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buny and plushie love eachothr very much ok?

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“I am not yet comfortable with my own femme-ininity. It is so looked down on– especially in a political community like the one in which I came out, in which I want to continue to be a part. Femme often carries the stigma of the word feminine, and being feminine has traditionally meant powerlessness, passivity, everything that being a woman has traditionally meant. When I first came out, I wanted to be butch. I wanted to outwardly deny patriarchy in general, and men in particular. I wanted them to see me on the subway as I rode to and from school and not feel they could stare and salivate and comment and harass as they pleased. I wanted them to look at me and know in some way I was as tough as they, maybe even tougher, that I didn’t want them sexually, especially sexually, and was in some way in “competition” with them. I wanted to laugh in their faces, saying “fuck you!” I am a black self-identified femme. My hair hangs in loose curls a little below my shoulders. I often wear makeup, and I like high heels, although I seldom wear them. My femme-ininity does not make me victimized. I have a choice in what I look like and who fucks me. The fear, of course, lies in whether what I say and feel and believe about myself is politically correct or not. I still don’t know. In my angst over my femme-ininity, I question my own language. What constitutes ‘hard’? Does it refer to those who look most like men, and if so, what does that mean? If the women I like are ‘hard’, and if 'hard’ means looking like a man, then mustn’t women inherently be 'soft’, at least in my mind? Where is my thinking?”

— Paula Austin, from The Persistent Desire, edited by Joan Nestle

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JACOB ANDERSON for The Vampire Lestat Backstage Pass, Episode 1: "Detroit"

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Madeline D. Davis in “The Femme Tapes” by Joan Nestle, Madeline Davis, and Amber Hollibaugh (recorded 1982)

published in The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (1992), ed. Joan Nestle

but I did touch her manually and made her climax and that was the way she came. It was quite a different experience from the next woman I got involved with about four months later, who really was a stone butch. She put her hand up inside of me and she came! And then I thought, “There was something else happening here.”

And this was a woman whom I was not in love with. She was cute, a short chunky version of Beebo Brinker; they were all dark with blue eyes then! You know it’s been a type I have been after. I didn't find too many, but after a while my tastes expanded. They had to. But I still look down the street after a dark-haired, blue-eyed woman.

Anyway, this was a woman who was obviously crazy about my body — the second woman — and I got a whole other feeling suddenly. I mean the men wanted to fuck me, they liked me, but this was a woman who loved my body. I never really loved my body. I was comfortable with it. I knew where all its parts were and that it was functional. But I was always somewhat overweight. I never thought I was pretty, and to this day, you know, eight hundred people can say you're gorgeous and you're never going to believe it. But here was a woman who, when she touched me, trembled, and god — the world opened up.

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Watching Killjoys for the first time: It Takes a Pillage

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Every time you go in a public place and something ISN’T disgusting it’s because somebody cleaned it. Every time you feel comfortable using a public bathroom or sitting at a restaurant table or setting something on a gas station counter or playing on a playground it’s because somebody cleaned it.

Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.

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Juvenile gar from work. Probably a shortnose, but it's hard to tell when they're that small. Released

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Somehow it never occurred to me that gar start out as babies. I have never considered what a baby gar would look like. The world is so full of beauty and wonder

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Bro same thing with working as a caseworker.

You'll have a single mother of three who's fleeing a DV relationship. She has no recent work history because her ex kept her barefoot and pregnant. She's struggling with depression+PTSD while trying to find work in a horrific job market.

Now I have to be the one to tell her "Dept of Social Services insists every child over the age of 5 have their own bedroom, so you'll have to get a 4 bedroom, which will likely cost $5000/mo. You will get a housing voucher that covers 50% of the cost, so $2500/mo. You will need to make $90k/yr to comfortably afford this"

You and her both know a full-time minimum wage job comes out to $32k/yr in your area and most of that is going to go towards child care so she can work a job that will never pay enough to cover her living expenses. Even if she worked two full-time jobs, she'd still be ~$30k/yr short of the required income.

She can do everything right, she can work her ass off, she can get benefits, and it still won't make a difference. Her abusive ex is going to get the kids in the divorce simply because he has a steady income and home.

You see, in that moment, the woman start to consider going back to a guy who'll probably kill her and/or the kids someday and there's really fuck all you can do. Like " uhh I can help you apply for SNAP, you'll probably get $200/mo. Sorry for all the systemic issues"

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Two ladybirds having a shag that i edited cbat over

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such insolence... guards? seize her! ...no. stop. not like that. you are doing it gay. why are you seizing her gay style

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they call it amtrak because the trains am on the trak

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For all its faults Tumblr has truly ruined all other social media for me because my friends all have Instagram and are all trying to get me on Instagram more but every time I open Instagram there are like fifteen things screaming for my attention and when I get over myself long enough to start scrolling it's like. Where is my chronological dash. Where is the following-only option. Who are these people. Why are there so many videos. Everyone is screaming at me. And then before I know it I'm thirty minutes into scrolling and I haven't seen a single thing that I actually care about. At least on Tumblr when I see stuff I don't care about I know someone I follow has found a new interest.