keep passing the open windows

"So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them."

[eloylannoo]

CATWALK

[enchantedbook]

Where the Wild Creatures Are… Maurice Sendak

[forestgreenlesbian]

Crossroads

Kevin Specht

48 x 60

Acrylic on canvas

[sfmuniphotos]

[fishingscam]

that quote like “god gave us transness for the same reason he made grapes but not wine; yeast but no loaves — so we may partake in the divine act of creation”

[genderkoolaid]

- Julian K. Jarboe, quoted in Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery

[bonefarm]

Nobody gives Bloom County enough credit

[pleasebutch]

oldie butches

[sonnywortzik]

“Trans women are willful women; women who have to insist on being women, who have to keep insisting, again and again, often in the face of violent and repeated acts of misgendering. Any feminists who do not stand up, who do not wave their arms to protest against this misgendering, have become straightening rods.”

— Sara Ahmed, “Living a Lesbian Life”

[caainhurst]

Those who have to insist on being women are willful women, and the arm becomes your resource, something that can lend its hand in a battle to be. Trans women are willful women; women who have to insist on being women, who have to keep insisting, again and again, often in the face of violent and repeated acts of misgendering. Any feminists who do not stand up, who do not wave their arms to protest against this misgendering, have become straightening rods. When I ask for a revival of the militancy of the figure of the lesbian feminist I am imagining lesbian feminism as in a fundamental and necessary alliance with transfeminism. Transfeminism has also brought feminism back to life. And can I add here that an anti-trans stance is an anti-feminist stance; it is against the feminist project of creating worlds to support those for whom gender fatalism (boys will be boys, girls will be girls) is fatal; a sentencing to death. We have to hear that fatalism as punishment and instruction: it is the story of the rod, of how those who have wayward wills or who will waywardly (boys who will not be boys, girls who will not be girls) are beaten. We will not be beaten. We need to drown these anti-trans voices out by raising the sound of our own. Our voices need to become our arms; rise up; rise up.

[lesbianherstorian]

butch criminals “johnny” and “scotty” who drew national coverage for their car theft, discovered after being picked up for lacking driver’s licenses. article from the arizona republic, august 1949

[skullforbrains]

[yesterdaysprint]

Oakland Tribune, California, September 18, 1935

[enchantedbook]

Three Black Cats by Maud Lewis, 1955

[razorgirlpenis]

we need personally tailored hormone cocktails. if u want estrogen curves a non functional dick and a flat chest u should be able to get that. if u want huge tits hard cock huge loads we should promote that. when i’m president we’ll kill all real estate agents in the street like dogs.

[colonellickburger]

Dave Glass, Western Addition district, San Francisco, 1988

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

San Francisco, circa 1960

[enchantedbook]

Three Black Cats by Maud Lewis, 1955

[yodoubler]

Street flix.