#Read Stone Butch Blues

[st-dionysus]

Beating every cisbian over the head with a copy of Stone Butch Blues and Sons of the Movement.

#saint speaks #low key a vent #Read Stone Butch Blues #but also #Read Sons of the Movement: FTMs risking incoherence #reading recs

[gayestcowboy]

someone in my replies calling stone butch blues lesbophobic. how embarrassing is that

#what the hell kind of mindset is that and are you sure you’re happy with it???? #go outside take a walk in nature #read stone butch blues #yeehaws

[cock-holliday]

Someone in my notes being like “I can understand twinks being mistaken for lesbians but I can’t really imagine butches being mistaken for men” and arguing masc folks have a bigger chasm between men and women than femme men and women.

Putting aside that many butches are men or are also men, tell me you’ve never met a bulldagger in your life without saying you’ve never met a bulldagger in your life.

Anyway shout out to every diesel dyke and fuckboy dyke and sporty dyke and home depot construction ass dyke and trans dyke in either direction who only ever gets “sir”d whether that’s what they want or not.

Mascs I’m so sorry people don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about </3

#Also as good a time as any to remind people to read or even fucking look at the cover of stone butch blues and then try again #LJsm

[read-alert]

This does come with the caveat that I can't quite remember if the characters in How to Find a Princess, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, and Chain-Gang All-Stars identity specifically as lesbians or not, but they are all sapphic. Full titles under the cut!

EDIT: Apparently Alice Walker is a big proponent of a famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, David Icke, so be aware of that when considering The Color Purple

Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! 📚📖🏳️‍🌈

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole

Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

#lesbian #lesbian reads #lesbian books #lesbian lit #queer books #queer reads #queer lit #lesbian visibility week #bookblr #hijab butch blues #in the dream house #how to find a princess #cantoras #the color purple #stone butch blues #funeral songs for dying girls #chain gang all stars

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#stone butch blues #leslie feinberg #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[stackslip]

lots of really good criticisms about sbb and dtwof coming out on the dashboard which are all great to see, but honestly i'd feel hypocritical for reblogging them because it would feel like going SEE I TOLD YOU MY HATE FOR THEM WAS JUSTIFIED when my distaste for these works didn't have anything to do with the actual good criticism here on my dash. no, my distaste for them has always been primarily driven by the behaviours of the people who tend to uphold stone butch blues and dykes to watch out for as The Two Seminal Lesbian Works That Every Dyke Must Aspire To Or Else, when these same people have always tended to minimize the prevalence of transmisogyny and whorephobia in lesbian communities while wailing that it's lesbopobic to even imply that this might be an issue, while simultaneously swearing by the works of transmisogynists and whorephobes such as rich/dworkin/mckinnon. also participating in transmisogynistic whisper campaigns (and throwing away trans girls the moment they become a bit of an inconvenience or feel too "male" to them), backing deeply reactionary movements and tendencies, and treating bi women like the dredges of the deep lmao

#again for years i did not wish to id as a lesbian specifically bc of these people! #and i was told it was lesbophobic to even say so--after all sbb and dtwof both have trans characters! #which means that transfems have ALWAYS been accepted by lesbians (what a way to phrase that btw) and it's ahistorical to say anything else #so how dare you even imply there might be a transmisogyny and whorephobia issue. read stone butch blues. #eli talks

[emergingghost]

get callous stay tender.

stone butch blues - leslie feinberg // relative fiction - julien baker // favor - julien baker // stay down - boygenius

#read that one line and went AAAH #just started reading stone butch blues but i sense ill find many more things along the way #wanted to wait and make this a longer post with more variety but just had to post this asap #julien baker #boygenius #stone butch blues #leslie feinberg #web weaving #tender

[rebellum]

"Masculinity is always rewarded and that's why it's associated with privilege, which is why trans mascs have privilege"

Oh yeah no sure that makes sense. Like, that's why you only ever see butch women in power.

And why butches and trans men have SUCH low sexual assault rates

Image description:

A bar graph labelled Figure 15.17: Lifetime sexual assault among transgender men: RACE/ETHNICITY (%)

Overall (all participants): 47%

American Indian: 71%

Asian: 42%

Black: 51%

Latino: 48%

Middle Eastern: 67%

Multiracial: 58%

White: 52%

[USTS]

Image description:

A bar graph labelled Figure 15.16: Lifetime sexual assault GENDER IDENTITY (%)

Overall: 47 %

Crossdressers: 19%

Non-binary with female on birth certificate: 58%

Non-binary with male on birth certificate: 41%

Non-binary (all): 55%

Trans women: 37%

Trans men: 51%

Trans women and men: 44%

[USTS]

Image description:

A bar graph labelled Figure 15.18: Lifetime sexual assault among non-binary people with female on their original birth certificate RACE/ETHNICITY (%)

Overall (all participants): 47%

American Indian: 74%

Asian: 47%

Black: 65%

Latino: 55%

Middle Eastern: 62%

Multiracial: 67%

White: 59%

[USTS]

