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Maranda | 19 | Lesbean

[pluvioi]

Mutuals this acc is going to be deleted in a while

If you want to follow me still I'll be @femme-flora

:3

[sergle]

lounging around pinktober #1

[genderedslurs-moving]

identity politics really took a massive plunge once the ideology surrounding it transformed from “whats a good way to describe my identity/who im attracted to” to “what identites are valid?” (hint: it turned into all of them), which turned from ppl saying “i am a dude and i like dudes, i must be gay” to “im scared of ppl reciprocating my feelings, i must be lithrosexual (and definitely dont have anything to work through with a therapist)” its absolutely insane how “validation” has thrown people into cycles of normalizing their unhealthy habits and symptoms of trauma lol… terfs and truscum dont touch this post also eat a bag of dirt

[psifever-deactivated20201216]

literally and its evolved to the point that any criticism of unnecessary or even harmful identities is evil or abusive or something like .. making your fears or trauma a core part of your identity doesnt do anything but harm you in the long run bc you ignore glaring issues in favor of “validity”…. sometimes you aren’t lithrosexual you just need a therapist

[ecology-of-the-inhuman]

Help Six Nations in their struggle to reclaim their land! Indigenous activists are being arrested in their homes (even if they live several hours away), those bringing food, water and supplies are being arrested! Six Nations is the largest Indigenous reserve in Canada, but has no access clean water and is therefore reliant on others bringing bottled water, yet these people are now being arrested

1492 Land Back Lane - Legal Fund, organized by 1492 Land Back Lane

On July 19 2020 The Land Defenders of 1492 Land Back Lane stopped the housing dev… 1492 Land Back Lane needs your support for 1492 Land Back

[ecology-of-the-inhuman]

Court Date Looms As Police Pressure Mounts For Land Defenders

COURT DATE LOOMS AS POLICE PRESSURE MOUNTS FOR LAND DEFENDERS

[The OPP have asked camp spokesperson Skyler Williams to turn himself in for arrest this week, with the next court date for the injunction against the reclamation of 1492 Land Back Lane coming next week.

The press release from the camp highlighted the arrest, tasing, and shooting of rubber bullets on August 5th – only two days before the key injunction court date on August 7th – as a way of making preparation for the court date impossible.

The land defenders are battling on two fronts. One front is the criminal legal pressure of mounting arrests and the threat that more police violence brings, and the second front is fighting –against the odds – to navigate the expensive and complex civil court injunction.

“Facing criminal charges while going through a civil court process at the same time is very difficult,” Skyler Williams said in the release, “using two different court processes to prosecute Indigenous people who are protecting their land is a colonial tactic that makes real justice unattainable.”

Justice Harper cited a lack of formal engagement in the court process as a reason for extending his injunction order on August 25th. This judge called property rights sacrosanct and said that “chaos, mayhem and anarchy would prevail” if the rule of law were not upheld.

“Indigenous people are told over and over again to engage in these formal processes that are inaccessible, incredibly expensive, and take a very long time,” Skyler Williams also said in the press release from the camp, “our community has been in the specific claims process for nearly 25 years.”

The court process in Canada is expensive and comes with a price tag too high for land defenders to currently meet. Civil litigators contacted by Land Back Lane land defenders gave estimates between $250,000 up to as much as $1.5 million to challenge the injunction. A Go Fund Me to raise legal funds sits at $150,000 – well short of the low estimate to fight the injunction.]

[retrospektiw-deactivated2024081]

still laughing my ass off to this

[soupknightbeingdemoted-deactiva]

eminem said

[nicksand]

[rainbow-burst]

QMFMZMDMSMDDMDM

[contemporarypakistaniart]

A group of artists installed a child’s portrait facing up in the heavily bombed Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa region of Pakistan, where drone attacks regularly occur. 

One of the most powerful art installations we’ve seen in a long time.

