Well-Adjusted Queer Kids

imagining it's fine

[lesbianherstorian]

an advertisement drawn by alison bechdel in the newsletter of the atlanta lesbian feminist alliance vol. 16 no. 3, march 1988

[lesbomatriarchy]

*writes I LIKE GIRLS on every other page of my journals so future historians don’t try to insist that I’m straight”

[penis-siz3-average]

Future straight Historians: “we see several examples of her prioritizing a sisterly bond with the women around her, for example on page 12 she says ‘I like girls’ and throughout the text she references loving women and preferring their company. This is not to say she prioritized above her romantic relationships because on page 78 she mentions talking to a man one time in her life. It’s hard to know just how much she valued her sisterly bond with women due to this one reference of men and the ambiguity of early 21st century slang. For example on page 12 when she said she liked women, the passage continues ’…in a lesbian way. I want to kiss girls, they are so pretty, I’m so gay.’ Now it’s difficult to understand just what that sentence means. We know that in the early 21st century kissing on the cheek in greeting had gone out of vogue but the word gay, a word with an archaic meaning of happiness gives the contextual clues that perhaps she is references that old fashioned practice.

Going back to the nameless man that is mentioned once on page 78 for one sentance…”

[aisandetsarepeopletoo-deactivat]

“Now, given that she wrote on page 12, ‘Just to be clear: I’m sexually and romantically attracted to women exclusively,’ one may be tempted to read this literally, but we can’t rule out sarcasm.”

[crazy-pages]

It may seem like @vilesbian is joking, but she really isn’t. 

[blaruto]

[queensizeddonger]

@commie-saskia

[ayellowbirds]

Confirmed:

[hedidittooem-deactivated2018030]

Unconfirmed. It’s a heterosexual song 100%

[obeyev1l]

I wrote it and I’m gay as hell lmao

[doodlepede-deactivated20180902]

how about maybe

the song is for anyone

because we’ve all been there, wanting someone who’s with or wanting someone else

[obeyev1l]

No…. I wrote it… it’s for The Gays™️

[slogthor]

[zagreus]

one tectonic plate approaching another

“so are you a top or a bottom?”

[zagreus]

two tops? you get a mountain. two bottoms? VALLEY BRO

[zagreus]

i don’t know anything about geology

[zagreus]

[asymbina]

Are you (Mg,Fe2+)2(Mg,Fe2+)5Si8O22(OH)2?

[zagreus]

I had to google that and i swear to fuck I will kill you

[queensofthequeer]

I don’t know what I expected….

[queerasfact]

In 1941, Manfred Lewin (left), a young Jewish man living in Nazi Berlin, made a small book of poems and pictures. He gave this book to his boyfriend, Gad Beck (right), as they waited out an air raid together.

Today, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a beautiful online exhibit where you can view this book in its entirety, along with translations and additional information. It’s a wonderful little piece of queer history, and I encourage you all to check it out here.

[wlwellbutrin]

i guess one thing that bothers me is aces saying that learning the term asexual gave them a huge sense of relief and therefore they understand the experience of having a marginalized sexuality, because…. i knew the term “lesbian” for a long time. i knew it because when i was 10 kids in my class threw it at an unpopular girl and it was an accusation, and i knew it because that’s what everybody called the gym teacher with short hair when they were saying she shouldn’t be in the locker room. i knew it was a bad thing, and finally admitting i was one gave me no instant relief. it felt like resigning myself to something. idk, visibility is a double-edged sword. sure, people know that gay men and lesbians exist… but they also know they hate us.

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

This made my day!

A group of the TOP African-American and Latina strippers in New York City have gone ON STRIKE. The dancers are claiming that they will NOT return to work until clubs give them EQUAL TREATMENT with bartenders.

According to the DE FACTO LEADER of the NYC Stripper Strike – a dancer named Gizelle – bartenders get preferential treatment at NYC clubs. And the drink pourers often make MORE money than the dancers – even though they NEVER have to take off their clothes.

