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Lesbian Women of Color Unite!

Violet Collective is a new zine dedicated to the celebration, empowerment, and support of all lesbian women of color.

Many lesbians of color feel that there is no place for us within overwhelmingly white lesbian communities or lesbophobic qu**r communities. Often times even attempting to navigate these spaces can prove to be an isolating and discouraging experience. Violet Collective is a safe space for all lesbians of color to come together and form a community of our own. We hope this zine will serve as an escape from the subtle and overt racism, eurocentric standards of beauty, and continued erasure we face in other aspects of our lives, and even within the lesbian community. Dedicated to the ideals of sisterhood, strength in community, and consciousness raising through open dialogue, Violet Collective will provide an outlet for the joy and pain that comes with being a woman of color and a lesbian. Violet Collective aims to include essays (on race/ethnic communities/what it means to exist in the world as a lesbian), artwork, music and book reviews, and everything in between. Our mission is to give a voice to those who are silenced and told that in order to be accepted they must hide parts of themselves. Our mission is to celebrate what it means to be women of color, what it means to be lesbians, and how we exist when the two intersect. Our zine is still in the planning stage, but soon we will open submissions for posts to be featured on the blog (short essays, art, etc) Be sure to follow and spread the word about this exciting project!

ghibliprotagonist

“I learned from Mary Oliver how attention is a kind of love, how shining your mind’s light on a thing — a grasshopper, a bird, a tree — is a way of showing gratitude. I learned that poems do not need to be ‘difficult’ to be intelligent, that poems can be both inspirational and investigative, that poems can be tender without being soft. I learned from her to own my wonder and to stay open to uncertainty.”

—

Maggie Smith, “Mary Oliver did something rare: She made poetry accessible. That’s not a bad thing,” published in the Washington Post (via mortuarybees)

@douceurs

neverthere12345

Florida Dunkin Donuts Manager hired herself as an employee and pocketed the checks

404chillnotfound

Bruh next level lmao

studyingespresso

i found a 3rd edition copy of Jane Eyre from 1848 at a bookstore that was on a barge in London... is this real life

ourqueertardis

family members: “so…are you seeing anyone?”

me:

misandristabbacchio-remade-deac

can you fucking weirdos not do this shit on posts about homophobia

nobrashfestivity

Jósef Wilkón

larvinya

tepig-guy

long????

joeseph-stallion-deactivated202

fool, that is the embodiment of death

tepig-guy

death incarnate: shows himself to be a black cat, ominous and dreadful

me: hehe flufy worm boy, long man jenkins

dreamquestofunknownkadath

Fashion

woolblossom

[Start ID] Two portrait photos of a pale orange grown chicken modeling a fairly small purple flower crown necklace. [End ID]

4gifs

maruxee

I’M DEAD

prokopetz

Fun fact: if you know your feline body language, you’ll notice that the lynx is deferring to the housecat. As far as these two are concerned, the housecat is the higher-ranking cat.

thecarvingwitch

OH MY GOSH

icarus-in-fl1ght-deactivated202

It’s because the cat is that lynx’s mom

softfairies

spojled

pride month might be over but gf applications are open forever...

wallflowerpetal

Hot take: idgaf who threw the first brick at stonewall anymore. I’m tired of the arguments and I just don’t care. What I do care about is the life of Stormé DeLarverie - specifically, outside the context of stonewall, which was really just a drop in the bucket of the modern gay rights movement.

So here are some facts we should all know about Stormé DeLarverie:

Her name is pronounced stormy de-LAR-ver-ee

She was born to a black mother, who was a servant in the house of her white father, during a time when interracial marriage was illegal

She worked as a drag performer with the Jewel Box Revue, the first integrated touring drag performance - and was the first and only drag king among the group

Not long after the events at stonewall, she became part of the formation of the Stonewall Veteran’s Association. She was very active in the organization and held positions such as Chief of Security and Vice President

Described as a “gay superhero” and the “Rosa Parks of the gay community,” she worked to keep the streets safe and was a longtime defender of lesbians: “Ms. DeLarverie roamed lower Seventh and Eighth Avenues patrolling the sidewalks and checking in at lesbian bars. She was on the lookout for what she called ‘ugliness’: any form of intolerance, bullying or abuse of her ‘baby girls.’”

She also played an important role in the AIDS crisis, raising money for the patients and their families, as well as providing meals to dying patients

At age 93, she received a lifetime achievement award at a Brooklyn Community Pride Center gala alongside Edie Windsor, the plaintiff in the lawsuit that overturned the Defense of Marriage Act

The New York Times calls her “indisputably one of the first and most assertive members of the modern gay rights movement”

Happy pride month to Stormé DeLarverie and to all the lesbians she helped protect.

Sources:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/nyregion/storme-delarverie-early-leader-in-the-gay-rights-movement-dies-at-93.amp.html

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/delarverie-storme-1920-2014/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5933c061e4b062a6ac0ad09e/amp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140530/greenwich-village/hundreds-mourn-nyc-gay-rights-movement-pioneer-at-memorial.amp

clawmarks

Blumen-Ornamentik - Josef Pilters - 1900 - via Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB)

cozybug-deactivated20231208

If there are trees you aren’t alone

hiccupsfreckles

I can’t tell if this is supposed to be encouragement or an ominous warning

unmaiden

“It was witches who developed an extensive understanding of bones and muscles, herbs and drugs, while physicians were still deriving their prognoses from astrology and alchemists were trying to turn lead into gold. So great was the witches’ knowledge that in 1527, Paracelsus, considered the ‘father of modern medicine,’ burned his text on pharmaceuticals, confessing that he ‘had learned from the Sorceress all he knew.’”

— Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses - A History of Women Healers (1973)