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23 year old radfem lesbian

[lavendrdyke]

lesbian zine submission request

lesbians! please feel free to click on the form below and fill out what lesbianism means to you

this will be included in a zine that's being made and all responses (happy, sad, poetry, drawings, anything) would be super appreciated!

Lesbian Zine Submissions

This form has been created to collect submissions from lesbians everywhere about what being a lesbian means to them. Any response is welcome

we wanted to make this because there are so many takes from non-lesbians about what lesbianism is or isn't (it's fluid, it's restrictive, it's exclusionary, blah blah blah) so please help us spread some real lesbian viewpoints!!

[turbofanatic]

Teeth

Has anyone else noticed that in the largely female horror/monster artist  community on DA and tumblr (myself included) tends to focus a LOT on teeth, mouths, and violence as a consumptive act (there’s a lot of cannibal characters is what I’m sayin’) and that seems as a bit of a weird counter to mainstream horror and monster art where violence is nearly always penetrative? It’s usually knives, chainsaws and blades, heck even the Alien had a phallic mouth used to bore into faces.

Is this even a thing happening consciously?

No? Never mind then.

[psshaw]

I… am trying to figure out approximately how much this post has irrevocably changed my life.

[bombushuntii]

okay so we actually talked a lot about horror in my philosophy class this past week?

and like one of the things about typical horror movies is that they’re very much about violence towards women? like i don’t want to say that all horror movies are about violence towards women but i also don’t want to talk for a thousand years on the nuances of that trope so long story short if you watch a lot of horror movies there’s a lot of penetration imagery and blending the boundaries of sex and violence. and even the entire “final girl” trope that has become a basic structure of horror is basically asking for all of this imagery of penetration and violation etc. and all of it happens because the victims in horror movies are often women because he stereotype is that women are vulnerable. i’m probably explaining this really badly it’s all waaaaaaaay more nuanced than this but it all kind of ties together in a really fascinating way.so when you look at it that way, it makes sense that a lot of monsters created by/for men (i.e., mainstream monsters) are going to be penetrative. as for monsters created by women being consumptive… that’s a very interesting trend and there’s probably a reason for it but i havent thought about it enough to pick one out

[craftastrophies]

I wonder how much of that, then, is tied up with women’s consumption being a subversive act? Women being encouraged to not consume or take up space, so that then greedy, unapologetic consumption and largeness and loudness and appetite becomes monstrous, which could be problematic. But when driven by the people who are told not to consume, it become atavistic and wish-fulfilling and an outlet for impulses and desires, which the best horror always does.

[gishifu]

Are y'all dancing around the clearly yonic metaphor on purpose or like

[a-terf]

Men like to hurt women with their dicks so of course their horror reflects that. Women are afraid of consuming, giving in to murderous rages and feasting on everything in our path like a feral animal.

Women’s lives are a constant performance piece, we’re constantly plucking and pruning and denying ourselves things to be more feminine i.e. beautiful. What happens when we stop controlling the beast? When we stop adding chains? The control we have over our bodies is the only control most of us have. We fear what we’ll become when we stop pretending to be something else entirely.

And we’re hungry. Hungry for food and words and comfort and freedom. No wonder our monsters consume so much. We’re starving.

[user87262893]

There is also an entire model of consumption being skipped over here, and that is how women are consumed. We are a product. We are bought and sold and demanded to adapt and fit and commodity ourselves and our bodies for consumption. We are taught to be consumable, be bite sized, be devourable. How is our horror not reflective?

Men make penetrative horror because they see themselves as the powerful beast penetrating. Women make violence as a consumptive act because we know we are the things being consumed.

[feminescu]

im wondering if it also has something to do with our bodily “weapons”? the penetrative aspect has been talked about, but what can a woman “out of control” do when she’s physically attacked? no, a better first question would be what does a threatened cornered animal do when you try to touch it? it bites you. how many of us have been told to scratch, to pull out eyes, to kick nuts and to bite when men attack us? what can a woman do when a man covers her mouth with his hand? she bites it. what’s a thing some women say they’d do if they would ever be forced to suck a dick? bite it off. i think we also need to look into the feral, primal, defensive aspect of teeth related horror made by women and not just the consuming aspect

vagina dentata is a nightmare scenario for men. it’s about men’s penetrative attack and women defending themselves by biting and causing bodily harm to those men

teeth horror made by women is an image of what we could become when we’re victims of male violence. this is just our defence mechanism in a monster form

[chadradfem]

UK radfems, pls sign this petition!