Please read more about the project #NotABugSplat at http://notabugsplat.com/

[whitepeopletwitter]

[elriabrunnr]

Petition link

El senador Ricardo Monreal está impulsando reformas a la Ley Federal del Derecho de Autor y al Código Penal Federal para adecuar la legislac

[jewish-people-problems]

Jewish People Problem #20

When you can’t find a single book with a Jewish protagonist that isn’t about the holocaust

[gayjewishbish]

I actually read a really nice novel that had decent Jewish representation when I was in college and its story was about a murder mystery. Due to how my memory works, I lost the book and I forgot the title :( :( :(

[overgoldengroveunleaving]

okay I wrote a really long thing and my phone deleted it so here is take 2 of my MASTERPOST OF NON-HOLOCAUST-CENTRIC JEWISH MC’s:

Historical Fiction

“All Other Nights” by Dara Horn - Jewish spy for the union in the civil war

“Shylock’s Daughter” by Marjam Pressler - retelling of the Merchant of Venice with a sympathetic Shylock and a historically accurate look at the Ashkenazi AND Sephardic Jewish community in 16th century Italy

“The Chosen” by Chaim Potok - Hassidic + Modern Orthodox Jewish boys ‘friendship’ (lbr we all ship it) in 1945-1948 NYC

“My Name is Asher Lev” by Chaim Potok - ultra-orthodox Jewish boy takes up art, paints a crucifixion scene, and sh*t hits the fan

“The Museum of Extraordinary Things” - Jewish photographer + (non-Jewish) daughter of a sideshow owner meet and fall in love in turn of the century Brooklyn, and also a subplot about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

“Escape from Egypt” by Sonia Levitin - retelling of the Passover story

“Daniel Deronda” by George Eliot - it’s like Jane Austen. With Jews! (And while everything is not all hunky-dory, it’s also not the antisemitic travesty I’ve come to expect from 19th century gentile writers).

Contemporary

“Hacking Harvard” by Robin Wasserman - 3 nerds take on a bet to get a slacker/stoner into Harvard (also a really nice critique of the college admissions process tbh)

“The Pact” by Jodi Picoult - (suicide tw) A tragedy hits 2 families. The novel centers on a trial and flashbacks to the event in question. 

“Someone to Run With” by David Grossman - set on the streets of Jerusalem, a boy tries to return a lost dog to its owner, a girl who has run away from home in search of her brother (this is the English translation, obviously, but if you can read novels in Hebrew I highly recommend reading the original, משהו לרוץ איתו)

Urban Fantasy/Fantasy/SciFi

“The Mediator” series by Meg Cabot - teenaged girl starts seeing ghosts / YA romance (although the fact that the MC is Jewish is not even remotely relevant to the plot, it is mentioned outright several times which is more than most books)

“The Cure” by Sonia Levitin - futuristic dystopian society tries to cure one young man’s appreciation of music by sending him to a Jewish shtetl in 13th century Poland (fair warning for dystopian fans, though, the middle 2/3rds reads like historical fiction, so.)

Children’s (Middle Grade) Books

“All of a Kind Family” by Sydney Taylor - the classic “1920s NYC Jewish family”

“Dave at Night” by Gail Carson Levine - boy sneaks out of an orphanage in early 20th century NYC

“Witness” by Karen Taylor Hesse - told in free verse, the KKK visits a small town  (I’m including it because it’s not a Holocaust book, and it’s really good, but it still might  will set off your antisemitism sensors so fair warning)

“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” by Judy Blume - Classic. (Also, takes on an interfaith family in a really interesting and nuanced way!)

“Samir and Yonatan” by Daniella Carmi - two boys (one Israeli, one Palestinian) end up in the same hospital and learn that they have more in common than they thought

Plays

“Angels in America” by Harold Kushner - I can’t even begin to describe this one just google it. (or: Jewish and Mormon gay people in NYC during the AIDS epidemic, and also angels)

“Thirteen: The Musical” by Dan Elish and Robert Horn, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown - Jewish boy’s parents get divorced and he moves from NYC to Appleton, Indiana right before his Bar Mitzvah

[annekewrites]

Also for children’s books: Rebecca in the American Girl historical collection is a Russian Jewish immigrant.

Also for weird epic romances, I remember Cynthia Freeman having a lot of Jewish protagonists.  One of her books (Illusions of Love) slightly discusses the Holocaust but it is from the perspective of an American Jewish character who served in World War II and it’s not presented as *the* thing that defines him.  (Most of that book is a love triangle between this character, the Nice Jewish Girl his parents want him to marry, and an Irish-Catholic woman from a poor background who works her way into an advertising career.)

[thedappercat]

I haven’t read them [yet? to-read list miles long, concentration about an inch long] but if you’re down with indie-pub check out @shiraglassman who authors a series of fantasy novels featuring f/f couples. I’ll bet she knows more novels t add to the list too!

