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it's mandatory i fear. sorry i don't make the rules :/

Night out at a jukejoint in Greenville, South Carolina, 1956.

Photographed by Margaret Bourke-White for LIFE Magazine.

haven’t posted in a long time because of work, so heres a selfie ♥️

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Minnie Bruce Pratt and Leslie Fienberg in the late 90s photographed by Mariette Pathy Allen (source)

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It's almost laughable what the internet and very young queer people have done to the words butch and especially femme. I think I could go on for hours and hours on how important that little yet huge letter "e" is at the end of the word. People have turned this special term into something so superficial and tedious. To them "femme" simply means hyperfeminine. It's sweet, pink, docile, delicate, soft, submissive. Which of course, certain femmes actually do identity with those words but little do these people know or understand is that to be femme is to be just as hard and aggressive as what they see being butch is. It's in gesture, in stature, in autonomy, in courage, in love that is so deep and true for other butches and fellow femme sisters. Femme is something inherently erotic and so sensual. Our history literally shows that femmes used their physical privilege to protect and stand up for butches, femmes were the ones who would go out and work due to the fact that people would not hire such masculine presenting women. In conclusion, to be femme is to be beautiful and lovely but it's also to use your fucking voice and know who and what came before us.

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1950’s Fem and Stud.

[From: Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold]

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Lesbian couple, San Francisco, n.d. From UCSD Archives

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remembering when my literally insane, fuckass abusive-ass mother told me when i was able to get a haircut on my own for the first time to not get anything “short and dykey,” then the following year when i left her house at age 15 i immediately got the gay emo karen cut

i have lived so many lives through my hair, lemme know if you wanna see more of my horrible and not so horrible hair decisions over the years

#lesbian #dyke #femme #femme4butch #femme dyke #femme lesbian #lesbian hair

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vintage lesbian pin flag by Gabriella Analise @luckiestdyke

all pins sourced through different platforms online, many of which were originally shared through @lesbianherstoryarchives

more on @eclecticcollectivezine on other platforms!

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Iridessence at Dandy Wellington’s Windy City Strut. Photo by Alaura Creative.

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worth noting that virginia giuffre, a noteable epstein victim, was first abused by a close family friend and her own father (who she also claimed accepted payments from epstein), and a lot of sex trafficking starts at home--it's not a kidnapping in a van situation, these girls are already vulnerable to abuse. they have already been stripped of autonomy. the stranger danger narrative has done immeasurable damage to abuse prevention

let's not forget how racism plays into these narratives either--qanon is always touting a sex trafficking narrative of 'white girl kidnapped by cartel' when in reality it's their own family, friends, etc at fault...you can't ignore reality forever

and at the end of the day csa is an issue in patriarchy that is not isolated by race or class. that's why right wing "traditional values" always include stripping women and children of bodily autonomy. this is something that needs to be maintained by force, because it is not natural, no matter how many people try to claim it is. if it was natural it would not lead to prolonged physical and psychological damage.

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Absolutely true, but to add - many young women and girls who’ve been trafficked or are still being trafficked do not know they or understand they are because of this history of familial abuse.

When abuse is a fundamental part of the way your brain develops, it connects your abusers ie: people who you are told are your protectors, safety, people who have your best interests at heart and love you, to the acts the commit and tells you this is what normal relationships look like.

Reality becomes obscured, and healthy relationships if you have never experienced them, become harder to describe and pursue when your brain is literally wired differently because of ptsd and the abuse.

A more common example of this is women who have experienced childhood abuse (whether CSA or not) who then struggle in adulthood to identify red flags and abusive behaviour in their partners. Leading to repeatedly abusive relationship because you do not know what is normal anymore.

#seriousposting #frontline work #tw trafficking

I love my little vintage outfits so much.

1940s hat, dress and shoes