wurig

huge fan of women being happy

[wurig]

wurig

whatever u r is good :)

tagging system explained: posts are filtered by vibe in a medieval court setting

good/ evil jester behaviour: funny/ so stupid it’s funny

the fiendishly clever advisor: external cleverness

the indomitable female community: women supporting women the way women have always supported women

this house believes: something i consider to be a core and important belief

the reprehensible foe: something that stokes fury

the treasury: resources!

the court approves: anything i agree with

wurig originals: self explanatory

judgement pending: i will respond to this in more detail soon

[cendrillonmedousa]

Notable, Present-day, Radical Feminists

As a second wave feminism, we assume that radical feminists are hard, if not impossible, to find in today's world. Here is a list of notable women you can still interact with today.

Chude Pam Allen, co-founder of New York Radical Women

Ti-Grace Atkinson, author of Amazon Odyssey

Kathleen Barry, co-founder of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

Linda Bellos, first Black lesbian member of Spare Rib feminist collective

Julie Bindel, co-founder of Justice for Women

Jenny Brown, author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work

Professor Judith C. Brown, pioneer in the study of lesbian history

Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape

Professor Phyllis Chesler, co-founder of Association for Women in Psychology

D.A. Clarke, known for her development of feminist theory

Nikki Craft, creator of the Andrea Dworkin Online Library, Hustling the Left website, and No Status Quo website

Christine Delphy, co-founder of the French Women's Liberation Movement

Professor Gail Dines, author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality

Melissa Farley, founder and director of Prostitution Research and Education

Marilyn Fyre, author of The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

Carol Hanisch, best known for "the personal is political"

Merle Hoffman, co-founder of the National Abortion Federation

Professor Shelia Jeffreys, author of The Spinster and Her Enemies

Lierre Keith, founder of Women's Liberation Front

Anne Koedt, author of The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm

Marjorie Kramer, editor of Woman and Art Quarterly

Professor Holly Lawford-Smith, author of Gender-Critical Feminism

Dr. Catharine Alice MacKinnon, author of Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case for Sex Discrimination

Robin Morgan, creator of Sisterhood Is anthologies

Dr. Janice G. Raymond, author of The Transsexual Empire

Kathie Sarachild, coiner of term "Sisterhood is Powerful"

Alix Kates Shulman, author of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

Gloria Steinman

Michele Faith Wallace, author of Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

Dr. Marilyn Salzman Webb, co-founder of the first feminist consciousness-raising groups in Chicago and Washington D.C.

Harriet Wistrich, founding director of Centre for Women's Justice

Laura X, led the campaign behind making marital and date rape a crime in over twenty countries

[theoretical-terf]

Most acts of "transphobia" are just a failure to convince TIMs that you see them as women.

Earlier in the TRA movement, a lot of women tried to be more inclusive by labelling things as "for women and people identify as women". It was a genuine attempt to be inclusive, but it wasn't enough for TIMs, because it still made it clear to them that we know the difference between them and women.

It reminds me of that unhinged TIM post ranting about how he hated this womam because she complimented him, but he spiralled in his own head about how she doesn't really see him as a woman and how he hates her, and all women because of it.

All of the things TIMs want are for the purpose of enabling their delusions. It doesn't matter how inclusive women try to be, it won't be enough for them unless it convinces them that other people believe their delusions.

[raddish-world]

Alabama woman sues alleging she gave birth on prison floor as guards watched - raddish.world

[bushpropaganda]

oh my god this is horrific :(((

so she was thrown in jail for taking substances that might harm her fetus due to the overturning of roe v wade, only to be forced to give birth alone on a dirty jail floor??? even worse, female inmates on the cell block were punished for helping deliver the baby, and any staff who tried to help were threatened with being fired from their fucking job???

just goes to show it's never been about protecting fetuses, but about punishing women in the most barbaric ways possible, any way they can.

[butchpeace]

One of the biggest problems I have with Radfems is when they call women who identify as trans “misogynistic”, or dismiss them as though they’re just being stupid.

