Sapphic x Garden

Aarti, 27, dreaming of wlw and plants"I have the entire forest living inside of me and you have carved your initials into every tree" - Pavana

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Bougainvillea

[loumargi]

Hu Jun Di .

[softanti]

new game: put your sexuality in the tags and what sauce you eat chicken nuggets with

im a lesbian and i only trust ranch

[sapphicxgarden]

Hu Jun Di (b. 1962)

Two Women in Snow

Oil on canvas

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BICON

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[maresska]

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U ever juss…wanna hide ur face in someone’s neck and …. Sleep

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Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam: @thefuturekept

[leave-me-colourless]

[difeminawoc]

“Naheed Islam (1998), in her seminal study about South Asian women who love other women, finds that her respondents reject the term lesbian. South Asian-American women who sought lesbian organizations and communities, primarily defined by white lesbians, felt they were marginalized and exoticized because of their differences. Islam’s respondents unanimously and consistently describe that women in saris and shalwar kameezes (loose pants with a long fitted shirt) would never be seen as lesbians in America. The women additionally discuss growing up with breasts, hips, and long hair, and otherwise embodying an aesthetic value system utterly different from white androgyny. Most women felt that their bodies were reinterpreted by white lesbians as manifestations of being femme.”

— Rokasana Badruddoja, “Queer Spaces, Places, and Gender: The Tropologies of Rupa and Ronica” in the National Women’s Studies Association Journal (Summer 2008)

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white gays pipe the fuck down challenge! 

the lack of qpoc movies is astounding. this is a small list but i have searched for these movies from everywhere i could possibly, and watching them is a bigger dilemma. please add onto this list, especially the mlm section. 

[ note that i only exclusively watch wlw movies being a brown nb lesbian so im a bit lacking in the mlm movie recs ]

wlw movies

Rafiki | kenyen wlw

The Watermelon Woman | black lesbian

The Journey  | tamil wlw

Fire | indian wlw

Circumstance |  iranian wlw

 Caramel | lebanese wlw

Pariah | black lesbian

Yes or No & Yes or no 2 : Come Back | thai wlw

Saving face | chinese lesbians

Mosquita Y Mari | mexican wlw

The World Unseen | indian wlw

Margarita With A Straw | indian wlw

Appropriate Behavior | iranian wlw [ in relationship w a white wlw ]

The Secrets | israeli wlw

Spider Lilies | taiwanese wlw

I Can’t Think Straight | brown wlw

The Handmaiden | korean wlw

honorary mentions cause white women :shruggos: : 

thelma [ brown wlw is the love interest ]-itty bitty titty committee [ brown wlw ] - mystère à la tour eiffel [ black wlw ] - a perfect ending [ brown wlw ]

mlm movies

[ note that i haven't seen half of these movies ]

Mondial 2010 | lebanese mlm

Jumping The Broom | black mlm 

Blackbird | black gay

Mixed Kabab | turkish gay

The Last Match | spanish mlm  [ VERY TRIGGERING CONTENT ]

La Mission | latino gay

The Blue Hour | thai mlm

Fifi Howls From Happiness | iranian gay

Philadelphia | black gay

Moonlight | black mlm

[jewfrogs]

here are a few more movies!

The Way He Looks | portuguese mlm

Esteros | latino mlm

Hidden Away | spanish and moroccan mlm

Naz & Maalik | black muslim gay

Lilting | chinese-cambodian mlm

Eat With Me | chinese mlm

Love’s Coming | thai mlm

Spa Night | korean gay

Drifting Flowers | taiwanese lesbians

Schoolgirl Complex | japanese wlw

Miao Miao | chinese wlw

Baka Bukas | filipino wlw

A Girl at My Door | korean wlw [trigger warning for abuse]

The Chinese Botanist’s Daughters | chinese wlw

Being 17 | black mlm [in a relationship with a white mlm]

Akron | latino gay [in a relationship with a white mlm]

Drool | mexican and black wlw [trigger warning for abuse and murder]

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love | black wlw [in a relationship with a white lesbian]

[sunshakes]

some (e) asian ones:

Our Love Story | korean wlw

Blue Gate Crossing | taiwanese wlw

Butterfly | chinese wlw

Topless | japanese wlw

Kakera: A Piece of Our Life | japanese wlw

Murmur of Youth | taiwanese wlw

Love My Life | japanese wlw

Girl’s Blood | japanese wlw

Helter Skelter | japanese wlw

note that i’ve only seen our love story so i can’t attest to the quality (or lack thereof) of any of these

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EK LADKI KO DEKHA TOH AISA LAGA

[sapphicxgarden]

Not a movie but the web series, “The ‘Other’ Love Story”.

[queensofhighgarden]

Girls loving girls in the same-sex ALL LOVE IS EQUAL photography series by Braden Summers 

[supernatasha]

Lovers adorn and admire one another (Utsav 1984)

[desbianherstory]

“Utsav belongs to the genre of courtesan films that plays on the nostalgia for an ancient erotic Indian past. The narrative follows Vasantsena (played by Bollywood icon Rekha), a fourth-century prostitute, as she falls in love with a young Brahmin merchant named Charudutt. Halfway through the film, Charudutt is temporarily shunted out of the narrative by a growing friendship between Vasantsena and his wife Aditi. In a telling scene, Vasantsena and Aditi sing to each other after exchanging clothes and jewelry. This act of making oneself desirable, of dressing and undressing, donning and discarding saris and jewelry in particular, is a sexually loaded trope in popular Indian cinema, having connotations of wedding nights and signifying a prelude to heterosexual sex. Utsav reworks the typical love triangle of popular film where two women compete for the man’s attention; here, it is Charudutt who is sidelined while the two women play erotically together. Interestingly, some feminist analyses of the film have critiqued this scene as merely ‘‘playing out the ultimate male fantasy,’’ whereby female bonding between the wife and the courtesan enable the man to ‘‘move without guilt between a nurturing wife and a glamourous mistress.’’ Clearly such an interpretation misses the more nuanced eroticism between the two women that a queer reading makes apparent. A queer reading might also allow for the possibility of triangulated desire that does not solidify into ‘‘lesbian’’ or ‘‘heterosexual,’’ but rather opens up a third space where both hetero- and homoerotic relations coexist simultaneously. The relation between the two women also hints at the histories of female homoerotic relations that mark the space of the tawai’if (courtesan) household, as Veena Talwar Oldenburg’s ethnography of courtesans in 1970s Lucknow, North India, documents.”

—Gayatri Gopinath, Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures

[tierdropp]

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I feel like nothing on YouTube will ever compare to this woman’s videos. She makes living the dream look so effortless!

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