Femmes & Does

This is a blog for femme lesbians and doe wlw to submit selfies, positive stories, etc. The main goal is to retake the meaning of femme from mainstream cishet media.

[clay-teeth]

I went camping over the weekend.

[fuckmogai]

it’s time to realize that lesbian is not synonymous with terfs. anyone can be a terf; ive seen bi and straight women who were terfs. it’s not something limited to lesbians and saying anyone with a lesbian flag in their icon is automatically a possible terf is lesbophobic!!!

[thekateowen]

Let’s get friendly.  Photo by Kate Owen @thekateowen

[laundryandtaxes]

So good to know that I will never, ever, for the rest of my life, apologize to anyone for being a dyke

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

September 1, 1949: Birthday of Comrade Leslie Feinberg, communist, anti-racist organizer, journalist and author who revolutionized the struggle for transgender rights. Leslie passed away in November 2014.

http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/11/18/leslie-feinberg/

Download the 20th anniversary edition of Leslie’s classic “Stone Butch Blues” at http://lesliefeinberg.net

Read Leslie’s in-depth series on the historical relationship between LGBTQ liberation and the working-class struggle for socialism, “Lavender and Red”: https://www.workers.org/lavender-red/

[afrofeministe]

Illustration / Lo Cole

[efjkkefjnenfr]

@ lesbians…… talk about your feelings

[peachesdyke]

oh and here’s a lil reminder for any lgbt gals to support other lgbt girls and not be a biphobic/transphobic/lesbophobic asshole

[bunnycottage-blog1]

green shirt | black shirt

[badass-bharat-deafmuslim-artista]

Stunning photos from Vogue of traditional Mexican women equestrian riders in the sport of Escaramuza (rodeo sport). Article by Mariel Cruz, Photos by Devin Doyle. 

Last year, photographer Devin Doyle, who’d spent two years photographing high school rodeo culture in the United States, became curious as to what the Mexican equivalent might look like. After all, he says, “It’s the same land, the same ranching culture.” What he found was an exciting competitive equestrian sport performed by women dressed in stunning traditional costumes, a sport directly inspired by the Adelitas—the female soldiers who fought in the Mexican Revolution.

Escaramuza, an event within the larger rodeo-like sport known as charrería (now recognized as Mexico’s national sport) is comprised of teams of up to 16 women (though only eight can compete at a time) performing a series of routines inside a lienzo charro, or stadium, at breakneck galloping speeds—all while riding sidesaddle.

[lesbianherstorian]

photographed by deborah snow on the cover of sinister wisdom no. 8, winter 1979

[tomcats-and-tophats]

I woke up sick and the first thing I saw was people on Facebook getting really mad about Sephora appropriating witchcraft but I see Adventure Time delivered on the gays so congrats on that

[officialdoefemme-blog]

“apropriating witchcraft”, but none of them are going to call themselves out for appropriating smudging? 

[missnothingquotes]

[slowheart]

miss mitski this one goes out to u

[butchyfem]

Not so friendly reminder from a Pakistani butch that butches/stags/GNC women of color are never feminine or betraying their masculinity by wearing their traditional and cultural garments. This goes double for indigenous woman who wear their traditional and cultural dresses and skirts out of love for their culture and heritage

[officialdoefemme-blog]

Submissions are open!

Show us what a femme looks like to you!

Show us how you can be a doe!

[bulldykerwomensblues]

excerpts from Arlene Istar’s “Femme-dyke” about being a Jewish femme dyke and grappling  with femme invisibility, identity, and sexuality. Published in Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (1992). 

[officialdoefemme-blog]

Great read for other femmes who don't feel feminine enough-

"and I suppose that's what being a femme-dyke means. The boys think I'm butch, and the girls think I'm femme"