Do you really think you’re helping anyone?

Story time…

When I was a teenager and first discovered radfem communities - this was before I transitioned - I felt just as alienated by them as I did by conservative women.

Because they didn’t understand me, they didn’t have any experience with how I felt, and they didn’t have any helpful advice for me.

At best, their advice was “learn to love yourself”. At worst, they were actively hateful towards women like me and called us names. Traitor, misogynist, etc.

No one gave me the empathy I needed. No one gave me any actionable steps I could take towards that vague goal of “loving myself”, which felt like an impossible thing to do at the time.

The feelings I was experiencing, and which I had been experiencing for my whole life, needed much more help than that. It needed people who cared and who wanted to understand me.

A big part of why I transitioned was because trans men were the first people who actually understood how I felt and had an answer for me as to how to cope with that.

The answer ended up being wrong of course, but I didn’t know that at the time. When you’re a kid and you’re just looking for someone who understands how you feel? And suddenly you meet all these women who live as men who understand you perfectly, because they’ve felt the same things…

Of course that’s the path you’re going to follow.

Radfems need to be doing better if they want to actually help women who are transitioning. My feeling is that many actually don’t want to help and don’t genuinely care about us.

But for those that do… in order to do better they have to listen to the experiences of women who have been through all of that.

We have to talk about the unique experiences of women who choose to transition in order to actually help the young women who are transitioning now.

If talking to trans identifying women makes you feel like you’re yelling at a wall, consider that maybe it’s not that the person on the other end is dumb - Maybe you’re speaking the wrong language. Maybe you should lower your voice. Maybe you should try to understand her.

Of course it’s not anyone’s job to be our therapists. But when young women are looking for community and empathy, we don’t deserve to be turned away at the door.

Sometimes it feels like masculine women, women who transition, are the only ones who don’t get included in female solidarity.

[thehairiestfeminist]

Let me describe to you what kind of world gender abolitionists actually dream about:

When a child would be born it’s biological sex, being an actual physical reality, would be noticed but not a single assumption regarding the child’s personality would be made based on it.

Growing up, children would be free to chose what toys and clothes they prefer. If they want to play with toy trucks or dolls, it would be fine either way. If they want to dress comfortably or in frilly colorful dresses, it would be fine.

Certain personality traits would not be encouraged in members of one sex and discouraged in the other. Females would be free to be strong, brave and assertive and males would not be shamed for being shy and soft spoken.

No female child would be called a tomboy and no male child would be called a sissy. No kid would ever be bullied for what we in our gendered world call “gender expression”.

When children would reach puberty they would still be free to dress how they want. Females would not be pressured to wear clothes that reveal their bodies and males would not be shamed if they chose to. Everybody would have a free choice of accessories, which would not be categorized as “men’s” or “women’s” but people could should whichever they liked. Or chose to not wear accessories at all if that’s what they are more comfortable with.

Females would not be pressured to keep their bodies slim, soft and hairless. Males would not be pressured to be athletic and muscular. Expectations of femininity and masculinity upon the body would not exist and affect negatively people’s relationship with their own body.

Everyone could choose a career without fearing stigmatization within that particular field because of their biological sex. The most important thing would be competence and not what someone has between their legs.

Domestic work would not be considered “women’s work” and would be shared equally between the sexes.

Biological sex would only be thought about when relevant. And everyone would be free to be themselves without ever having to worry about gender expectations. Nobody would feel the need to repress certain parts of their personality and exaggerate others in order to fit into some gender role that is being forced on them.

Gender abolitionism is not about restricting people’s choices but about giving them greater freedom.

- http://burningax.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/a-gender-free-world-boring/

[gnomebutch]

“I wasn’t gender socialized because I was bullied for being gnc as a child” it’s almost as if that’s one of the most direct examples of gendered socialization

[cannabutch]

every time they say this i remember this vine.

