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The way she writes and speaks feels like someone is firmly but slowly wrapping a hand around my cerebrum. The other plucking the strings of my soul to create music from my cries I didn’t even know was possible for me to make.

My mind, body, and soul submits to her completely. She evokes a pride in belonging to her that no church could ever dream of getting out of me.

I offer myself to you, however and whenever you desire me. I’ve never felt more in my proper place.

#dykeposting #wlw smut #wlw yearning #sapphic yearning #femme lesbian #femme ramblings #the ramblings are actually very targeted #She has me in a chokehold that would make anyone that knows the full extent look away like they’re looking at the midday sun

twistcmyk

R.I.P. JUNIPER BLESSING.

fogliante

i get so irked when i see knight x princess content and it turns out to be a straight couple like don't piss me off

nereshian

Lesbian History

The word lesbian comes from the Greek island of Lesbos, where the poet Sappho lived around 630–570 BCE. Sappho wrote lyric poetry about love, beauty, and relationships between women. Because of her work and connection to Lesbos, the term "lesbian" eventually became associated with women who are attracted to other women.

Sappho's poetry is some of the earliest surviving writing that expresses romantic and emotional feelings between women. Most of her work has been lost, but fragments survive through later writers and historians.

Some of the most important sources include:

Fragments of Sappho's poetry quoted by Longinus in On the Sublime (1st century CE)

References to Sappho in Ovid's Heroides (c. 15 BCE)

Discussions of her work by Athenaeus in Deipnosophistae (3rd century CE)

Because so few ancient texts about relationships between women survive, Sappho's poetry is especially important to lesbian history.

Lesbians in written texts throughout history

Ancient Greece (c. 630–570 BCE) - Sappho writes poems celebrating love and desire between women.

Roman Period (1st–2nd Century CE) - Writers such as Ovid and Martial mention relationships between women, although they often describe them negatively or as unusual.

Medieval Europe (10th–12th Centuries) - Letters between women, especially in convents, show deep emotional bonds sometimes described as "romantic friendships (The correspondence between Benedictine abbess).

1778 – The Ladies of Llangollen - Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby left Ireland and settled together in Wales. They lived openly as companions for over 50 years and became well known throughout Britain.

Early 19th Century – Anne Lister (1791–1840) was an English landowner, diarist, and traveler from Yorkshire. She kept extensive diaries, writing over four million words, partly in a secret code. In these diaries, she recorded her romantic and sexual relationships with women, making them one of the most important historical sources on lesbian life. In 1834, Anne Lister and Ann Walker exchanged vows and took communion together at a church in York, an event many historians consider to be an early form of same-sex marriage. Because of her detailed writings and her openness about loving women, Anne Lister is often referred to as "the first modern lesbian."

19th Century – Boston Marriages

Some women chose to live together in long-term partnerships without marrying men. These relationships were often socially accepted, especially among educated and financially independent women.

The 20th Century

The 1900s brought major changes for lesbian communities.

In the 1920s, cities such as Paris, Berlin, and New York hosted LGBTQ+ social scenes. Berlin's Eldorado club became one of the best-known spaces where lesbians could meet openly before the Nazi regime shut down many queer venues.

During the 1950s, many LGBTQ+ people faced discrimination during the Lavender Scare in the United States. In response, lesbians began organizing for their rights. In 1955, the Daughters of Bilitis became the first lesbian civil rights organization in the U.S. and published The Ladder, one of the first lesbian magazines.

The 1969 Stonewall Riots helped launch the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. Lesbians played important roles in organizing protests, Pride events, and political campaigns.

During the 1970s, writers such as Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich connected lesbian rights with feminism and broader struggles for equality.

The AIDS Crisis and Lesbian Activism

During the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s, many lesbians became caregivers, activists, and organizers. They volunteered in hospitals, helped people access healthcare, organized blood drives, and supported those abandoned by families or institutions.

Lesbians were also active in groups such as ACT UP and later the Lesbian Avengers, helping push governments and medical organizations to respond more effectively to the epidemic.

Many historians point to this period as one reason why the "L" is often placed first in the LGBTQ+ acronym today. It recognizes the important contributions lesbians made to the broader queer rights movement.

Representation in Media

For much of the 20th century, lesbian characters were often portrayed as tragic, dangerous, or destined for unhappy endings. This contributed to stereotypes and the "Bury Your Gays" trope, where queer characters were frequently killed off or denied happy relationships.

Examples of older portrayals include:

The Children's Hour (1961) - quite homophobic, ending in "bury your gays" theme but one of the first movies openly addressing homosexuality on a larger scale. specifically significant since it starred Audrey Hepburn and Shirly MacLaine.