And SUCH low rates of being victims of violence in general 

Transgender men: 107.5 out of 1000 

Cisgender women: 23.7 out of 1000 

Cisgender men: 19.8 out of 1000 

Www.  ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7958056/ (sorry, had to add a sapce to get around tumblr formatting)

and like, this isn't even covering housing discrimination, experiences of non-violent interpersonal conflict, rates of domestic abuse, rates of survival sex work, healthcare discrimination, etc.

like, oh, yeah, that makes sense, masculinity is rewarded *just throws a dirty towel over the bodies of all the butches, gnc women, trans fems who don't pass, trans mascs, queer men, men of colour, etc*

#transandrophobia #its like. how stupid do you have to fucking be. #like. did these ppl never read. anything. literally anything at all. or hear about anything ever. #are they living under a rock #patting themselves on the back while a copy of stone butch blues gets rained on in the gutter

[up-in-flames-writing]

In lieu of Stuff Your Kindle day, can we talk about the issue of how the m/m genre of books, romance or not, is almost entirely dominated by women? Can we talk about how the most recognisable gay couples in media are written by women? Can we talk about how queer men can't even write about ourselves, how we are only allowed to exist when it's from the point of view of a straight woman sexualising us?

Can we talk about that? Or am I going to get called misogynistic for pointing out the disparity between who gets the writing deals, & who gets their books turned into movies, & whose shit gets popular versus whose doesn't? Can we talk about how m/m fiction is only allowed when it appeals to a cishet gaze, or is that too much for tumblr to take?

Can we also talk about how trans queer men are even more hated by publishing? Can we talk about how we get shit from both sides? Can we talk about how books about the experiences of being a queer man, written by queer men, never get the same recognition as books written by women on this subject (barring academia which has its own problems)?

Can we talk about that? Can we?

#booker speaks #no bloody clue how to tag this #this is for the tags only but #people would get up in arms if the f/f book scene was dominated by cismen only #why are we not extending this same energy to ciswomen writers of m/m? #why did we forget about the original meaning of own voices? #why are queer men pushed out of publishing in the way that we are? #& im not just talking about romance here #like there are fantasy & scifi & contemporary novels about men loving men that are written by ciswomen who have a very narrow view of what #m/m relationships are like. & this extends towards stuff like manga too but im not gonna get into that cause i dont read mangs/comics #can we talk about how hard it is to find queer masc authors nowadays? #saying this both as a reader & as a writer #can we also talk about how lists of queer & especially trans novels almost always forget to include anything by transmascs & gay transmascs #or if they do include us its 1 transmasc book to 1 enby book to 8 transfem books or books about the 'trans experience' in nebulous terms #can we stop reccing detransition baby & start reccing the spirit bares its teeth? #can we look at works written by queer masc people that arent just red white royal blue & stone butch blues? #go read cemetary boys #read alexis hall & max turner #read bloom if you like comics. or nimona #read my shit too! #im gonna be focusing on my writing blog way more this year #& im working on some projects that may or may not end up being published in physical form #read more queer masc stories by queer masc authors!

[familyabolisher]

it is genuinely very pleasant to be he/himmed and not deadnamed in the workplace like okay i could get used to this

#.txt #they think im a trans man because that is simply the easiest explanation to give #w/o having to sound like a 19yo who just read stone butch blues for the first time #and it's sooo much better than when i wld cosplay a cis woman at work lol

[pieandpaperbacks]

Top 10 books of 2023

My favourite books of 2023, in no particular order:

A House With Good Bones - T. Kingfisher I was so disappointed when this didn’t win the goodreads choice awards for horror of the year. It’s so creepy and unsettling but in a uniquely T. Kingfisher way that somehow manages to still be funny and kind of cozy.

Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett Of all the Discworld books I read this year, this one was definitely my favourite. I feel like Pratchett started to find his stride in this one, which I noticed more reading chronologically. Also it’s a spoof of Macbeth, and I’m a sucker for anything with Macbeth jokes.

The Bone Season (10th Anniversary Revised Edition) - Samantha Shannon I’ve loved the Bone Season series ever since I binged it in 2021, but the first book always fell a little flat for me. This revised edition fixed all the problems I had with the original. Highly recommend if you’re looking for a really unique fantasy/dystopia.

A Day of Fallen Night - Samantha Shannon I love Priory of the Orange Tree, so I was a little hesitant about a prequel, but ADOFN somehow managed to surpass Priory. It’s a  perfect high fantasy that spans many countries and characters, and features multiple sapphic characters, as well as bisexual, asexual, and other queer folks. This was my absolute favourite book of the year.

Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg One of the most important queer novels of the last 50 years. So glad I read this.

Tell Me I'm An Artist - Chelsea Martin This book found me at just the right time. It asks what it means to be an artist, and explores the intersections between the art world and privilege, and looks at the age old question; what is art?

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir I am so late to the Locked Tomb hype, and I can’t believe it took me this long to pick up Gideon the Ninth! The Locked Tomb is quickly becoming one of my favourite fantasy series.

Heartstopper Volume 5 - Alice Oseman I waited all year for this instalment of the Heartstopper series to come out, and I devoured it in one day. Alice Oseman's work is always beautiful and heartfelt, and Volume 5 of Heartstopper is no exception.

