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Happy international lesbian day to the recently discovered and newly out lesbians!
Happy international lesbian day to lesbians who live in areas with small lesbian communities.
Happy international lesbian day to the trans and GNC lesbians!
Happy international lesbian day to the butchfemme community!
Happy international lesbian day to the BIPOC lesbians!
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY
Burnout, pothead Shaggy Butch + Nerdy, loser lesbian Velma Femme
Fish Flag
Original Flag, Inspiration, and Palette by @estrogenism (Thank you for the permission to edit this flag!)
What does Fish mean?
Fish is a black exclusive term for a femme lesbian. This label was first recorded as a counterpart the label 'Stud' in a Masters of Arts thesis titled, 'A Study of a Public Lesbian Community' by Ethel Sawyer. Black masculinity is to Stud as Black femininity is to Fish.
The Flag: Symbols and Colors
School of Black Fish: In the original flag I found on my dash, estrogenism uses an image of a tropical fish to represent the body diversity among black femmes. I decided to go with a school of fish to represent the community among black femmes. Initially, I wanted the school to look like a crescent moon to represent femininity further, but I wasn't fuckin' with it.
Colors:
The darkest purple: Womanism (a feminist school of thought centered around the black experience)
2nd darkest purple: Black sapphicism
2nd lightest purple: Black sapphic history
Lightest purple: Unity between all fish (trans, cis, intersex, aspec, arospec etc)
Lightest pink: Subversion of femininity
2nd Lightest Pink: Vulnerability (????)
Orangey-Pink: Persistence
Red: Love
Recommended Reading
Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls (Edited by Laura Harris and Elizabeth Crocker) [There are two relevant segments. Fish Tales and Fish Pond]
A Public Study of a Lesbian Community by Ethel Sawyer (This study was done by a heterosexual woman. Due to the time it is from, harmful stereotypes of both studs and fish are portrayed in this thesis. These misconceptions are incredibly dated.)
Note: Based on the reading that I have done (Including the original thesis itself), some bisexual women were involved in the lesbian bar culture and identified with the label Fish. Out of the 7 fish interviewed by Sawyer, 2 out of 7 (28%) enjoyed sex with men. That being said I don’t mind or care if black bisexual femmes use this flag. But please understand the difference between presenting femininely and femme culture within the sapphic context (specifically butchfemme/studfemme/stud-fish community) before using this label.
A little tidbit of knowledge for all the black sapphics who may come across my blog
Source: Dagger: On Butch Women ( Edited by Lily Burana, Roxxie and Linnea Due )
Passage: The Myth and Tradition of the Black Bulldagger by SDiane A Bogus (pg 29-36 in the physical copy, pgs 30-37 on the pdf)
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NONSAPPHICS AND MINORS DNI
“As for other dykes, I enjoy my share of appreciation for fabulous form and sense of fat drag. Thats right, I said fat drag. I like to dress in a way that plays with what a fat girl is and isn’t supposed to wear. This includes dresses with huge horizontal stripes and tight, brightly colored cardigans that strain to keep one button done up. There is a particular niche of dykes who dig this kind of look and we share a sort of common understanding about performing our bodies in subversive ways. To others who are more invested in traditional standards of beauty and more of a beige clothing landscape, I’m sure that I’m either invisible or gross.”
Fat Activist Allyson Mitchell
Source: ‘Big Fat Femmes: Squeezing a lot of into One Pair of Control Top Nylons’ by Abi Slone and Allyson Mitchell from Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity Edited by Chloë Brushwood Rose & Anna Camilleri
