[evilkid]

[seabassbitch]

[sapphicisms]

if you’re butch in public you’re showing kids what kind of woman they can be. you’re a marvel and an open door. you are something they might have thought was impossible. you are the proof little butch girls need that they can exist grown up and happy and handsome without changing a single thing

[aly-semi-archived-deactivated20]

Unfortunately, patriarchy does not dole out privilege and oppression according to the words people choose to attach to themselves. Rather, this system continues to categorize bodies by their proximity to femaleness or maleness. Gender nonconformity in this context, of course, is met with all kinds of violence and discrimination, as it represents a challenge to the gender binary that capitalism depends on to structure people’s relationships to capital and labor. Everything from wages to housing are influenced by gender, and people and institutions generally don’t ask you how you identify before treating you like shit. Butch women are not afforded privilege within this system for being masculine, rather they are oppressed for being both female and gender nonconforming. To argue otherwise is to deny the lived experiences of countless butch women, past and present.

RETHINKING CONTEMPORARY QUEER IDENTITY POLITICS - Carmilla Reyes (via alyesque)

[aly-semi-archived-deactivated20]

everyone whose always like “What will happen to fashion and style under socialism and communism” is always so gross to me because its like ill give up decadent clothing in place of people not starving to death and if you wont you are a piece of shit 

[arabbara]

R.I.P. The 2976 American people that lost their lives on 9/11 and R.I.P. the 48,644 Afghan and 1,690,903 Iraqi and 35000 Pakistani people that paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit

[xoellle-deactivated20190624]

this is the only september 11th post I’m reblogging

[segasaturnine]

just incase yall were interested in whats happenin on FL fb right now

[likejunebutethnic]

don't forget

[aly-semi-archived-deactivated20]

when you say women as a class, do you mean class in a marxisyt sense?

Thus it is our historical task, and only ours, to define what we call oppression in materialist terms, to make it evident that women are a class, which is to say that the category of “woman” as well as the category “man” are political and economic categories not eternal ones. Our fight aims to suppress men as a class, not through a genocidal, but a political struggle. Once the class “men” disappears, “women” as a class will disappear as well, for there are no slaves without masters. Our first task, it seems is to always thoroughly dissociate “women” (the class within which we fight) and “woman” the myth. For “woman” does not exist for us: it is only an imaginary formation, while “women” is the product of a social relationship… Furthermore, we have to destroy the myth inside and outside ourselves. “Woman” is not each one of us, but the political and ideological formation which negates “Women” (the product of a relation of exploitation). “Woman” is there to confuse us, to hide the reality “women.” In order to be aware of being a class and to become a class we have to kill the myth of “woman” including its most seductive aspects…

Monique Wittig - One Is Not Born A Woman

[institutionalized-gaming]

October can’t come soon enough

[gayandrewgarfield]

IT IS AUGUST

[its-an-ear-hat-john]

This has been in my likes since last year. It is time.

[back-that-sass-up]

why is its rib cage so gigantic

[yekkes]

No offense but it’d literally be great if there was accessible and abundant media of two women showing real sexual tenderness that wasn’t orchestrated by and for men to jack off to.

[yekkes]

You exist as your own voyeur of the fantasies they have of you, they want you to desire the image of what they desire you to be. To learn an authentic sexual expression as a gay woman is to create in uncharted territory of sexuality that was never meant to exist

[aly-semi-archived-deactivated20]

Any politics which centers “empowerment” through individual lifestyle choices (like wearing make up, etc) is trying to sell you a neoliberal vision of empowerment to divert your attention from the structure and material basis of your oppression.

Empowerment is not good feelings, it’s the boot of the proletariat on the head of the bourgeoise.

[aly-semi-archived-deactivated20]

We need to stop settling for the idea that some nice or peaceful adjustment of our lives will somehow free or liberate us.

Mao still said it best:

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”

That’s what it takes for real empowerment.

[lesbianegg]

more resources for straight women who don’t want to spend their lives with men 2k17

[lesbianegg]

seriously, I think feminism really needs to focus on helping free women from the expectation of marrying men someday, even for straight women. women need to be in a position where they have sufficient emotional, financial, and social support to not be in relationships with men in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, etc. where it is not seen as a negative or strange thing, and they are not wasting time searching for long-term male partners but instead forming healthy friendships with women. we need strong women’s communities that have nothing to do with men, that aren’t based on petty complaining about men but rather on female solidarity that will ultimately free us from male-centred expectations. straight women NEED this imo

[turbopisser]

This image is both cursed and blessed. It’s one of the most powerful images in existence and should it fall into the wrong hands, will spell doom for the world.

