cowbutch

*+.21, latino .+* ♡i love my femme♡

[sunkissedbutch]

about me!!

✦ ☆ ⋆ ⭒21 y/o butch lesbian, they/them⭒ ⋆ ☆ ✦

✿❀✧ @amarettofemme is my pretty girl✧❀✿

♡☙transmasc and worshipper of the sun❧♡

⃰⭑✸ trans safe space always, 18+ pls!✸⋆⃰

꧁soy colombiano y también hablo español, hola a mis latinos!꧂

[heavensghost]

‘Love is an organic thing. It rots and softens.’

Words by Clementine Von Radics

[herapp]

iykyk

[cowboy-heart]

'BUTCH MANIFESTO'

inspired by 'FEMME SHARK MANIFESTO' by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

(ID under cut)

Ko-Fi (Commissions Open!)

[ID: an original poem titled 'BUTCH MANIFESTO'. the stanzas are all on the left side of the page and lineated, except for the first line, and last stanza. Poem begins:

Listen up! Butches hold it down! We don’t spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes and black and white tuxes – we shop off the charity shop rack, hand-me-downs from our bois, our men, our women. Butch is not a glamour word - Butch is not for the white collars in their 9-5 and their office parties, Butch is not for the woman in a police uniform with short cropped hair, Butch is not for the masc who looks down on our femmes, Butch is not for the dumbass white people who call themselves stud, like our people haven’t taken enough from black lesbians, Butch is not for the politician or the soldier, it’s for those of us who get shit done and don’t throw anyone under the bus; who stand between our loved ones and the white-knuckled fist; it’s for the people who take a breath of relief when they get home and get to lay their head on the shoulder of their baby and say, it’s hard, and I need you right now; it’s for those of us with hard-soled feet, worn by hours of standing, just so people can buy some useless shit on a Sunday. Butch is for the primary school teachers, the neighbour keeping your package safe, the hairstylist, the barber, the youth worker, the locked up, the sectioned, the evicted, the boy on the dole. Butches hold each other up, Butches stand up for communities, no matter how different we might be.

Butches stand up for Butches, because only we know the shit we face, we don’t argue over what butch looks like for someone - their struggle doesn’t counteract ours. We’re brothers, sisters, siblings, lovers, mentors, we don’t fight over femmes or fight each other. We help up our siblings who can’t hold themselves up and shouldn’t have to.

Butch is recognising our hurt, our pain, and making sure nobody has to go through that, in the very least not alone. Butch is not reproducing that hurt, butch isn’t the transfem exclusion, the toxicity, it’s driving our girls and boys to the abortion clinic, it’s holding your femme’s hair back over the toilet bowl, it’s telling your darlin’ to take a deep breath, before you poke the needle into her thigh, it’s holding back on punching the catcaller because you know it’ll put your lover in more danger, it’s fishing in your closet for an old, dusty dress for your questioning girl, it’s never calling the cops, it’s carrying the Narcan, it’s gathering the funds for bail, it’s tipping the waiter, it’s kissing the bruised chin of a fellow butch who’s built like a brick shithouse.

Butch is not all muscle, able-bodied, white Butch is not all skinny and androgynous Butch is care Butch is NURTURE. Butch is a cane and an unsteady step Butch is putting down the ramp Butch is wheeling up it Butch is addict Butch is straight-edge Butch is diaspora Butch is desi Butch is antiracist Butch is socialist Butch is punk Butch is black Butch is brown Butch is fat Butch is fat-loving Butch is mental illness Butch is antipsych Butch is autism Butch is trans Butch is anger Butch is tears Butch is grief Butch is the old bull Butch is the closeted kid in a dress Butch is the baby dyke wearing a rainbow flag cape Butch is smile lines Butch is crinkled eyes Butch is crying in your friend’s beat-up car Butch is foetal position Butch is pink Butch is motherhood Butch is fatherhood Butch is cat-dad Butch is fucking Butch is getting fucked Butch is stone Butch is bashful Butch is humble Butch is cocky Butch is proud Butch is single Butch is uneducated Butch is poet Butch is poetry Butch is council estate Butch is gentleness Butch is bones and spit and the soft curve of our lower backs the clenched jaw under a double chin the hard-eyes that any femme can see right through the estradiol the testosterone the carabiner clink the thick hands the cellulite the bloody pads the tampon string the mood swings the sagging tits the top surgery scars the swinging cock the hairy pussy the protruding t-dick the leather harness.