“i am going undercover as a woman to find out what they go through everyday” [video cuts to later] “i discovered that women are called faggot a lot.”

[radredfox]

Not everyone posting pictures of David Tennant for pride month 😭 he's an ally that's great! But please, please please can we not have him be the mascot of the lgbtq community! 😭😭

[jillsteinfuneralcity]

the right: i want a woman to cook and clean and fuck

the left: omg…..girls?????? girls are soooooo soft……and soo good at organizing??? god i love how they organize their closets it’s soo cute…i just…wow…ugh date a girl who’s cute and soft and cooks for you

[quinntheestallion]

The right: blue for boys, pink for girls- that’s the way God intended

The left: I dunno I just feel like…..to me, pink is for the girlies? Like if you really like pink you might be a girl? Like it’s worth exploring your girlhood and feminity if that resonates with your authentic self. And blue?? It gives off a masculine vibe. Like if pink is not your vibe and blue feels right to you, you’re probably just a dude. Go forth my guy.

[lovelycranium]

the right: bitch bitch faggot faggot queer queer

the left: like…. bitch bitch faggot faggot queer queer 🫶

[noblackwomannocry]

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[noblackwomannocry]

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[chanel-stephens45]

Autogynephilia Debunked

[realist-fortheloveofwomen]

OK NO FUCKING WAY THIS HAS TO BE A TROLL LOL

Firstly- that man wrote “whipping girl” which is literally an entire book ABOUT HIS AUTOGYNEPHILIA. Secondly, all the posts he references are think pieces by himself. There’s zero evidence in there, it’s literally just him yapping.

He’s the person you choose to talk about this subject? Zero studies, just him yapping? Okay girl.

[chanel-stephens45]

Wait a minute… I saw your page before!

During one of my spying sessions of the Radblr and TERFblr tags.

😮

[sichorean]

you refer to browsing radblr as "spying"?

Bro it's a free world

[chanel-stephens45]

I know, but it feels wrong, yk.

It’s wrong to be a TERF, and yet I keep crawling back to the tags, seeing all of y’all’s posts like a creep.

I have many trans friends, so it makes me feel ashamed for even thinking about being a TERF.

I’m a TIRF btw.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

What the fuck...

[radfae]

:/

[fathergyn]

radical feminism knows this and seeks to change it. radical feminism is courageous. radical feminism is forward thinking. radical feminism is the next step.

gender ideology is regressive. gender ideology is passive. gender ideology is part of the problem. gender ideology is acquiescence.

[unsentimentaltranslator]

If you have to unwoman yourself in order to leave your normal ass adult human female face and body the way they are, the way men are allowed to do with theirs, or else your community will abandon you, have you considered that your community fucking sucks and that radical feminists aren’t as evil as you’ve been told by *checks notes* the community that will excommunicate you if you don’t either remove your body hair and cover your face or tell everyone that you’re not a woman?

[iwanttolisten]

actually straight up i'm just gonna make my own post here. This is just a 2016-esque anti-"feminazi" take and nothing about what this person is complaining about even makes sense to construe as targeting trans women if they consider themselves female? These women venting through art about misogyny didn't even make any mention of penis or any kind of male anatomy?

Literally might as well say "don't make art about hating men, you might scare people if you don't consider people other than yourself in your personal art, and not all men are bad"

[wurig]

if you think the art of women expressing their anger at the global scale of their mistreatment is shit art then i dont care about your standards of good art

how angry women are at the world is justified. how angry women are at men is justified. wanting to (in a poetic context, likely as an artistic depiction of a vengeance/justice fantasy) tear a man apart, physically exert control, is justified. it’s not actually happening. its a feeling, expressed into art. how it feels for a girl to become a woman is painful, and beautiful, and horrific, and the internal, external, social consequences of that are fascinating and women’s insights into them are worth exploring.

what its like to be female is, and has always been, an experience that has artistic value. a meaningful, beautiful, painful, unfair, special, universal, isolating, terrifying, joyful experience.