(sorry hope it’s cool i @’ed you ms glassman)

[shiraglassman]

It is definitely cool! I actually didn’t get the @ notification for some reason but I found this post just poking around Jumblr and then checked the notes to see what people were saying on it. I do have books to add to this list; not just my own–as you said, fluffy f/f-focused fantasy starring Mostly Jews–but also:

Miss Jacobson’s Journey by Carola Dunn (review) - Regency-era spy romance about escaping from France and getting back to England. Hero and heroine are both Jewish and although they’re Ashkies, it has Sephardic rep as well

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (review) - 1900′s fantasy set in the immigrant communities of NYC. Beautiful epic drama about friendship.

…and wonderful graphic novels like The Rabbi’s Cat, the Rabbi Harvey books (our legends told as if they were set in the American Wild West), and the Mirka books (fantasy starring an Orthodox pre-teen girl.)

The YA LGBT contemporaries Gone Gone Gone by Hannah Moskowitz and My Year Zero by Rachel Gold have Jewish MC’s. And non-LGBT but YA about Orthodox teenager is Playing with Matches by Suri Rosen.

By the way, @dappercat, your concentration may have an easier time with the standalone short stories in my universe than my full-length novels: Tales from Perach. They range from 900 to 9000 words and 6 of the 7 of them have Jewish MC’s.

[libhobn]

The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay - very thinly-veiled account of life in the waning days of Golden Age Spain, with adventures and political intrigue, starring a Jew, Muslim, and Christian

Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon - A pair of 10th century Jewish mercenaries (who are almost certainly a couple) go on a quest to return the kidnapped prince of Khazaria to his empire.

[oyveyzmir-blog]

(I want to echo the recommendation of The Rabbi’s Cat, and of Shira Glassman’s Mangoverse stories, which are so lovely)

I haven’t read it yet but I’m desperately trying to get my hands on an audiobook of “He, She and It” by Marge Piercy

[lgbtqreads]

None of the books listed under Jewish here are about the Holocaust, and only The Spy With the Red Balloon is set during WWII: https://lgbtqreads.com/representation/religion/

[justinhubbell]

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Once again, thank you everyone for reading, enjoying, and sharing this comic.  Not just sharing in the sense of re-posting this comic, (which you should totally do) but also sharing your stories with me, letting my know how my comics have touched you.  It means so much to me.  Love ya! Stay tuned for more comics! <3

[justinhubbell]

It gives me tremendous joy to see people still reading this comic, and especially when they get something out of it.

Over the years I have faced many ups and downs, just like everyone else. Sometimes it really gets to me how mean people can be to each other. How mean I can be to myself. But for all the Level 1 Trans Fighters out there please know with acceptance, mindfulness, and self compassion I did in fact find my balance. Not a fast process. Basically a complete lifestyle change. Sometimes I lose that balance, sure. But when I choose to present my authentic identity? I’m objectively drop dead gorgeous. Here are a hand full of my looks. You’ll notice none of them are 100% masculine or feminine. Peace be with you. Thank you for reading. Thank you for being you. -J

[eternityentombed]

You deserve to feel comfortable, so don’t push yourself to go at a faster pace. It’ll hurt you more.

[buffjesusgooglesearch]

Reblogging both for stellar comic and wonderful mustache

[darkbookworm13-deactivated20240]

always reblog! I love this comic, so very much. *offers all the kudos* Thank you for this, it continues to help a lot. You look amazing in those lipstick shades, by the way.

[that-butch-deactivated20200725]

Why dont you educate yourself before forming an opinion on bi lesbians? I'm genuinely wondering. It took me a second to understand but if I can, you can.

this has got to be the most insulting ask i’ve ever received because you’re essentially implying that i do not know anything and have put no thought into it. how do you know i haven’t educated myself? how do you know that i haven’t spoken with other lesbians, other trans people, other bi people, and discussed how this label is kind of regressive and harmful?

you want proof? let’s walk through the logic of it right here, right now, together. we have the label bisexual; meaning capable of attraction to more than one gender (bi here being a latin root used in the label to denote ‘more than one’). this is the definition of the label many of my bi friends have told me they use.

now, there are three manners by which i have seen people define the term ‘bisexual lesbian’:

the first one is fairly old, it’s the manner by which transmisogynists have been super shitty to lesbians in relationships with trans women; calling them ‘bi lesbians’ or ‘dick-loving lesbians’ in a pretty straightforward attempt to strip them of their lesbianism and imply that their attraction to trans women makes them bisexual. obviously this is 1. deeply transmisogynistic and 2. not really how gender works. but i’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that this isn’t the definition you want to use, because if you were a garden variety transphobe this anon you’ve sent me would just be some milquetoast jab at my appearance instead of some incoherently high-horsed nonsense.

