I’m coming out to all my teachers today and honesty. They’re all super nice. My gym teacher even told me I could change in the bathrooms rather than a locker room!
i hope all lesbians with complex identities are having a good day today! youre not any less of a lesbian and certainly not a bad person because your identity is outside of the norm. youre wonderfully unique and deserving of love!
there’s no one right way to be a lesbian. you can be nonbinary and a lesbian. you can be multisexual and a lesbian. you can be ace or aro and a lesbian. you can be all three at once. you can be a male lesbian. you don’t even have to be a woman. if you feel that the lesbian label is what best describes you, then you go for it. we couldn’t be happier to have you.
reminder that gender cant be tidied up into some distinctive “men” and “non-men” binary. you are not truly accepting genderqueer people when you use this sort of categorical framing. bigender people exist. genderfluid people exist. nonbinary people who dont even Know if they fall under “man” or “non-man” exists. and various other sorts of gender identities. by defining lesbian as exclusively “non-men” you are ostracizing so many genderqueer people.
Trans Lesbians Nonbinary Lesbians Asexual Lesbians Aromantic Lesbians Lesbians of Color Older Lesbians Younger Lesbians Butch Lesbians Femme Lesbians Closeted Lesbians Out and Proud Lesbians Christian Lesbians Muslim Lesbians Jewish Lesbians Lesbians of All Faiths
Did you know violet flowers used to be a lesbian symbol?
Often featured in Greek poet Sappho’s writings, violets also made a comeback in the 1927 Broadway play, “The Captive,“ about two lesbians, where one woman sends a bouquet of violets to her lover. There was so much public uproar about the play that protestors and police shut down the final performance in France. But the violet became known as the "lesbian flower,” and supporters of the play would wear them in their lapels, or as a subtle symbol to other women that they were gay.
What little LGBTQ+ “symbols” do you wear today - rainbow shoelaces, lesbian flag-colored phone background? Also…can we make violets A Thing again?
Happy (early) Nov 15th! Remember that Stone Butch Blues is free now and always to read here
Leslie was a communist, a butch lesbian, a nonbinary and transgender activist, and the person who made me who I am today. Consider checking out Stone Butch Blues if you haven’t already Do it for Leslie, and for hir surviving partner, Minnie Bruce Pratt
[ID: A screenshot of a tweet by Minnie Bruce Pratt (@MBpratt) reading: “Nov. 15 marks the 6th anniversary of my beloved Leslie Feinberg’s death. Hir last words were "Remember me as a revolutionary communist.” By hir wishes, hir iconic novel “Stone Butch Blues” is available FREE download & AT-COST ONLY print, at lesliefeinberg.net. Please share!“
This is followed by two images; the first is a photo of Leslie Feinberg from the chest up, and the second is a cropped image of what is presumably the cover of Stone Butch Blues showing the title with Leslie Feinberg’s name underneath. End ID]
Note: This tweet was originally posted on November 12, 2020.
As a kid I often said, “I’m not a girl I’m a tomboy” because that was the only language I had to describe my feelings of floating between the worlds of man and woman.
Now I say “I’m not a woman I’m a butch” with my feet standing firm between worlds and finding a pride and comfort in the community I have chosen as home.
i was a blur flinching at the word “lesbian” spat from my mothers mouth,
10 years and a gender affirming surgery later i found my womanhood on your lips
[ ID: Digital sketched, pencilled colored lightly warm toned art. Two women in a room. One sits on a blue bed. She is tall, thin, light skinned, lightly curling long blonde haired, has stubble. Wears a choker, a necklace with interlocked Venus symbols, black bra with white ribbon, shorts. The other is short, lighter tan, very short cropped light strawberry blonde hair. Much of body is not shown in drawing, unclear what she wears or not.
Tall woman sits on a blue bed, one finger touching with the others hand reached out. In other hand she holds a syringe. Her face is partly covered by her hair, she bends down and smiles. The other is on the ground with one hand on knee and the other hand with a finger out touching the tall woman’s hand. She looks up and smiles at her.
Background is yellow. A poster or window is seen in the back. To the front a shelf top holds what looks like a medicine bottle and some kind of basket.
They are both backlighted by yellow, maybe sunlight. end ID]
(Image description: four images in pink, yellow, and orange shades. The text on the images reads: “Lesbians who prefer gender neutral pronouns are wonderful. Lesbians who prefer neopronouns are wonderful. Lesbians who prefer he/him pronouns are wonderful. Genderqueer and nonbinary lesbians are wonderful.”)
Since this blog is on a “break” and I came across this blessed post, here’s some lesbian positivity from a nonbinary person trying to figure out imps sexuality!! >×<
“That’s just how it is with some lesbian children; they outgrow the names their mommas gave them, grow into something different, someone different from what anyone could have expected of them. Taking a new name is like being born all over again into who they should have been all along.”
![A rectangular page with two images. At the very top are the words "We took different roads...", beneath which are a cluster of pride pins bearing different pride flags. Left to right, top to bottom, those flags are: butch, polyamorous, futch, asexual, trans, sapphic, genderfluid, aromantic, transmasc, nonbinary, transfemme, bi lesbian (new), bi lesbian (original), femme, intersex, achillean. Next is an image of a group of 5 non-white people of varying body types and skin tones who each wear some of the pins from the above cluster on their jackets (their detailed descriptions are given in the next paragraph). Behind the group is the orange-white-pink lesbian flag. Beneath them, at the bottom of the screen are the words "...but found the same home". [end of general description] [clothing description of each person]: From left to right, top to bottom: Person 1 presents wearing a crimson red, sporty-looking jacket. They have light beige skin, bright brown eyes, and short, straight brown hair parted at the middle with reddish dyed bangs hanging to each side. They are waving and wearing the butch, trans, and transfemme pins. Person 2 has smoky grey brown hair that is long at the front as a pair of braids by their ears, but is shaved into an undercut around the rest of their head. Their bangs are wavy, and parts of their hair is dyed a teal green. They have a medium copper like tone with bright orange-brown eyes, are holding up a peace hand gesture, and wearing a salmon crop jacket on which is pinned the genderfluid, achillean, sapphic, and bi lesbian (new design) pins. Person 3 has a rounded chin and fatter neck, and sports facial hair under their nose and jaw. They have a deeply tanned complexion, dark brown eyes, and short choppy blue hair that hangs off to one side and is shaved on the other. Their jacket is orange and wears the intersex, trans, and transmasc pins. Person 4 has voluminous, wavy curly auburn hair and aurburn eyes with a medium beige complexion, darker facial freckles, and square glasses. They have a light peach blazer jacket with the futch, nonbinary, and aromantic pins. Person 5 has a deep brown complexion, medium bown eyes and long hair that has been styled into locks where each lock has been dyed varying saturations of lavender so that some are more slate toned while others are more purple. They wear a soft pink hoodie jacket with the ace, femme, polyam, and original bi lesbian flag pins.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/e9f4cc2487570096516da348b6a964cc/0d1a4db2aacb9fd6-2c/s640x960/a8afdb4bad0a49991399e5a54d4ccfa6d84baa53.png)