why is women’s anger threatening to you? you say there is no nuance: i say you have failed to understand their art. you say their anger is personal, i say your defensiveness is personal. are they writing to you? is it about you? why do you feel attacked? is it to you? at you? for you?

no nuance to you. no emotion to you. anger directed at you. must be so difficult for you. to call yourself a woman, feel yourself to be a woman, and still be so anti-women as to disrespect, misunderstand, discount, write off our pain, our art.

further reading on the subject below:

1. Extract from ‘Body Work’ by Melissa Febos

2. Extract from ‘Our Blood’ by Andrea Dworkin

[noblackwomannocry]

the "those 'harmless' long-suffering lonely pedophiles are actively grooming children on the internet" problem: who does youth sexual liberation benefit?

before I get into this here is a screenshot to grab your attention:

this is from the NAMBLA and LGBT Politics section of The International Lesbian and Gay Association’s Suspension from the United Nations, 1993-1994, by Tyler Carson, currently available on outhistory.org. this digital exhibit details how the International Lesbian and Gay Association was expelled from the UN's Economic and Social Council due to the widespread fallout of right-wing news outlets discovering that the North American Man/Boy Love Association, a pedophile advocacy organisation that sought to abolish age of consent laws, was an active part of the ILGA. do any of these points sound familiar?

in light of isuggestforcefem pedophileposting again: it's purposeful that for all that many Woke Pedophile "youthlib" "advocates" talk about youth liberation and child advocacy in tandem with their defence of pedophiles and pedophilia, and for all they are keen to talk about abuse that takes place within the family structure, they never discuss the global epidemic of child abuse via the internet. they advocate for youth liberation on the internet, they encourage children to interact with them while openly out as pedophiles on the internet, and yet there's nary a peep about how easy it is for pedophiles to gain access to children who they happily abuse on the internet and have since the internet's widespread adoption by consumers, nor is there any mention of the physical and mental toll that this takes on child victims of this abuse.

in this post I talk about Tumblr having such a bad CSEM problem in the 2000s to 2010s pre-pornography ban that Apple took the app off the app store. I was groomed by multiple people on this website at that time, specifically adult Homestuck fans because of course they were lol. prior to me using Tumblr I was also a very active ROBLOX child, something that people tend to assume must be anachronistic given old ROBLOX was nowhere near the global player that it was at the time. I thankfully wasn't groomed on there, but I sure knew a whole lot of other kids who were. child safety on ROBLOX is so poor that it has a dedicated Wikipedia page, a Bloomberg feature, and tens to triple digit numbers of lawsuits about how piss poor it is at implementing measures to prevent child grooming across multiple countries. my IRL friends were sexually harassed and coerced by grown men on platforms like kik, like many, many other children.

every website where children gather becomes a platform fondly remembered for fostering children's connections with each other with a big asterisk of "and also lots of us got groomed on there lol." most of us are aware that the adage of "stranger danger" is generally inaccurate given that most children are abused by someone known to them, be it a family member or family friend, but the internet has introduced an entirely new dynamic to the conversation that every pro-pedophile on this website has been eerily silent about.

this is of course because the fact that pedophiles actively and willingly seek out children to abuse on the internet with shocking regularity flies in the face of the "I'm just a humble no-contact minor-attracted person!" image that these people attempt to project. millions of children are abused over the internet every year. pedophiles solicit CSEM from children in exchange for rewards in games. pedophiles send children sexual videos and images (sound familiar?). pedophiles befriend children and then go on to extort them into providing CSEM of themselves by threatening to expose them and their families.

these people are not actually interested in the liberation of children, sexual or non-sexual. as the screenshot above states: the issue is not about allowing children avenues to explore their sexuality. children already do that individually and amongst themselves, and there are many, many people and organisations working towards safe and healthy sex education for children and young people across the globe.

