used to base my pain scale around how soft my adansey thoughts were but now it's started shifting toward luz and hunter. same exact scale though like to the letter. if the two of them are yelling and throwing things at each other then everything's going Great in my body. if i'm burying them under 15 weighted blankets so they can't physically move away from the other's arms though, uh..... we're......... in trouble.........
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Offline. So many older lesbian spaces were "underground". Lots of the magazines and art and books are still circulating and many of those women are still around. The biggest difference between then and now is that our public sphere is the internet. Entire countries can be omitted. Censorship, down to making a single word illegal, can be carried out with 100% effectiveness, because we do not speak with our mouths but with a "Post" button. It is all so moderated. I find it comparable to the older division of women through houses. We are all in separate boxes thinking "where are the other ones like me?" but we cannot see each other. They still exist. The answer is to leave this false world and seek them out in real life. How to do that requires creativity and resourcefulness. Stickers with a slogan you stand by signed with a secure email address may attract some. Others may be at protests, or in sports. Building your community means risk, work, and time.
unfortunately im talking about a combination of online and offline 🥲 when in the UK, i did make a friend group of like-minded lesbians and it was so great. we’d occasionally go to lesbian events and such but very often it was not lesbian-exclusive and filled with gender-y stuff which is more or less inescapable. we also went to the lesbian strength march and we met women from get the l out back then, before they were as big as they are now. that memory isnt as fond anymore bc it turns out get the l out is a polilez organisation. then in germany, my gf and i went to some radfem events (i could not find a single lesbian event anywhere. there are lesbian organisations but we’ll get to that in a bit) and they were talking about being lesbians. turns out, they’re mainly political lesbians. it makes no sense bc they preach “lesbians don’t like dick!” “lesbians can’t be attracted to men!!” but then actually if u say that and mean it they argue that every woman can be a lesbian. the mainstream lgbt community & lesbian community isnt much better, you’ll find normie lesbians here and there but you’ll also be among many non-lesbians and political lesbians. ive met many lesbians but found no lesbian community. and most lesbians are also pretty into the genderist stuff. so it’s like no matter where i look and go, there isn’t really a place for lesbians to just be among other lesbians. this is not even touching on bahrain where the community is extremely underground, 0 online presence, and u basically find each other through ladies nights or female-only events (when all the bahraini lesbians decide to go out at once) or word of mouth but then when u get to know a lot of them, most have such intense self-hatred that u just end up feeling insecure about being a lesbian as well. or they’re extremely closeted and u have to sneak around. or they’re also very gender-y and can’t talk about anything else.
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