Lesbian Loki's Library

writing and book/essay discussion from a trans masc lesbian Lokean. also, zines (36, he/they)

[cloudofbutterflies]

Eryka Caldwell is a back trans woman who was murdered by her partner in her apartment last Sunday, and the story is getting a fraction of the attention that the murder of Juniper Blessing did. The police had already been called several times about her partners violence before her murder and did nothing, and she deserves the same outrage and mourning as Juniper got, and every one of our murdered trans siblings deserves. Trans women of color are more likely to be the victims of murder than any other group of queer people, and they need our solidarity, protection and support.

Trans Woman Eryka Caldwell Fatally Stabbed in Bushwick, Brooklyn

Caldwell’s boyfriend, 38-year-old Jonathan Fernandez, has been charged with murder.

[cloudofbutterflies]

Her family has a gofundme, please donate to them if you can so that they can transport her back home for her funeral.

Donate to Bringing Eryka Home for a Loving Farewell, organized by Loretta Worthy

My family is asking for help in the unexpected loss of my cousin, Eryka Caldw… Loretta Worthy needs your support for Bringing Eryka Home for

[shadow-rider-system]

@lesbianlokiwrites : oh I'm definitely getting us tickets to see that

Nyelv: What?

Loki: well I meant is *points to himself and his girlfriend* but you can come too, there's free tickets to Julius Ceaser in Central Park

Nyelv: I do want to see it but I don't wanna be a third wheel

Loki: You wouldn't be a third wheel

Lakia: Yeah I'll be there so it'll still be a double date, we're just in the same body

Nyelv: Smartass

[shamebats]

Dr. Alan Hart helped pioneer the use of chest X-rays to diagnose tuberculosis. Hart was married to a woman and practicing medicine in San Francisco in 1918 when he was outed as a trans man by a former colleague. Dr. Hart was chased out of town on the back of headlines like “Girl Poses as Male Doctor in Hospital" (he was not posing, of course) and spent much of his life moving from town to town to escape various forms of transphobia. Hart was also a novelist, and wrote of one of his characters, "When it came to outrunning gossip he found he couldn't do it," which was Hart's experience as well—he moved seven times in nine years all around the U.S. in search of safety, but it always proved fleeting. He did manage to get a graduate degree in radiology, though, and helped show how chest X-rays could show very early signs of tuberculosis, thus allowing patients the opportunity to rest and get adequate nutrition sooner, which contributed to better outcomes. Chest X-rays continue to be an essential diagnostic tool; mobile chest X-ray machines that can be carried via backpack now serve rural communities, so Hart's popularization of this diagnostic method continues to save lives.

From Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green.

[velvetvexations]

"Even cis men?" is the obvious response to my stance that practically anyone can be lesbians, and to answer with another question: are any cis men actually doing that to begin with? I mean, unironically, not as a joke? Because I don't think they are. Generally cis men are not going to sincerely identify with the term the way cis women and trans people will. Cis men essentially self-regulate themselves out of the definition without anyone needing to make that definition have concrete limits.

Whether it's WLW, transmascs who drove through Dykeville to get where they are now, or anyone else, you should assume someone calling themselves a lesbian has a good reason for doing so.

[unspeakablearchives]

[americangerardway]

idk who needs to hear this but if a core part of your personality is hating men you haven't decentered them at all

[crippled-peeper]

if you polled the average trans person in the real world and you asked them if they thought trans men were, by nature of being men, inherently misogynistic predatory incels, their response would probably be “what the fuck are you talking about?” and “are you, like, okay?”

[cornona]

where’s that meme that’s like “we asked queer elders and they asked if we were cops”

[cornona]

found it

[autistichalsin]

"There aren't any trans male historical figures, you guys did nothing"

Maybe if every time we told you about one, like Lou Alcott, you all didn't insist that "she" was just a "woman uncomfortable with female gender roles who wanted to escape the patriarchy" you would see how many transmascs there actually were in history. If you're going to be deliberately obtuse at best and transandrophobic at worst to redefine every trans man as a GNC cis woman, of course you're going to end up with the impression that there were no historical trans men. Like what, do you think that in order for an 1800s trans man to be real he needs to have a portrait drawn with visible top surgery scars? Would THAT satisfy you?

[autistichalsin]

"(Historical figure) wasn't a man, "she" was just a woman uncomfortable with patriarchal female gender roles" is the "they were just very close, good friends" of transmasculine erasure

[photo-vrana]

your greatest creation is yourself

little gift for my bf :)

instagram link

[thesilliestpotato]

I was looking for references and stumbled across a series of paintings from 1930s by Soviet painter Alexander Samokhvalov called "The young women of metro construction"

[orcaking]

SWEET • BOY

available as a sticker through february 2026

[transguyarchive]

🪻the Transmasculine Love zine🪻

❤️‍🔥February is, among other things, the month of (mostly corporate driven) love. To take back the power from corporations and governmental overlords who'd rather shove us all into a box, we'd like to redefine what ~love~ means to us. Is it romantic? Platonic? Familial? Something else entirely? ❤️‍🔥

The Trans Guy Archive wants to know what transmasculine love means to YOU. Is it a biting essay on the price gouging of chocolates? A beautiful abstract portrait? A poem in the shape of a penis? You submit it, we'll publish it! :writing_hand: Submissions are open to everybody, though we prioritize people who identify along the transmasculine spectrum.