these people are interested in "youth liberation" as a means of gaining sexual access to children for their own gratification. this is not new. I highly recommend looking into pedophile advocacy groups and movements like the pro-pedophile German "new left" (and experiments like purposefully placing children in adoptive homes with pedophiles), French philosophers' petition to get the age of consent abolished in the 70s, and seriously, as linked above, NAMBLA's presence in the International Lesbian and Gay Association and how it led to the association being booted from the United Nations (and how lesbian feminists were key in both criticising NAMBLA and getting them kicked out). please, please, if you are able and willing, if you can deal with the subject matter, take a look at that NAMBLA link there. because again, from the screenshot above

Feminists were also especially skeptical of NAMBLA’s claim that man/boy love was about children’s liberation. Rather, they argued it was about men’s increased sexual access to children.

almost sounds like a parallel of something happening right now... could it be? that'd be crazy...

no it's not lol.

every single talking point they have about sexual liberation related to children is straight up repackaged NAMBLA talking points. the North American Man/Boy Love Association NAMBLA. the "kicked out of every mainstream gay activist space for supporting the sexual exploitation of children" NAMBLA.

do these sound familiar? it's because people on this website use these points in their posts! the article even highlights how NAMBLA bundled youth liberation points that people would generally find reasonable (e.g. critiques of corporal punishment and familial abuse) with beliefs that served solely to allow adult sexual exploitation of children (e.g. "decriminalizing hustling and commercial sexual relationships", which got them into international recognition in the first place, because efforts against sex tourism and cross-country child sexual exploitation were on the rise!)

these people are operating by a tried-and-tested pedophile playbook that has already failed. but they're trying it again anyway.

NOTE: if you read this post and assume it is me thinking that youth liberation does not exist instead of me criticising people who claim to be advocates for youth liberation but just want to have sexual access to children, here is a link that might help.

[rabiesofficial]

Being gnc as a woman is crazy because you’re literally just standing there doing nothing.

[lesbian-books]

Lesbian Nonfiction

200 books about lesbians and female homosexuality: histories, memoirs, biographies, essays, and more

History

– The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renée Vivien by Karla Jay – Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger – Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850-1780 A.D. by Samar Habib – Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65 by Cameron Duder – Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall by Marie Cartier – Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy – Britannia’s Glory: A History of Twentieth-Century Lesbians by Emily Hamer – Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves – Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich by Claudia Schoppmann – Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement by Marcia M. Gallo – The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China by Tze-Lan D. Sang – Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures by Bonnie Zimmerman – Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture by Laura Doan – Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations by Samar Habib – The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America by Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt – Her Husband Was a Woman!: Women’s Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture by Alison Oram – Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 by Martha Vicinus – A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500 by Rebecca Jennings – The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780 to 1970 by Alison Oram – Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities by Francesca Stella – Lesbian Origins by Susan Cavin – The Lesbian Premodern by Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt – Lesbians in Early Modern Spain by Sherry Velasco – The Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward by D. Merilee Clunis – Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism by Bernadette J. Brooten – Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community Across Canada, 1964-84 by Liz Millward – Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History, 1840-1985 by Lesbian History Group – Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman – Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 by Emma Donoghue – The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England by Valerie Traub – Sakhiyani: Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India by Giti Thadani – Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages by Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn – Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women by Leila J. Rupp – Scotch Verdict by Lillian Faderman – The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 by Susan S. Lanser – Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes by Lisa L. Moore – Spinsters and Lesbians: Independent Womanhood in the United States by Trisha Franzen – Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman – To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America by Lillian Faderman – Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain 1945-71 by Rebecca Jennings – Unnamed Desires: A Sydney Lesbian History by Rebecca Jennings – Women Like Us by Suzanne Neild

