#lesbian masterdoc

[moonlightsapphic]

Les-Bi Readings

don’t sent me asks, read my (working) bibliography/masterpost on all things sapphic by reputed authors! my recs (quick, punchy & accessible!) marked ⭐️. Crash course on les/bi discourse in pink!

Non-Fiction Books

⭐️ We Walk Alone: Through Lesbos’ Lonely Groves by Ann Aldrich

He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar

⭐️ Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit by Marlon M. Bailey

⭐️ Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

⭐️ Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline Davis

Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Esner

Fem(me): Feminists, Lesbians & Bad Girls edited by Laura Harris & Elizabeth Crocker

⭐️ All About Love by bell hooks

⭐️ Feminism is for Everyone by bell hooks

Bi Any Other Name edited by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaʻahumanu

Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World edited by Robyn Ochs and Sarah E. Rowley

Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion

⭐️ The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader by Joan Nestlé

⭐️ Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution by Paula Rodriguez Rust

Bi: the Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw

Bisexual politics: theories, queries, and visions edited by Naomi Tucker

Fictional Media (classics + contemporary books/shows/film)

This is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H Aceves

⭐️ Imogen, Obviously by Betty Albertalli

Every Step She Takes by Allison Cochrun

⭐️ Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales

⭐️ Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

⭐️ We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib

⭐️ Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

⭐️ Loveless by Alice Oseman

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

⭐️ Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski

Bright Lines by Tanaïs

⭐️ The Bisexual (2018)

The Colour Purple by Alice Walker

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

Video Essays, Podcasts & Documentaries (easy place to start!)

⭐️ Lily Alexandre, Why is Queer Discourse So Toxic?

Matt Bernstein, How Love, Simon’s Author Was Pushed Out of the Closet

Big Think, Berkeley professor explains gender theory | Judith Butler

⭐️ Bisexual Brunch, Pride Special in conversation with veteran LGBTQ rights activist Peter Tatchell

⭐️ elliot sang again, Misogyny against bi women

⭐️ Freddie, I can’t forgive Heartstopper “fans” for what y’all did to Kit Connor …

jessiepaege, Lesbians vs. Bisexuals. Do we THINK the same?

Icaras Key, Lesbian history has always included m-spec identities

⭐️ Leslie Feinberg, Outlaw (1994)

notdefining, We Need to Talk About the Lesbian Masterdoc

⭐️ Ordinary Queer, FEMME: Lesbian History, Identity Politics and Invisibility

Pioneer Works, Who’s Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler and Jack Halberstam in conversation

⭐️Nicholas Black, Biphobic discourse on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok

Seattle Public Library, Schuyler Bailar Presents ‘He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

black and white thinking

biphobia is a real thing, actually

bisexuality + biphobia in pop music culture

⭐️ what are ‘BI-LESBIANS’? (and why does the internet hate them?)

⭐️ ‘straight-passing privilege’ is just biphobia

Ophie Dokie

⭐️ I asked the author of Love, Simon who the target audience really was

⭐️ lowkey, you can (kinda) choose to be a lesbian [article review]

⭐️ Taylor Swift proposal crashouts and the Johnlock Conspiracy [ft Kat Tenbarge]

⭐️ The Boyfriend Backlash of 2025

Out in Bloom

the bi/lesbian beef makes no sense … why aren’t we kissing??

⭐️ what you’re probably getting wrong about compulsory heterosexuality

Queer Collective

⭐️ Why Bisexuality Triggers Lesbian Insecurity

Trash Discourse

4B: the Politics of Exclusion

⭐️ What is A Lesbian?: Bisexual Lesbians and Lesbian History

What is Cheating?

verilybitchie

Comphet vs Compulsory Heterosexuality

⭐️ Bi & Trans History: The Invasion of Lesbianville, Massachusetts

Gay or Bi? The Nuances of Sexual Orientation

A History of the Word “Bisexual”

⭐️ Monosexuality and Bisexuality

⭐️ The “Rampant Transphobia” of Bisexual History

Why Queer TV is Getting Worse

⭐️ Why We Hate Bi Men

Why We Hate Bi Women

Articles, Essays and Resources

Anonymous, Bi-Lesbian Carrd (2023 archive of the original)

Archive of Assorted Bisexual Literature by UnluckyHopper

Bisexual Magazines Carrd (including Anything That Moves and “The Bisexual Manifesto”)

Amber Ault (2016), “Hegemonic Discourse in an Oppositional Community: Lesbian Feminist and Bisexuality”

K. Belmonte & T. R. Holmes (2016), “Outside the LGBTQ ‘safety zone’: Lesbian and bisexual women negotiate sexual identity across multiple ecological contexts”

Bi Stuff, Bisexual Lives (1988)

⭐️ Rebecca Bodenheimer (2022), “What Does Amber Heard’s Defamation Verdict Mean for the Bi Community?”

Jieru Chen et al (2023), “The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey 2016/2017 Report on Victimization by Sexual Identity”

Sabrina Cox et al (2013), “Examination of Social Contact on Binegativity Among Lesbians and Gay Men”

Shiri Eisner, “Monosexism”

Julie E. Hartman (2005), “Another Kind of ‘Chilly Climate’: The Effects of Lesbian Separatism on Bisexual Women's Identity and Community”

Human Rights Campaign (2014), “Supporting and Caring for our Bisexual Youth”

⭐️ femmebis (2019), “The ‘Lesbian-Only Term’ Myth: A Comprehensive Historical Essay on ‘Butch’ and ‘Femme’ ”

M. Reuel Friedman et al (2014), “From Bias to Bisexual Health Disparities: Attitudes Towards Bisexual Men and Women in the United States”

Karen I. Fredriksen-Goldsen et al (2010), “Disparities in Health-Related Quality of Life: A Comparison of Lesbians and Bisexual Women”

⭐️ Judith Halberstam (1998), “Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum”

LGBT Movement Advancement Project (2017), “A Closer Look at Bisexual Transgender People”

J. L. Matsick & J. D. Rubin (2018), “Bisexual prejudice among lesbian and gay people: Examining the roles of gender and perceived sexual orientation”

⭐️ Kravitz Marshall (2021), “Bisexual Women & Dykehood”

Kravitz Marshall (2020), “Why Do People Say Bisexuality Is Transphobic?”

