#lesbian herstory

[clawsonflesh]

unknown source

#probably from on our backs #lesbian herstory #lesbian s/m #dyke history

[nansheonearth]

Please do not sleep on this: check out this free access to movies by lesbians!!! Just for the month of June.

From the website:

Celebrating Pride Month 2023!

To commemorate PRIDE Month, WMM is hosting a virtual film festival that highlights some of our newest releases about the LGTBQIA2S+ community.  Films are available for viewing at no cost for the duration of the festival (June 1 – June 30, 2023). Sign up below to receive a link and password for the festival.

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#radfem #women make movies #movie #herstory #lesbian herstory #history #gay history #gender #separatism #lesbian #wlw #to watch #signal boost #o

[secretceremonies]

Joan Nestle at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, New York City

1986

#lesbian #lesbian history #lesbian herstory #new york #new york city #1986 #80s #1980s #old lesbians #lesbians #vintage lesbians #women #feminism #radical feminism #old photos #80s photos

[downrushing]

THOUGHT PATTERNS, jennifer camper. detail from consciousness-raising group flyer; undated. via lesbian herstory archives on Instagram.

#lesbian herstory #lesbian #lesbian history #lesbian artists #lesbian art #lesbian herstory archives #🧿mine.

[radwave]

photos by J.E.B. • from Women: A Journal of Liberation, vol. 5 no. 2 (January 1974)

#the link goes to Jstor where many editions of this publication are available for download for free :) #i was lucky enough to get to flip thru this one in person on the land #⚢ #lesbian #women: a journal of liberation #j.e.b. #women's land #lesbian herstory #photography

[sunbleachedfragments]

"[my children] were forbidden to be in my home because I was what a woman shouldn't be. I was too much woman, I was not woman enough. I was too interested in women, in sex, in my own sex. No home for me, though my job paid the rent. No home except loneliness, living in the in-between places."

– Minnie Bruce Pratt, S/he

#this was in my drafts and it hit me just now. so hard #minnie bruce pratt #lesbian literature #lesbian herstory #butchfem #butch femme #leslie feinberg

[positivityforlesbians]

Mid-2000s French middle-school closeted lesbians often included wearing the keffieh around your neck, this is a simple post not to lose that piece of information over time. Some of us remember. RIP to that bubble in time gals, you were loved and I know today you probably drink often during the weekends, are super good at drawing and look pissed off because living in such a fucked society is a pain in the ass. And you're right. You were always right.

#anonymous #my answers #lesbian safe #lesbian culture #lesbian herstory #fashion #lmao

[latkejoon]

obsessed with this

(from The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan)

#lgbt history #lgbtq #queer history #lesbian #butch/femme #lesbian history #lesbian herstory

[clawsonflesh]

On Our Backs magazine, summer 1984

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[nansheonearth]

Hey! I know you have a pretty big following of festie women, so I thought perhaps one of them may have this game?

It's an old trivia game, and it has SO much interesting lesbian history contained in it, but it's almost impossible to find. It's a pretty long shot, but if anyone has digitized it (or part of it), would they be willing to share?

To anon: I've seen and played with a physical copy of this at the Oakland Museum in CA from their lgbtq exhibit many years ago. I hope there are other copies of this around. Maybe someone at the museum has more info. Please reblog to find this game!

#radfem #lesbian herstory #herstory #lesbian #wlw #history #gay history #anon #ask #reply #o #want

[radwave]

“The Cook and the Carpenter”, Cathy Cade • The Blatant Image no.2, 1982

#⚢ #butch #lesbian herstory #the blatant image #cathy cade #photography #tradeswomen

[thequeereview]

Exclusive Interview: Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s curator Ariel Goldberg "it's about coming together to insist on preserving & activating trans & queer histories"

As we face an onslaught of regressive legislative attacks on LGBTQIA+ life, focused on trans rights, along with reproductive, and voting rights, book bans and restrictions on school curriculums, it can be empowering to look back at the organizing and methods of grassroots trans and queer resistance in previous decades. That was part of the inspiration for writer and photographer Ariel Goldberg as…

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[positivityforlesbians]

Hi! I'm a gay trans man; no matter how much you say you're not transphobic, you are. "Females who identify as nonbinary should just call themselves tomboys and live as women~" Guess what, I called myself a tomboy from 5-15 years old and used "I'm a tomboy" to contradict anyone calling me a girl because I was never a girl but had no words to say it. I am disgusted with your assertions that someone can be a lesbian (woman attracted to only women) while attracted to trans men. WE'RE MEN. OUR BODIES HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT. Same goes for anyone who isn't cisgender. I would fucking vomit if a lesbian came onto me knowing I was a trans man, because that would be her saying "I disrespect your very being as a human person and only see you for your genitals as a sexual object." You don't see how fucked up that is? That's what some cishet men do all the time to anyone they think is a cis women, do you think that's fucked up?

Not quite sure why you're sending this here now but since you're trying me I will answer. You're attributing quotes to me that I quite simply never expressed, you lack nuance.

Buddy, we don't give a fuck that you're homophobic and think it's "disgusting" that lesbians can be attracted to trans men. We are homosexual. No matter how weird you think it is. This has nothing to do with gender, behaviour, style. A trans man who is not medically transitioned yet look exactly the same as a woman, if they are looking masculine and we don't know the person then how exactly do you think we can know the difference and not think the person can be a masculine woman who possibly is same-sex attracted too ?

This is being realistic and honest about our sexual orientation. If you don't like hearing it then it's quite frankly not our problem. Lesbians can fall for trans men and not even know they (trans men) identify this way. Even different pronouns and not identifying as a woman doesn't necessarily stop us from being into someone who is female, you should know that since now the (English) language is shifting so much to include in lesbian attraction non-binary people (again, incredible how it's not all people who identify as non-binary, we are not bisexual). You think we magically can tell how someone identify from just looking at them ?

I know you're not used to it at this point but lesbians are tired of staying silent and being disrespected just for existing. Our sexual orientation doesn't exist as a validation machine. You identify as a trans man ? Great for you ! Now have the decency to listen to us when we talk about our experiences, to just open your eyes and see what's going on around you, to actually document yourself on homosexuality and the history of dating in both the lesbian and trans men community. We share something, it's not a coincidence, even though you seem to deny that. Not all lesbians will date trans men, far from that, but it's really not uncommon, notably for couples that were already together before one of the partners transitioned. There are trans men right now that don't take T or have stopped taking it (while still identifying as trans men) that are 100% desirable to lesbians, that's not what you want to hear but we cannot just stop being attracted to someone who is of the same sex as ours just to be in line with what homophobes like you want everyone to believe.

Does this mean lesbians will "come onto you knowing you're a trans man" if they are attracted to you (assuming the person isn't medically transitioned) ? No. If they don't want to change their label. But also yes. If they are willing to change their label, not to force themselves but because they truly believe it changes something - or out of respect (but then they don't give that respect to their own self). It won't change their nature, their sexual orientation stays the same. Being exclusively attracted to the same sex does not mean "I disrespect your very being as a human person and only see you for your genitals as a sexual object", it means we fall in love with people for their personalities, their passion, their laugh, their smile, every cute detail about them, but that it simply cannot happen if the person is from the opposite sex.

It was very much understood in the lgbt community as a whole up until maybe 12 years ago that trans men and lesbians sometimes date, just like trans women and gay men sometimes date. Trans people themselves were (and still are to some extent, of course), not seeing a contradiction because, you know, they/you are trans, meaning we have the same sex. Hope this helps.

#anonymous #lesbophobia #my answers #trans men #lesbian community #dating #lesbian herstory