Biography and Memoir

– Active Voice The Comic Collection: The Real Life Adventures of an Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist, Activist and Her Friends! by P. Kristen Enos – The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein – Barbara Gittings: Gay Pioneer by Tracy Baim – Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa – Black Bull, Ancestors, and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma by Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde – Black Lesbian in White America by Anita Cornwell – Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu – Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger by Kelly J. Cogswell – Elsa: I Come With My Songs by Elsa Gidlow – Facing the Music: My Story by Jennifer Knapp – Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel – Gluck: 1895-1978 : Her Biography by Diana Souhami – Hear Me OUT!: A Dose of Lesbian Humor for The Whole Human Race by Laura Jimenez – Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash – I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro – In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner – Journey into My Underworld: An Autobiography of a Lesbian Journey by Jo Alexander – Kicking the Habit: A Lesbian Nun Story: An Autobiographical Novel by Jeanne Córdova – Lion Woman’s Legacy: An Armenian-American Memoir by Arlene Voski Avakian – My Butch Career: A Memoir by Esther Newton – My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata – Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer by Chely Wright – My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement by Alix Dobkin – Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Lillian Faderman – Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga – Once Upon a Convent: A Memoir of a Lesbian Nun by Orice Klaas – The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin – Prairie Silence: A Memoir by Melanie Hoffert – Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey by Jackie Kay – Riding Fury Home: A Memoir by Chana Wilson – The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister by Anne Lister – Seriously…I’m Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres – Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia’s Sappho by Diana Lewis Burgin – A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s Only All-Girl Garage by Loretta Smith – Spectacles by Sue Perkins – Spinning by Tillie Walden – Spit and Passion by Cristy C. Road – Straight Walk: A Supermodel’s Journey to Finding Her Truth by Patricia Velásquez – Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation by Karla Jay – The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami – The Truth Is…:My Life in Love and Music by Melissa Etheridge – Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison – A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby – Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi – When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Jeanne Córdova – Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson – A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor – Women Prefer Women by Elula Perrin – You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties by Carol E. Anderson

Culture and Everyday Life

– The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture by Terry Castle – Cats (And Their Dykes): An Anthology by Irene Reti – Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life by Denise Tse-Shang Tang – The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris – Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women’s Music Festivals by Bonnie J. Morris – Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan by Sharon Chalmers – Faces and Phases by Zanele Muholi – Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam – Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening by Irene Reti – Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists by Maria Dolores Costa – Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History by Harmony Hammond – Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet by Esther D. Rothblum – Lesbian Culture: An Anthology: The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present by Julia Penelope – Lesbian Land by Joyce Cheney – Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves and Each Other by JoAnn Loulan – A Lesbian Photo Album: The Lives of Seven Lesbian Feminists by Cathy Cade – Lesbian Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Alison Laurie – Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India by Maya Sharma – The New Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book by Ginny Vida – Out and About: Sydney’s Lesbian Social Scene, 1960s-1980s by Rebecca Jennings – The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader by Joan Nestle – Witches Heal: Lesbian Herbal Self-Sufficiency by Billie Potts – Women in Love: Portraits of Lesbian Mothers & Their Families by Barbara Seyda

Literature and Media

– Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary by Fran Martin – Chinese Lesbian Cinema: Mirror Rubbing, Lala, and Les by Liang Shi – Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Lillian Faderman – Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama by Denise Walen – Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures by Sahar Amer – Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel by Lisa L. Moore – The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica: 1920-1940 by Victoria A. Brownworth – Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identities and Cultural Space by Sally R. Munt – Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue – Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France by Nicole Albert – Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho by Jane McIntosh Snyder – Lesbian Detective Fiction: Woman as Author, Subject and Reader by Phyllis M. Betz – The Lesbian Fantastic by Phyllis M. Betz – The Lesbian in Literature: A Bibliography by Barbara Grier – Lesbian Menace by Sherrie A. Inness – Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965 by Katherine V. Forrest – Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis by Phyllis M. Betz – Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions by Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow – Lesbian Voices from Latin America by Elena M. Martinez – The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall by Terry Castle – New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings by Sally R. Munt – Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition by Rebecca T. Alpert – Out on the Shelves: Lesbian Books Into Libraries by Jane Allen – The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance by Hannah Roche – Performing La Mestiza: Textual Representations of Lesbians of Color and the Negotiation of Identities by Ellen Gil-Gomez – The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman – Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714 by Harriette Andreadis – Sexual Practice/Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism by Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope – Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969 by Jaye Zimet – (Un)Familiar Femininities: Studies in Contemporary Lesbian South Asian Texts by Aneeta Rajendran – Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in the Cinema by Andrea Weiss – What Lesbians Do In Books by Elaine Hobby and Chris White – With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians by Catriona Rueda Esquibel