The Well of Ascension - Brandon Sanderson I dipped my toes into Sanderson's work for the first time this year, and I started with the Mistborn series. While the prose is not the most complex, the characters and setting are what truly drew me in. So far, The Well of Ascension is my favourite of the trilogy.

Nettle and Bone - T. Kingfisher I read six T. Kingfisher books this year, with the first one being Nettle and Bone, and it's still one of my favourites. A weird dark fairytale with goblin markets, a quest to kill a prince, grave witches, an evil puppet, and a chicken possessed by a demon. What else could you want?

#bookblr #book recommendations #books #currently reading #book review #t kingfisher #brandon sanderson #mistborn #discworld #terry pratchett #tell me i'm an artist #chelsea martin #nettle and bone #a house with good bones #the bone season #a day of fallen night #samantha shannon #stone butch blues #leslie feinberg #the roots of chaos #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt #wyrd sisters #heartstopper #alice oseman #heartstopper volume 5 #the well of ascension #wrap up

[androgynealienfemme]

"I need to go home to you tonight, Theresa. I can't. So I'm writing you this letter. I remember years ago, the day I started working at the cannery in Buffalo and you had already been there a few months, and how your eyes caught mine and played with me before you set me free. I was supposed to be following the foreman to fill our some forms but I was so busy wondering what color your hair was under that white paper net and how it would look and feel in my fingers, down loose and free. And I remember how you laughed gently when the foreman came back and said, "You comin' or not?"

All of us he-shes were mad as hell when we heard you got fired because you wouldn't let the superintendent touch your breasts. I still unloaded on the docks for another couples of days, but I was kind of mopey. it just wasn't the same after your light went out.

I couldn't believe it in the night I went to the club on the West Side. There you were, leaning up against the bar, your jeans too tight for words and your hair, your hair all loose and free.

And I remember that look in your eyes again. You didn't just know me, you liked what you saw. And this time, ooh woman, we were on our own turf. I could move the way you wanted me to, and I was glad we'd gotten all dressed up.

On our own turf... "Would you dance with me?"

You didn't say yes or no, just teased me with your eyes, straightened my tie, smoothed my collar, and took me by the hand. You had my heart before you moved against me like you did. Tammy was singing "Stand By Your Man," and we were changing all the he's to she's inside our heads to make it fit right. After you moved that way, you had more than my heart. You made me ache and you liked that. So did I.

The older butches warned me: If you wanted to keep your marriage, don't go to the bars. But I've always been a one-woman butch. Besides, this was our community, the only one we belonged to, so we went every weekend."

- Excerpt from "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg, On Butch and Femme: Compiled Readings, (edited by I.M. Epstein) (2017)

#stone butch blues #leslie feingberg #on butch and femme #on butch and femme: compiled readings #lesbian #lesbianism #butch #femme #butch and femme #butchfemme #butch lesbian #femme lesbian #lgbtq+ lit #lesbian lit #queer lit

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

It's 2024, having your Hogwarts house in your bio tells me more about your solidarity with trans people than your personality.

#No one ever says they're a hufflepuff. Why is that? #Tell me what your hdm dæmon is instead! #Mine is a loon: great at flying and swimming absolute shit at walking on land. Males and females are indistinguishable. #Gets trapped if it lands in a lake that's too small #Makes the very best sound of all birds #My Hogwarts House is GO READ STONE BUTCH BLUES #post o' mine #Trans #Lgbt #Queer

[lead-paint-girliepop]

i cry at night, when i think of them.

every queer who came before. the things they endured "three pieces of women's clothing or two of men's" entrenched into the law so people like us could be dragged to prison and humiliated.

i'll never know what it's like but i can see the pain on them. it's easy to spot them in a crowd at pride.

i'll never know what it's like because they'd never want me to. because the fights they fought and what they went through was all so we never would again. i could never pay them back for that. They'd never ask me to

#mine #cw homophobia #cw police brutality #reading stone butch blues #having emotions

[lezbianz]

does anyone want to hear my thoughts on the barbie movie? okay well even if you didn’t i didn’t like it. i thought it was weird that they tried to do an introduction to feminism from 2015 thing, especially considering it’s fucking barbie. and by that i don’t mean “let barbie be apolitical!” because that’s a dumb statement. it’s fucking barbie. i do mean however it was weird that they had the little girl whatsherface say everything that was wrong with the barbie brand and then they never refuted that or anything and just let it hang. but still did the 2015 feminism thing anyway. also the plot was bad and so was the pacing

#my post #if they let ME make the barbie movie barbie would be a hairy dyke & the last shot would be her reading stone butch blues or gender trouble #but if i had to do that while mattel produced it i’d probably cut out the twitter feminism stuff and ken’s weird patriarchy thing #& instead i’d focus on the mom & daughter more #and maybe make the plot about more barbies coming to the real world and having thst mess it up in wacky ways #idk #something like that

[stackslip]

re the last poll. people making revolutionary girl utena into the "Cute Sword Yuri Anime" has had devastating consequences

#eli talks #when i say it's no contest i mean that i've read stone butch blues and watched utena #and genuinely utena has not only more to say about queerness/gender than SBB it does it a hell of a lot better