so let’s go with definition #2: ‘bisexual lesbians’ as a nonbinary-inclusive identity. basically meaning 'bisexual means attraction to more than one gender, and bisexual lesbians are lesbians attracted to women AND nonbinary people.’ which is not like, how nonbinary people work. you can’t fit all nonbinary people into one concrete 'third gender’ because it’s an *umbrella term* that encompasses lots of people, some of whom do in fact identify with 'man’ or 'woman’ in a sense outside of the strict binary (you’ll see this like 'men or man-aligned people dni’ or stuff like that when it comes to nuanced gender terminology). so there are nonbinary men, nonbinary women, bigender people, agender people, and etc. etc. etc. which means that you can’t fit all nonbinary people into one gender category, it’s a term that includes a lot of different relationships to gender.

here’s what i have to say to that: lesbian was already a nonbinary-inclusive identity to the extent that it included nonbinary people *who are okay with lesbian attraction*. there is a long history of nonbinary people within the lesbian community and those who aren’t comfortable with lesbian attraction aren’t going to be much more comfortable just because you slapped the word 'bisexual’ on to it.

like, this isn’t how attraction works! take for, instance, this twink i had a small interaction with years ago at a target once: i’m waiting in line at target, right? and i have my back to the store. and i’m in full 'eyes over the shoulder because i’m a butch in public and america is terrifying’ mode. i notice this twink guy walk by, stop and give me the up-down. and so my natural reaction is to turn toward the man behind me, right? and he sees the front of me and has this look on his face of 'oh shit that’s a woman i just eyed up’ and so he flashes my partner and i a thumbs-up, we have a brief moment of like 'gnc gay people in public hell yeah.’

now did this guy stop and figure out if i was nonbinary or whatever? did he get my pronouns? no! he saw a big back and nice haircut and was down, and when he saw the full picture he readjusted and respectfully bowed out. because, and this is important, when you put the phone down and meet people in the world, sometimes you’re going to be fleetingly attracted to people who won’t reciprocate. and you readjust. you don’t get everyone’s name label and pronouns right out of the gate; people aren’t pokemon. like, sometimes i’ll see nonbinary people who i’m into but when i learn they wouldn’t be comfortable with a lesbian being into them, i readjust. i don’t hysterically tinker with my identity until it includes them so i was Unproblematic All Along, i grow up and move on.

point blank- lesbian attraction is going to include some nonbinary people and not some others, and if you feel the need to fix that you do not understand nonbinary people.

so let’s move on to definition #3, 'bisexual lesbian’ as a term for a bisexual woman/woman-aligned person (did you see what i did there?) who is capable of attraction to more than one gender, but is 'sworn off of’ men or whatever or has a 'preference for women.’ so you’re adding lesbian onto bisexual to like, 'fix’ attraction to men? in this case you’re tacking lesbian onto bisexual in order to be like, i’m bi BUT WAIT i’m with a woman not a man so i’m an Actual Wlw.

we have a term for bisexual wlw who prefer to be with women/women-aligned people. ready for it? it’s bisexual. the term 'bisexual’ doesn’t need fixing and the things you’d try to fix by affixing 'lesbian’ on it are super telling. like, creating this new label isn’t helping. you know what would help? if we didn’t treat bi wlw who are in relationships with men like they’re less wlw than lesbians. if we didn’t make bi wlw feel the need to apologize for their bisexuality. if we didn’t project our insecurities around men onto bi wlw, if we didn’t say 'oh you’re with a man so it serves you right if he’s less good to you than a woman would be’. if we stopped defining bi women by men.

tl;dr: creating a new label isn’t 'fixing’ bisexuality or the way bisexual wlw are treated. we need to treat bi wlw better and stop defining them by men. that’s just biphobia my dude.

[dyketitties]

Femme lesbians anytime they talk to a butch be like: 👀👀

[dyketitties]

Or like: 🥺🥺

[boy-obsesed-barbie]

And it's not fair to be honest with y'all.

[tikkety-tok]

the way they slowly scoot over 😂😭

[uncle-beanbag]

[gaycism]

[droideka-exe]

call me a hatekeeper if you want to but any “femme” that has nothing but contempt for butches is no real femme

femme and butch have existed as two sides of the same coin from the very beginning. there is no femme without butch. the “masculine privilege” you deride is the very thing that gives femme any meaning.

femmes and butches have lived together, protected one another, and loved each other for years and years. to turn your back on your butch sisters is to turn your back on a rich history of lesbian love and resistance. 

any “femme” that hates butches is no femme sister of mine