📝We're also giving you the chance to reach out to the wider trans community by offering inexpensive classified ads for $1 USD. Classified ads don't have to necessarily be promoting something. You can take space in this zine to scream into the voice, request mutual aid, find love, or anything else that you think a dollar is worth. The printing the TGA does for these zines and our business cards is a bit costly, so this also serves as a great way to support the work we do! 📝

We will NOT publish works containing explicit hate speech and bigotry against trans guys or any other minority groups.

We WILL publish NSFW/erotic works*, if you choose to submit.

*No watersports, scat, ABDL, or illness play. Sorry.

The deadline for *all* submissions is FEBRUARY 26th, 11:59 pm EST.

Questions about your submission? Feel free to DM us!

Submit your creative work/classified here -> https://forms.gle/o2Q2FrNVeP76L3et8

[lesbianlokiwrites]

Hey y'all! I wanted to introduce a project I'm working on: "Bound: A Zine Covering BDSM and Disability" and also call for submissions.

Our first issue will come out in April, and since April is considered World Autism Month and so many of us have that diagnosis, the first issue will be loosely themed around autism. But anyone with any kind of disability can submit, and if your piece doesn't make it into this issue, I will likely save it for a future one. At least initially, I'm planning on a 32 page zine, but I'm not setting upper limits on word counts or the number of images you can submit. Send me what you have, and I will work with you to get it published at full length, even if we have to edit or serialize it.

Here's what I need from you:

1. Your work, along with the title you'd prefer for the work(s)

2. The name you want to be credited under. Anonymous is ok, pseudonyms also ok

3. IF you want to direct people to your store, your work, your merch, give me a link where they can find you

4. IF you do want to be named, give me a short bio I can include at the end in the credits. One to two sentences, just describing who you are. Ex: Lesbian Loki is a 36-year-old Dom from Brooklyn. He enjoys reading, art, and taking care of his slave submissive

Since I'm wanting to publish in April, the deadline for the first issue will be March 5. But you can send in your pieces whenever if you're interested in being in a future issue. Send your submissions to [email protected], and I'll take a look and be back in touch in short order.

Other info y'all might want to know: I really admire communist writers like Leslie Feinberg, and ze never cared about getting paid. I'm planning to make the zine pay what you want so that people can download and distribute it for free. Any funds I do make will be used this way: I will use half toward distribution materials (printing, mostly, so I can get it in local bookstores) and half toward mutual aid efforts (I will be researching some mutual aid orgs so I can be more transparent about exactly where the funds are going).

Also, I will be asking the Lesbian Herstory Archive if they want a copy. They document and preserve queer zines made in New York. I will also be submitting it to Internet Archive and any other zine collective I can find

[crippled-peeper]

if you enter any primarily-trans or queer social space with the intent to make trans men “sit down” and “shut up” and “give space” etc I consider you a detriment to the mental health of your community members and I’m going to say something to you about it

[st-dionysus]

And for my fellow trans men, I remind you of the "3 ups" provided by Lou Sullivan's FTM Newsletter back in the 90s. They were relevant than and remain relevant now. Stand Up, Show Up, and SPEAK UP. This motto has been what keeps me moving and pushes me to remain active in queer and trans spaces, even when I face isolation, rejection, abuse, or erasure. Nothing will get better until we make it clear that we deserve a space at the table we helped build.

[lesbianlokiwrites]

[lesbianlokiwrites]

Hey y'all! I wanted to introduce a project I'm working on: "Bound: A Zine Covering BDSM and Disability" and also call for submissions.

Our first issue will come out in April, and since April is considered World Autism Month and so many of us have that diagnosis, the first issue will be loosely themed around autism. But anyone with any kind of disability can submit, and if your piece doesn't make it into this issue, I will likely save it for a future one. At least initially, I'm planning on a 32 page zine, but I'm not setting upper limits on word counts or the number of images you can submit. Send me what you have, and I will work with you to get it published at full length, even if we have to edit or serialize it.

Here's what I need from you:

1. Your work, along with the title you'd prefer for the work(s)

2. The name you want to be credited under. Anonymous is ok, pseudonyms also ok

3. IF you want to direct people to your store, your work, your merch, give me a link where they can find you

4. IF you do want to be named, give me a short bio I can include at the end in the credits. One to two sentences, just describing who you are. Ex: Lesbian Loki is a 36-year-old Dom from Brooklyn. He enjoys reading, art, and taking care of his slave submissive

Since I'm wanting to publish in April, the deadline for the first issue will be March 5. But you can send in your pieces whenever if you're interested in being in a future issue. Send your submissions to [email protected], and I'll take a look and be back in touch in short order.

Other info y'all might want to know: I really admire communist writers like Leslie Feinberg, and ze never cared about getting paid. I'm planning to make the zine pay what you want so that people can download and distribute it for free. Any funds I do make will be used this way: I will use half toward distribution materials (printing, mostly, so I can get it in local bookstores) and half toward mutual aid efforts (I will be researching some mutual aid orgs so I can be more transparent about exactly where the funds are going).

Also, I will be asking the Lesbian Herstory Archive if they want a copy. They document and preserve queer zines made in New York. I will also be submitting it to Internet Archive and any other zine collective I can find