at least equally as hot, which is fucking terrifying.

[waiteverybodyhide]

This woman could ride up to me, take of the helmet and dramatically shake out her hair, and ask me to leave my life behind to run away adventuring with her

[deliriumcrow]

She is also an architect who lives in a Victorian water tower, and a more recent photo (still with a bike!) shows that at about 60 years old she is *still* just as beautiful.

[ooksaidthelibrarian]

Here’s an interview with her and some more photos of her, with bikes and in her water tower

[lesbianherstorian]

drawn by s. kelly and published in echo of sappho vol. 1 no. 2, august 1972

[partyinthemysterymachine]

Stormé DeLarverie was a black butch lesbian who threw the first punch at Stonewall.

she was known as the “guardian of the lesbians in the Village” and “the gay community’s Rosa Parks.“ 

she sparked the crowd, yelling: “Why don’t you guys do something?“ 

don’t forget her.

[anonbea]

hair n muscle growing back!

[gatheringbones]

jill posner, photographing butch, from dagger: on butch women, edited by Lily Burana, Roxxie, and Linnea Due, Cleis Press, 1994

[Jill Posner is a British photojournalist whose work has been published internationally in publications ranging from On Our Backs to The New York Times and The Village Voice, and in anthologies like Stolen Glances, a lesbian photo collection. She has published two collections of photographs of political graffiti, Spray It Loud and Louder Than Words, (Pandora Press).

The photographic process is for me a type of seduction. Not a sexual seduction, but a process of asking and coaxing someone to reveal herself, reel by reel. I find it hard to ask a butch to reveal herself because it makes me feel vulnerable. Perhaps I’m uncomfortable with even the hint of a sexual dynamic being present with another butch— and there can be a sexual aura during a photo shoot. It’s less threatening for me to ask a femme to be more daring, more explicit, and though I am attracted to femme women, there is less of a sexual charge during a photo shoot. I wish I had more rapport with butches because I love to photograph them and I’m always excited by the results.

People have said that I’ve been experimenting with genderfuck for years in my work. I’ve always resisted that. I am ambivalent about the issue of gender dysphoria, the idea of gender fluidity. I’d like to photograph the process of someone’s transition from female—]

[prarthanaprasad]

A list of surprising things

1. I rarely ever see pictures of Indian women in suits. So here's one.

2. This was my dad's suit. If I liked wearing my mom's sarees as much as I like wearing my dad's suits... Well let's just say I'd have a lot of sarees to wear.

3. Ladies, we look hella good in suits (not surprising) We should wear them more often.

[thequeenofbithynia]

New lino print! Based on an old poster that I saw online but the source of which I couldn’t track down. They’re up in my shop if anyone’s interested! (shop link in tumblr header)

[butchgender-remade-deactivated2]

All we've got (dir. Alexis Clements, USA, 2019)

[caroldanversenthusiast]

Sir, she is my emotional support lesbian gardener

[lesbianseparatist]

‘Gerri Steele,’ by Sherry Edwards. 1985.

[falling-house]

you can read the whole run (or most of it?) of Common Lives/Lesbian Lives for free on jstor: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28035065?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

[el-im]

Dr. Dee Mosbacher and Dr. Nanette Gartrell on vacation in Colorado, 1984. They moved in together before they even met, first living as roommates, then becoming lovers. They married in 2005. (Joan E. Biren)

[bloodsky]

“Going to class to teach, I feel a little nervous about how my student might perceive me or what they think of me. But then I will remind myself, what if there’s some young lesbian student, or some student who is butch, or who might end up sort of coming out as butch later on or something.” Gender Troubles: The Butches (watch it for free until March 29th)

[lookataleaf3000]

I’ve lived in Chicago for almost ten years, have been active within queer communities, and have been identifying as a lesbian, but I had very little exposure to the history and the impact Black lesbians have had on Chicago’s south-side communities and beyond.

Then I met Krü Maekdo, who founded the Black Lesbian Archive in the summer of 2017 to preserve and communicate the history of Black lesbians via news articles, publications, photo albums, literature, and oral histories.

There are folks who have concerns that the term “lesbian” is disappearing, in this case more specifically Black lesbians. Amidst the beautiful progression and visibility of queer identities within the LGBTQIA+ community, there is something inherently powerful about naming. For the Black women I photographed, there is a resonant power and pride that comes with identifying themselves as exclusively “lesbian.”

These intergenerational portraits center the experiences, activism, and diverse ways in which Black lesbians in Chicago continue to thrive and actualize themselves on their own terms.

[READ MORE]

[pinkfemme-deactivated20210608]

“DISABLED LESBIANS & THEIR FRIENDS,” San Francisco, June 28, 1987. Photo by Nancy Palmieri, c/o Special Collections & University Archives, UMass Amherst.

[lesbianseparatist]