Butch is eternity Butch is sewn into the fabric of atoms Butch is love and solidarity Butch is never leaving anyone behind and never selling anyone out.

End poem. In the bottom right corner, the poet is signed as 'Ren H.' End ID].

[sunkissedbutch]

a simple butch who also loves pink (my favorite color is orange but i love pink decor lolol)

[sunkissedbutch]

also is it even murder when corrupt CEOs shouldn’t even be considered people

[sunkissedbutch]

the people who are upset about the ceo being killed are the same people who have no media literacy whatsoever

[dirhwangdaseul]

@saudadiste7: Very very scary that Neely's sickle cell trait was used by Penny's defense that he would have died anyway, unclear if the trait was even expressed, if you have "the wrong genes" they can straight up kill you and say it was God's will. I'm late for work, this floored me

@internetuserf12: Daniel Penny’s murder of Jordan Neely was justified on the basis that Jordan Neely had a pre-existing health condition(sickle cell). Please take a moment to comprehend(and research) how the U.S. legal system codifies eugenics.

This isn’t just eugenics. It’s vigilante eugenics backed by the courts. “Mr. Penny’s lawyers suggested that Mr. Neely had died because of a toxic combination of his synthetic marijuana use, sickle cell trait and mental illness.”

link to the article in the tweet.

It must be mentioned that the U.S. has a very long legal history of openly using eugenics, specifically, to covertly target Black folks, specifically. Please, consider reading the incredible works of Dorothy Roberts on the subject.

@vague-humanoid

[dirhwangdaseul]

@cygnahime's tags

and this tweet:

i found different articles sort of confirming it, in the almost the exact same wording they cite actually three things as contributing factors to his death

An autopsy by the city’s medical examiner’s office found that Garner died as a result of compression of the neck and body, and cited his history of asthma, heart disease, and obesity as contributing factors. The office ruled the death a homicide, which simply means the killing of one person by another. The question that the grand jury faced was whether this was a lawful killing. After its decision was announced, Pantaleo issued a statement in which he said, “I became a police officer to help people and to protect those who can’t protect themselves. It is never my intention to harm anyone and I feel very bad about the death of Mr. Garner.”

the new yorker 2014

i must believe it seems it is what convinced the jury it wasn't an unlawful killing and rather a tragedy where the police could not be at fault because how could they possibly know? it doesn't matter that force wasn't even needed, what matters is that the officer had a right to use it, what was contested was if he was at fault for that force killing someone who couldn't withstand it, they concluded eric garner was at fault for his own death, the right to violence is not only protected, any excess is simply seen as natural to the order of things because he was had three conditions predisposing his death.

[sunkissedbutch]

would moving to brooklyn be like having having tumblr mutuals irl

[tentacletherapist]

new drug called girlfriend laughter just hit the streets one hit and your feel your soul blossom into ten million flowers

[sunkissedbutch]

mutuals send me asks!! 💫

[sunkissedbutch]

mitskiiiii mitski be nice to me pls why did you ever release this

[whatevergreen]

[deglorath]

Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954- ) •

Political activist and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 24, 1954. Born Wesley Cook, he took the n

[lovertm]

"fat is not a dirty word" badges by BryonyMayArt

[medusadyke]

being romantically or sexually involved with femmes is not a prerequisite for butchness but if you can't treat a femme with respect you are not butch. you're masc.

[sunkissedbutch]

hii this is a little poem kind of in the format of a children’s book that i wrote for an open mic night! it’s meant to be silly and unserious lol so be nice to me

my mom is butch

every kid in my first grade class has a mom and dad but I think I’m one of the lucky ones because my mom is butch

at the end of the school day, I can hear my mom is walking down the hallway by the jingling of the keys on her carabiner

we get in her subaru but she calls it Jess; the main character from her favorite book

on the ride home I ask mom how she met mommy and she tells me something about a cubbyhole*, I tell her I have one of those in my classroom and she laughs. I can’t believe mom and mommy have been together for so long.

sometimes my aunts and uncles come to visit, and even though they don’t look like mom they all dress like her have, fun short haircuts and smell like cologne.

I love my aunts and uncles because they helped my mom build the treehouse in the backyard for my birthday.

if you ask me what butch means, I would say it means smart, strong and unique while being loving and caring because that’s what my mom is

my mom is butch

*name of lesbian bar in brooklyn!

[suisrenaissance]

at this point in my lesbian life I just do not have time for people who think yearning and hand holding is the pinnacle of lesbian experiences