Feminism and Academia

– All the Rage: Reasserting Radical Lesbian Feminism by Lynne Harne and Elaine Miller – Brazen Hussies: A Herstory of Radical Activism in the Women’s Liberation Movement in Victoria 1970–1979 by Jean Taylor – Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory by Julia Penelope – Country Lesbians: The Story of the WomanShare Collective by Sue Deevy – Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes by Irena Klepfisz – Dykes Loving Dykes: Dyke Separatist Politics for Lesbians Only by Bev Jo – For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology by Sarah Lucia Hoagland – The House That Jill Built: A Lesbian Nation in Formation by Becki Ross – Lesbian Ethics by Sarah Lucia Hoagland – Lesbian Feminism in Turn-of-the-Century Germany by Lillian Faderman and Brigitte Eriksson – The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs by Estelle B. Freedman, Barbara C. Gelpi, and Susan L. Johnson – Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures by Jeffner Allen – Lesbian Philosophy: Explorations by Jeffner Allen – The Lesbian Postmodern by Laura Doan – The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon by Jaime Harker – Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon – Lesbians Ignite!: In Victoria in the 1990s by Jean Taylor – Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom by Beth Mintz and Esther D. Rothblum – Love & Politics: Radical Feminist & Lesbian Theories by Carol Anne Douglas – The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century by Bonnie Zimmerman – Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism by Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love – Separatism and Women’s Community by Dana R. Shugar – Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz: Selected Works by Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz – The Straight Mind: And Other Essays by Monique Wittig – Stroppy Dykes: Radical Lesbian Feminist Activism in Victoria During the 1980s by Jean Taylor – This Is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century by Kris Kleindienst – The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji – Unleashing Feminism: A Critique of Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties by Irene Reti – Volcanoes and Pearl Divers: Essays in Lesbian Feminist Studies by Suzanne Raitt

Anthologies: Lives and Relationships

– Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing by Catherine E. McKinley – Beginnings: Lesbians Talk About the First Time They Met Their Long-Term Partner by Lindsey Elder – Between the Lines: An Anthology by Pacific-Asian Lesbians of Santa Cruz, California by Cristy Chung – Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About by Carla Trujillo – Compañeras: Latina Lesbians: An Anthology by Juanita Ramos – Does Your Mama Know? : An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories by Lisa C. Moore – Dyke Life: From Growing Up to Growing Old, a Celebration of the Lesbian Experience by Karla Jay – The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian Writing from Australia and New Zealand by Cathie Dunsford – Facing the Mirror: Lesbian Writing from India by Ashwini Sukthankar – Finding the Lesbians: Personal Accounts from Around the World by Julia Penelope – First Bloom: Stories of Blossoming Black Lesbian Love by Saydeah E. Howard – Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence by Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan – Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation by Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson – Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience by Carol Lynda Hall – Lesbians Speak Out by Carol Wilson – Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology by Evelyn Torton Beck – The Original Coming Out Stories by Julia Penelope – Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak by Julia Penelope – Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology by Makeda Silvera – Reclaiming the L-Word: Sappho’s Daughters Out in Africa by Alleyn Diesel – Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability by Victoria A. Brownworth and Susan Raffo – Talking Black: African, Caribbean, and Asian Lesbians Speak Out by Valerie Mason-John – They Will Know Me By My Teeth: Stories and Poems of Lesbian Struggle, Celebration, And Survival by Elana Dykewomon – Write from the Heart: Lesbian Healing from Heartache by Anita L. Pace

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