Butch Fem Postivity

A blog for lesbian positivity! Fem lesbian from Texas in a butch/fem relationship. I follow back from @obsenitea

[pearlpunch]

[crimson-femme]

Le Monocle, lesbian bar in Paris, circa early 1930s

[radiofreederry]

[partypuppy-nastja]

[p1tstop]

am i gay? by ziwe ft rowan blanchard & queer bait

[ileaveclawmarks]

Little Liza

Del Lagrace Volcano; 1988.

[ierikettu]

[queermasculine]

Kelly and Tanya from Meg Allen’s BUTCH series.

[ileaveclawmarks]

Lucy and Sweat for Close Shave

Photography by Lydia Garnett

Close Shave, an exhibition at Toppins London […] paying homage to Dyke, Butch and transmasc haircuts, style and expression. Close Shave is a collaboration between photographer Lydia Garnett, barber Zara Toppin and curator Lucy Nurnberg. Inspired by Dyke tenderness and the Butch barbershop experience, Close Shave is a body of work that explores themes of Butch-on-Butch care, love, and trust.

[ileaveclawmarks]

Jackie & Stafford / Stafford & Jackie

“Queering Gender”. Del LaGrace; London, 1996.

[funeralparadeofroses]

A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts (1975) dir. Jan Oxenberg

[aye-aye-caption]

[ID: Eight black and white gifs.  The first six show a butch getting ready for a date.  They put on a tie, open a tin of hair gel, style their hair, put on a suit jacket, and show up outside their date’s door holding a bouquet of flowers, smiling nervously but with genuine joy.  The second-to-last gif shows their date- another butch with their own bouquet of flowers- smiling and winking back at them.  In the last gif, the two butches trade bouquets.]

[jobethdalloway]

like EXCUSE ME 

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: Dyke Strippers; Lesbian Cartoonists A to Z , edited by Roz Warren

[campgender]

[image description: an original poem titled “butch/femme” which segues into the text: magic. butch/femme dynamite in the gas tank. butch/femme lower lip swollen from loving. hot + holy. coke can combustion engine. butch/femme cataclysm.

butch/femme burn it all down + blow you a kiss in the ashes. hormone cocktail with a heart-shaped straw. femme as in the other kind of beard. femme as in can’t take home to your mother, or your stomping ground, but those boots plus your voice, baby, i get the picture. butch as in hours researching how to get this right. springsteen in my speakers singing i’ll work for your love.

butch as in washing my dishes. butch as in meant to be held + these frail arms redefining strength. butch/femme through a mirror dimly. butch/femme prophecy. two black tank tops, two buzzcuts, breath in each other’s lungs. end image description.]

[sweatermuppet]

[Image ID: a black and white typography edit. to the left is a black rectangle. inside it is the white outline of a cowboy boot with a rose on it. to the right is text that reads "make love to butches" and below it is "if you should be so lucky!" the whole image has been textured to look aged and photocopied. /End ID]

click for quality + do not remove caption (instagram) (my shop) (get it as a print)

[sweatermuppet]

[Image ID: the same as above expect all the white space is now filled in with a soft pink. /End ID]

plus a pink alt!

[yesterdaysprint]

Saskatoon Daily Star, Saskatchewan, November 4, 1918

[maxineharlow]

butch4butch milestone

[queeranarchism]

There is no Queer History.

I’d like people to genuinely, deeply, accept that. There are histories of queer people and of queer communities. But there is no One Official Queer History that is true of all of us. Instead there is an abundance of queer histories and they are all different.

Tumblr is full of posts declaring that the founding figures of Our Queer History believed this or did that or included those groups, and 9 out of 10 times it is, like, an oversimplification of New York Queer history with some anecdotes from two other US cities mixed in and maybe that one German institute in the 1920s.

Most queer communities in the world do not trace their roots to those events. And we’ve got to stop looking for a single One Official Queer History which we can then use as a foundation for our community and how we do things.

Trans women do not matter because they ‘started Stonewall’. Trans women matter because trans women matter. That’s it. We should prioritize trans women, and queer people of color, and queer sex workers because they bear the brunt of our oppression. Because prioritizing the needs of people who are getting hurt the most is simply the right thing to do. So we can just do that. We don’t need to over-mythologize a single moment that most of us have no genuine historical connection to.

Most cities outside the US that have a Pride, started that event in the 1990s or 2000s. Like Hollywood movies and Coca Cola, Pride was imported for its brand recognition, not because the history of the queer community in those cities traced their roots to Stonewall. And I would argue it stifles opportunities for those communities to commemorate events from their own Queer History.

We didn’t get our queer communities from the US. We build them ourselves. It is high time for a move diverse, multifaceted Queer History in which there are no universal truths and no universal foundational moments. We don’t need Founding Figures. We don’t need brand recognition. We need to be able to be our full, weird, contradictory, paradoxical selves.

[transsexual-menace]

photo of leather dykes taken in london, england by del lagrace volcano in 1988