[gaymermutual-deactivated-deacti]

if you’re lgbt: what was your first anime + favourite character from that anime

[lesbiantaurus-deactivated202508]

Petition to do away with male and female gender binary; replace with a gender duodecinary (12) system based on astrological sun sign

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

“is being gay genetic” there’s literally no good reason to ask this question. shitheel

[beesintheass]

???

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

what

[beesintheass]

Are you saying that “being gay is genetic” is such an obvious thing that it shouldn’t be asked? Or are you saying that “being gay is genetic” is so untrue that just asking it is offensive?

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

I don’t believe that being gay is genetic, partly because the studies that have been done on the subject have only been able to show loose correlative connections to being gay by conditions such as in-utero hormone levels, birth order, having an identical twin who is gay. The burden of proof lies on the person proposing that it IS true to prove it, and they have not proven it, thus there is no reasonable position to take than to say that being gay is not genetically caused.

I firmly believe that any scientific study that seeks to find the “biological causative variable” to being gay (such as a specific genetic sequence) has a VERY HIGH POTENTIAL to make it easier to commit anti-gay discrimination, anti-gay genocide, anti-gay eugenics, anti-gay conversion therapy. I do not want people to be able to be outed by a genetic test. Many minors and dependents’ safety is contingent on the fact that they are able to withhold the fact that they are gay from their parents and/or guardians. I do not want “gay” to be a part of people’s medical records, since medical records that indicate transgender status, mental illness, HIV positive status, etc, are currently used to discriminate against people. I do not want people to abort their fetus specifically because a test indicates that fetus will grow up to be gay.

I do not want the medical industry to destroy our ability to self-identify. 

What do you do if you are gay but a genetic test claims that you are straight?

I am a 24 year old lesbian transgender woman. When I was about… 15-19 years old I identified as a bisexual male. I do not want a genetic test for gayness to be done to me in order to determine which one of those identities is “fake” and which one is “real.” I do not want such a test to injure my sense of self. I know who I am. 

I believe that gender and sexual orientation are roles that are socially mandated, meaning that these are not universal labels but rather cultural labels. The idea of bringing genetics and biology into this to reinforce the barriers between different labels is horrible and invites social violence.

Gay people do not need such a test. They know they are gay, thus that test is obsolete.

A genetic test for gayness will not cure homophobia, but give it a weapon. 

Instead of homophobes believing “gay people are moral degenerates” they will believe “gay people are, genetically, moral degenerates. Now please give us your blood so we can see if you are subhuman or not.”

[zoe-of-the-veil]

The moment people think that they definitely have found a “gay gene” is the moment that people start getting abortions based off of neonatal genetic testing for it in droves. Anytime that people look for a biological origin for a trait or whatever that is marginalized or discriminated by society, it is going to be used for eugenics.

[why-so-srs]

I think, and please correct me if I’m wrong because I’m a young queer at 25, that historically the idea that there’s a biological reason behind gayness was pushed by the queer community. It’s people saying “I was born this way”, it’s a counter argument to how “your sexuality is unnatural”.

And yes, I can see it easily perverted into the thing OP described. But this line of reasoning wasn’t born out of homophobia, it was the older generations of our community fighting so that we could get to where we are today.

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

Look up the history of homosexuality being legally & medically considered mental illness. In many countries being gay is STILL considered a mental illness, legally and medically. That is what I mean when I talk about medicalization of sexual orientation. 

Medicalization of gay people absolutely predates intra-LGBT “born this way” rhetoric.

Not to sound like I’m being radical for its own sake as a 24 year old, but even if a political position has previously been taken by our elders, that does not mean we, as the younger generation, have to agree. Society has changed. I do not believe in medicalizing being LGBT and I’m not going to take that political position so I can compromise with homophobes and transphobes. Removing being LGBT from mental illness categories is an extremely important thing to do and something that goes on to this day and I think that tying LGBT people to DNA or some other biological marker goes completely counter to material progress for LGBT people.

[37q-archive]

gay historian john demilio talks about reasons why the “born gay” stuff became popular over the past few decades and some problems with it in his essay “Born Gay?”, which you can download here. its very well written and very like non-academically accessible to read and its SHORT so i encourage you to read it

[antiandrogen]

Some of u girls are so attached to these romantic ideas about love and relationships but like All of it is just benevolent misogyny and is designed to strip you of your independent identity and autonomy 🤷🏽‍♀️call me crazy but like as a self-respecting woman i’m not waiting around for any fucking man to choose me and decide when I deserve his commitment because all that shit does is get you hurt and have you looking stupid