National LGBT Cancer Network, “Bisexuals and Health Risks”

⭐️ nothorses (2022), “ ‘Transandrophobia’ Primer”

Pew Research Center (2025), “The Experience of LGBTQ Americans Today”

⭐️ posi-pan (2022), Direct sources on mspec lesbians/gays dating back to the 1970s

⭐️ Adrienne Rich (1981), "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence"

Nel Jayson Santos & Alisa Craig (2023), “Descriptive or Divisive? A Critical Review of Scholarly Perspectives toward Monosexism”

The San Franscisco Human Rights Comission LGBT Advisory Committee (2018) “Bisexual Invisibility: Impacts and Recommendations”

st-dionysus (2024), “What is Transandrophobia and why is it called that?”

⭐️ Sharon Dale Stone (1996), “Bisexual Women and the ‘Threat’ to Lesbian Space: Or What If All the Lesbians Leave?”

⭐️ Them (2018), “A New Study Explains Why Many Lesbians Are Biased Against Bisexual Women”

Please send me your recs! Happy reading and happy Pride. :)

🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

[carpecardium]

why isn’t there a trans lesbian masterdoc

[customboytoyz]

Excuse my ignorance, what is the lesbian masterdoc?

god i wish i was you. So this was around 2018, peak ace discourse, but right before the porn ban to give you an idea of tumblrs overall maturity/popularity. A (THEN) lesbian wrote a long "how to know if im a lesbian" google doc based on, and I can not stress this enough, entirely her own experiences.

And I swear to god sapphic tumblr passed it around with the grave seriousness of stone butch blues (and to give the author a little bit of grace, i know that wasnt really her intention at first). This got spread to every discord circle with any afab person having a sexuality/gender crisis. Online sapphics loved it so much that recently i heard a friend of mine who is 29 years old had sent it to their friend going through a breakup. In 2025.

you can read a preserved copy here on internet archive and ofc you are welcome to form your own opinion. But it leaves no room to explore anything else other than specifically cisgender lesbianism because that is the perspective it speaks from.

Any chance at bisexuality is explained away by "compulsory heterosexuality". Which i absolutely believe is real. but just. Read this passage in particular and keep in mind that the author later came out as bisexual and engaged to a cisgender man.

This shit was gospel to me for some reason, despite knowing i was bisexual since i was 13. Despite being 16 crying for weeks in HS over boys not loving me back the way i was in love with them. Despite my first relationship at 14 being with a person who (idk what they ID as these days) was very insistent they werent just a girl.

I feel like the popularity of this gave me the stupidest excuse to hide ever. "Deny all male attraction, because you can still be cis if you spin around and say 'comphet' three times in the mirror."

Idk, I dont understand claiming to be a well read lesbian, writing 30 pages of unsourced nothingburger, and not for even a second consider how important it is to consider your own personal gender as a facet of the sexuality crisis youre having.

The literal only time trans women are brought up is to say "maybe youre a lesbian if men you date come out later as trans women". Like ok, way to make trans women coming out about yourself? I dont think any cis men that liked me when i was cis are secretly gay men.

I would say this half assed "Gender Feelings" bit that literally takes up not even an entire page fucked with me the most.

Because it got me in a mindset of "oh im violently upset when men see me as a women because i think theyre seeing me as just some object." But guess what i learned? CIS STRAIGHT WOMEN ALSO FEEL GROSS AROUND MEN. it's called being affected by misogyny. and it isnt because of your sexuality that you feel awful, it's because being seen as an object just SUCKS.

It wasnt until i was in a long term relationship with a woman that i realized i absolutely hated being called a girlfriend or 'wifey' by her too! like oh! because i was not a girl! It felt wrong and grating and disgusting, even though I loved her. And that was really difficult to unpack.

and for fucks sake its "credits" is literally a list of their friends tumblr blogs. not even specific posts? Just the fucking blogs? Like master doc more like an organized collection of someones scattered and complicated personal thoughts after taking an "am i gay?" quiz, rephrased so that anybody can apply it to themselves.

essentially, it was a very very bizarre phenomenon on sapphic tumblr. and the authors engaged to a cis man, and probably jokes about her lesbian phase. read some real queer literature with like. sources and shit.

[imaginesleepingg]

the concept of a new masterdoc but instead of it being completely biphobic it’s just a bunch of resources on how to embrace being sapphic in a heteronormative society and NOT telling someone they’re a lesbian because they like feminine men ❤️‍🩹

[imohars]

Imogen Heaney in association with the lesbian masterdoc (except its season three now and she’s canonically a lesbian)

[h--hannah--h]

fellow queers: i beg of all of you, desperately, to stop promoting the lesbian masterdoc. i have been having full on sex fantasies about men since i was like 11 or 12 but because of the masterdoc ive still been considering myself lesbian until recently because i was supposedly doing this in the “gay way” according to the masterdoc.

like i was literally saying “would fuck a dude, no hetero” from 14 y/o to a little over a month ago

[merkredonn]

I HATE THE LESBIAN MASTERDOC OMG

like bro if you find male celebrities "hot" and obsess over them, you're not a lesbian

yes this also applies to fictional men

[heightjoke]

Does she know its legal now?