Petition: Update the Equality Act to make clear the characteristic “sex” is biological sex

The Government must exercise its power under s.23 of the Gender Recognition Act to modify the operation of the Equality Act 2010 by specifyi

[chadradfem]

The petition now has over 15,000 signatures! Keep spreading the word on here and elsewhere

[thechanelmuse]

Remnants of the British Black Panther’s Lost Legacy

[clatterbane]

Britain’s black power movement is at risk of being forgotten, say historians

The Cambridge academic Robin Bunce said: “There is a fundamental danger of erasing the very notion of a struggle at all. I’ve been researching this for four and a half years and there have been so many occasions when people have said to me: ‘There was no black struggle in Britain. You’re thinking of South Africa or America.’“

The narrative that feeds it is the one that Britain is the utopia of fair play. We have such a commitment to individual rights, we have such a commitment to common sense and decency that there is no systematic racism in Britain.”…

Bunce said it was not just politicians, but wider British society that would rather not dwell on the less palatable.

[clatterbane]

Bringing this one back, while I’m reminded.

[positivityforlesbians]

Sending love to all the lesbians out there who use a short version of their name because it sounds more boyish and more in line with their personality. Plenty of lesbians have done that through history, generations after generations, and plenty of lesbians do that still today, it’s part of our culture and will never not be a thing. Be proud of yourself, you deserve to. 😘

[positivityforlesbians]

Reblogging one of these very first posts of mine because two years later it doesn’t stop being extremely accurate. I was watching an interview of Tig Notaro and her real/official name is actually Mathilde, see how she chose to be called differently because it sounds less feminine and more in line with her butch self. Young girls who are noticing they’re attracted to women should know that doing this is very much a part of lesbian culture (but any girl/woman can do it if she wants) and not a sign of anything else. You’re allowed to be referred with a more neutral or masculine name, it’s perfectly okay. ✨

[loveydoveyfemme-archive-deactiv]

a lot of the lesbians that i personally know, myself included, don’t like being called q*eer because it feels like it’s somehow leaving our sexualities up for debate. it feels like people are scared of the finality of “lesbian.” if i’m a lesbian, that means no men, whatsoever. i love women and women-aligned people. but if i’m q*eer, that can leave so much to your imagination. maybe i like men, maybe i don’t. maybe it’s just my gender up for discussion, maybe it’s just that i don’t fit the status quo. going out of your way to call all lesbians q*eer instead of lesbians means that you don’t respect our right to the only identity that has ever truly felt like it’s fit us. i don’t want to be called q*eer for several reasons, but i especially don’t want to be called it OVER lesbian.

[sapphiconoclast]

and y’know what? that’s fine, you don’t have to be called a word if you don’t like it

what is not fine is telling other people that their identity is a slur.

also… there are people in this world who identify as lesbians and are attracted men. you don’t get to tell them they’re identifying incorrectly. 

please consider who else in the lgbt-adjacent community is invested in trying to make sure that words have concrete meanings that only they can determine.

[lavendrdyke]

also... there are people in this world who identify as lesbians and are attracted men. you don’t get to tell them they’re identifying incorrectly. 

not sure why identity seems to be this Totally Untouchable thing to you but, yes actually, we very much can tell people that they are identifying incorrectly if they are literally misusing words and disregarding the definition of them.

[beholdingslut]

things linguistics has taught me: do not fuck with the welsh

[animate-mush]

Seriously though do not. This is welsh nationalism in a nutshell.

So like, 150 or so years ago, nobody cared about Welsh. Not even the welsh. But then, one day, some folks got sick of paying the tolls at toll gates. Citing bizarre biblical precedent, they dressed up as women and started seizing toll gates, at which point the (also welsh) gate owners went “WTF?” and called in (english) magistrates to resolve the dispute.

The English Magistrates looked at the situation and went “WTF?” and commissioned an inquiry loosely titled “WTF is wrong with Wales??”

Well this commission did a ton of work and looked at schools and politics and people on hillsides raising sheep and all that jazz and came to the thrilling conclusion: What’s Wrong with Wales is that Ridiculous Backwards Language they all speak there.

There was a moment of dead silence, broken only by the loud scrape as Wales, collectively, as a nation, in a fit of unity not seen since the castles came to subjugate the native tribes, pushed back its chair, stood up slowly, and said “what you just say bout me?”

And folks who’d never heard it spoken started teaching their children Welsh, and the old sheep herder on the hill became a cultural icon, and the rioters and the gate owners high fived each other and said “suck it, England!” (only in Welsh this time).

And now Welsh is a protected language, there’s a strong Welsh nationalist movement, with its own flag and spelling conventions, and there’s a Welsh channel on television (which is doubly impressive when you remember that Britain only has like three channels).