#nycstripperstrike #sexwork

https://www.google.com/amp/mtonews.com/41193-2-nyc-stripperstrike-wars/amp/

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

This has been true for a long time, but it’s coming at a good time, as Massachusetts and other states try to increase penalties for any positive people who do any sort of sexual activity regardless of odds.

https://www.hivplusmag.com/undetectable/2017/9/27/breaking-cdc-officially-recognizes-undetectableuntransmittable-hiv-prevention

[anneboyer]

Activist Charlotte Haley created the first ribbon for breast cancer in 1990, and when the Estee Lauder corporation approached her for a marketing partnership, she refused to help them profit from this disease.  Despite her refusal, Estee Lauder altered the color and used her idea as a marketing campaign, generating millions in profit for a corporation that sells carcinogenic products. 

For more on the history of the pink ribbon hoax and the capitalist etiology of breast cancer, watch Pink Ribbons Inc. 

[raitoskitchen]

My submission for Vol. 3 of the Lilies Anthology: Not Her Biggest Fan! 🌸 A short story about a celebrity and her makeup artist. Hope you like :^)c

The Lilies Anthology is a women’s romance magazine that features original art and comics focusing on lesbian romance!! This volume’s theme was silence! (Meaning no text/written language)

Click here to get your very own copy of Vol. 3! 200+ pages and 23 artists! 

[liliesanthology]

Thank you again for creating and submitting this amazingly beautiful comic! We’re really glad to have you with us.

[thehausghosts]

is 3 fingers too much

not at all! most people have 10 :)

[tashabilities]

DO NOT GIVE MONEY TO THE RED CROSS.

www.mariafund.org goes directly to the front lines in Puerto Rico,

And http://www.topos.mx/ gets money into the right hands in Mexico. 

[heavyweightheart]

beauty tips that say “you don’t need to buy x, y, and z products to avoid aging skin, you just need to do x, y, and z behaviors” couldn’t miss the point harder. like true i don’t have to buy some overpriced products but did u know that aging is actually fine?? as well as unavoidable?? and women are told we’re not supposed to let it happen but guess what time marches inexorably on for all of us mortal creatures and your face gets wrinkly 

[pearlsasinger-deactivated202602]

this is literally the only shirt I want to wear ever again

[quick-nip]

Testosterone and the FTM Singing Voice

The loss of singing ability on Testosterone is not inevitable, and there are ways to ease the transition of the FTM singing voice. Find out here!

I was in a mood about my voice but I found this so I feel a lil better in that “well maybe in two years it’ll settle better” kind of way 🙃

[scissortailedsaint]

a collections of links to readings on asian-american gay and lesbian history

“Asian Lesbians in San Francisco: Struggles to Create a Safe Space, 1970s-1980s,” Trinity A. Ordona, in Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology, 2003 [starts on p. 319]

“Tomboy, Dyke, Lezzie, and Bi: Filipina Lesbian and Bisexual Women Speak Out,” Christine T. Lipat, Trinity A. Ordona, Cianna Pamintuan Steward, and Mary Ann Ubaldo, in Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory (2005)

“Slicing Silence: Asian Progressives Come Out,” Daniel C. Tsang, in Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment, 2001

“Sexuality, Identity, and the Uses of History,” Nayan Shah, in Q & A: Queer in Asian American, 1998 [starts on p. 141]

“Subverting Seductions,” Gupta, Unruly Immigrants, 2007 [starts on p. 159]

“Queer Asian American Historiography,” Amy Sueyoshi, in The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History, 2016 [contains discussion of csa]

“Miss Morning Glory: Orientalism and Misogyny in the Queer Writings of Yone Noguchi,” Amy Sueyoshi, in Amerasia Journal, 2011

“Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American Activism in Queer History,” Amy Sueyoshi, in LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, 2016

“Looking for Jiro Onuma: A Queer Meditation on the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II,“ Tina Takemoto, in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2014

”Gay Asian Community Oral History Project“ (abstracts only)