More recent media has offered a wider range of stories and characters:

The L Word (2004–2009; rebooted in 2019)

Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Gentleman Jack (2019–2022)

Symbols

Several symbols have become associated with lesbian identity:

Labrys – A double-headed axe adopted by some lesbian and feminist groups in the 1970s.

Black Triangle – Reclaimed from the symbol used by the Nazis to identify women considered "asocial," including some lesbians.

Lesbian Pride Flag – The most widely used modern version is the orange, white, and pink striped flag introduced in 2018.

Lesbian history is often less visible than other parts of LGBTQ+ history because many women's relationships were ignored, hidden, or not recorded. Learning about figures such as Sappho, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich helps show that lesbian communities have existed throughout history and have played an important role in literature, culture, activism, and social change.

Other honorary mentions:

Sappho, Fragments

Ovid, Heroides

Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (1991)

Bonnie Zimmerman (ed.), Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures (2000)

Martha Vicinus, Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778–1928 (2004)

faeandnight

Don't chain her to the wall too tightly...not at first. Give her a few feet of lead.

You want to hear the jingle jangle of the links rattling together; scraping over concrete as she rushes towards you when she hears you coming down the steps.

You want to hear the choked gasp as she runs out before she can get close enough to rub herself against you.

You want to watch her struggle to reorient her body, twisting and straining, trying any position she can think of to get her needy cunt even a fraction of an inch closer to where you stand, just close enough for her to smell your intentions, just far enough away to keep her from doing something about it.

And once you step into her space, get her in your hands, you want her to have enough leash to try and flee, because what's happening to her isn't what she thought. Because she doesn't know that you put a security camera in the corner. Because she doesn't know you saw her touching herself without permission last night.

THEN, to help her understand consequences, you can tighten the chains.

lialillith

I’ve been staring at my phone jaw open for 10 minutes Jesus Christ

faeandnight

"I'm going to the gym tonight" I say.

"That will help" I say.

But I know good and goddamn well I'll be spending the entire time picturing throwing you around like a glorified chew toy with a squeaker in your gspot.

sunanthrope

"But what if people will pretend to need this accessibility option so they can be lazy! People who don't need it will use it!!" I don't actually care

I dont care if 9/10 of the people who use the wheelchair ramp arent actually in wheelchairs. As long as the 1 person who needs it has access to it.

I dont care if 9/10 people who use the automatic push button on the library door can actually push the door open themselves. As long as the 1 person who the door is too heavy for gets to use it.

I dont care if 9/10 people who buy the can tab opener, or the little guitar clamp that holds the chords for you, or the hand grip that helps you hold chop sticks, don't need any of it and just get it to "be lazy". As long as the one disabled person who needs it gets access to it.

I do not care. Oh my GOD I do not care. As long as there's a disabled person on this planet who the accessibility device will benefit, the accessibility device is necessary.

Also, if you're so worried about people being "lazy" by using accessibility devices, MORE worried than you are about disabled (visibly or not) people not having access to them, you have unchecked ableism you need to work through.

ethelcainscloset

SHES BACK ON TUMBLR

creamhearts

why are yall so afraid to double text like ill be out here sending 9 messages in a row buzz buzz another message? its me bitch i just got a lot to say!!

puppygirllaika

i know growing up christian was very traumatizing for you, but you gotta learn to separate the idea that your weird doomsday cult is not representative of all human faith and spirituality just because it's popular.

fineshespretty

this whole ‘sexuality is fluid thing’ just doesn’t connect to me because in my head i levelled up from straight, then bi to lesbian. i reached my final form

marxistcalvinisthobbesist

Remember Harpy

myhotrodisaflyingsaucer

“i-is this wuh luh wuh 🥺🥺” no bitch this is DYKE posting. this is a L-L-L-LESBIAN POST *air horn noises*

gothboobs

happy birthday lesbians

lvambi-deactivated20250830

"Femme" is not a merely sexual identity. "Femme" is not just a way to say that you are feminine.

Femme, to me, is a broad, wide and freeing gender identity, inherently connected with the fact that I am a sapphic, a lesbian. Femme isn't a monolith, and that's why it is so comforting. It's an exploration of the feminine spirit in a purely queer way, something that transcends the meaning of "femininity" as it is.

Femme is a warm blanket, a safe embrace of protective arms, a fair and careful judgement, it's elloquence, wit, and a good spirit.

Femme means lack of identity with heteronormativity. It means being ready to help the community, respect and love for butches and other femmes, it means socioeconomical, political and historical awareness.

Femme is Fierceness. Fierceness is Femme.