And that is how the Welsh saved their language from extinction by sheer force of spite

[slutty-ankylosaurus]

Just gotta add those toll booth riots were called the Rebecca Riots, the rioters were known as Rebeccas and I am named after them. It’s the one consolation to an otherwise boring name.

Also my great grandad lived to the age of 101 and never spoke a word of English that wasn’t forced out of him through threat of unemployment. Despite being fluent and having 5 great grandchildren who have the Welsh vocabulary of toddlers.

[elsiebub-deactivated20171125]

let me tell you some of the ways the English tried to kill our language

in Tudor times they brought in the “Act of Union” which banned the use of Welsh in public settings 

in the 1800s they brought in the “Welsh Not” in schools. if a child was heard speaking Welsh in school, they were given the Not. if another child spoke it, it was passed on. the person left with the Not at the end of the day was caned.

 in the 1960s they refused to have Welsh language signs for roads, streets etc. so we ripped all of them out and deposited them outside government buildings until they installed bilingual signs

i could go on but it makes me too angry so i won’t

Welsh is the oldest living language, and is beautiful. fight me.

[the-haiku-bot]

let me tell you some

of the ways the English tried

to kill our language

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[yungdonr]

people run away from love when it gets hard and that’s not the love i want

[nansheonearth]

Suggestion to women: stop wearing makeup

Suggestion to feminists: stop wearing makeup

Suggestion to radfems: stop wearing makeup

Benefits:

Girls will see bare faced women

Society will be less accustomed to expecting women to wear makeup

A male CEO will not have your money in their pocket

Your money will be in your pocket. You can buy weed with that

Your skin will feel better without harmful chemicals on it

Eventually they'd have to stop making that shit

Less microplastics in the ocean

Less animal testing

You'll have more confidence in yourself

Probably will make capitalism feel bad or something

[cileopatra]

I’m proud of me not wearing makeup 🔥

[verifiedferalduck]

Not to be controversial, but I don't entirely agree.

Absolutely it should not be required or "expected" to be seen as professional or beautiful. Yes, the industry is highly flawed and needs to change. Never again do I want to hear a father look at his pimple faced 12 year old and say "isn't it time you start wearing makeup to cover that up?"

However. Every day I see people of all genders and ages using makeup for self expression and an act of rebellion. This argument reeks of "I only think about adult cis het women who are performing for the male gaze/patriarchy" Not the 80 year old woman who refuses to give up brightly colored eyeshadow, or the young trans girl who only wears makeup at school, or the little boy who sees a man at the store wearing nail polish and feels hope that he can be himself or the femme lesbian who uses bright and creative makeup to signal to her community that she's not straight, or the teen with heavy eyeliner rebelling against their parents traditional beauty standard expectations.

[nansheonearth]

Yeah I don't see makeup as a rebellion and rarely is it an expression. This applies to any gender wearing it.

[angelichater]

how does bright and creative eye makeup signal to the general population that you're a femme lesbian? ☠

[damnseldistressed]

some of you honestly speak like you're getting PAID by the makeup industry for PR.

[mint-fem]

Are you paid to lick the boot or do you just do it for free ?

[lavendrdyke]

i havent been active on radblr for 3+ years and most people i followed seem to be inactive now!!

radfems if you can like/reblog this if you still post on here and i will follow bc i miss having a busy dashboard <3

[womynwarfare]

hi !

[lavendrdyke]

hi! i love ur icon and url heh

[peelsofpoetry]

I Did Think, Let’s Go About This Slowly by Mary Oliver

I did think, let’s go about this slowly. This is important. This should take some really deep thought. We should take small thoughtful steps.

But, bless us, we didn’t.

[lavendrdyke]

lesbian zine submission request

lesbians! please feel free to click on the form below and fill out what lesbianism means to you

this will be included in a zine that's being made and all responses (happy, sad, poetry, drawings, anything) would be super appreciated!

Lesbian Zine Submissions

This form has been created to collect submissions from lesbians everywhere about what being a lesbian means to them. Any response is welcome

we wanted to make this because there are so many takes from non-lesbians about what lesbianism is or isn't (it's fluid, it's restrictive, it's exclusionary, blah blah blah) so please help us spread some real lesbian viewpoints!!

[justanoldacc]

formerly trans identifying female spills the tea on the T

[lavendrdyke]

i havent been active on radblr for 3+ years and most people i followed seem to be inactive now!!

radfems if you can like/reblog this if you still post on here and i will follow bc i miss having a busy dashboard <3

[criterionfilms]

Jodie Foster in a promotional shoot for The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

[reantlered]

life is all about creating more opportunities to meet lesbians. and thinking about new tattoos

[zluuuuue]

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I know that many times this movies are seen as the monstrosity of womanhood, so I wanted to draw them together…like as a kind of comforting thing