#queer masculinity

[genderqueerdykes]

the point of my masculinity and male positivity posts are to underline that masculinity and manhood are seen as a threat or in direct opposition to queerness, and that often times in order to be seen as queer you have to be partially or wholly feminine or gender neutral, or express your manhood in a feminine or gender neutral way in order to no longer be threatening, invasive, or a problem.

it is very difficult to exist in queer spaces as a hyper masculine person & a man. you're made to feel like you need to walk a tight rope feeling like you're inherently out of place, as if you existing and being masculine or a man in queer spaces makes others uncomfortable inherently.. just know that when i make positivity posts it is to remind us all that masculinity/manhood and queerness are not opposites and that you do not have to be a feminine man or masc person to be viewed/seen/heard as queer.

chasing men, masculine people, and masculinity out of queer spaces isn't helping anyone currently and won't help anyone down the line. please accept masc enbies, butches, bears, and masculine trans men with the same kindness, love, and passion that you do neutral and feminine people. that's the point when i make these kinds of posts. thank u

#our writing #masculinity #queer masculinity #queer manhood #queer men #boydyke #lesboy #butch lesbian #masculenby #masculine #enby #nonbinary #demiboy #bear #gay bear #trans man #ftm #trans guy #trans boy #trans men #trans man positivity #trans men positivity #butch #butches #butch dyke

[fagpunkqueer]

i love you bears i love you butches i love you trans men i love you transmascs i love you drag kings i love you masc queers of all persuasions the world is so much better and brighter for the existence of queer masculinity

#original post #queer masculinity #masc positivity #bear positivity #butch positivity #trans man pride #trans man positivity #transmasc pride #transmasc positivity #positive masculinity #queer community #queer solidarity #queer pride #queer positivity #trans pride #trans positivity #trans masculinity #transmasculinity

[furylad]

if you "cringe" at trans men calling themselves "self made men" you are weak and not my comrade. go heal your heart

#trans #trans men #trans masc #ftm #queer masculinity

[trans-androgyne]

Well if your pronouns include “he” now, don’t you know you don’t need safe spaces? After all they give you full gender rights under misogyny, and you’re suddenly more likely to be violent sexual and queerphobic. I’m just affirming your gender after all, so I can’t be transphobic /s

#my favorite part of being transmasculine is the way the world is definitely safer for me than before :) #even though I now just have to deal with transphobia otherness and my safe spaces evaporating on top of the regular misogyny I experience #transandrophobia #transphobia #queer masculinity #androphobia #mine

[hadeantaiga]

Masculinity does not belong to the patriarchy.

Masculinity can be as queer and as subversive as femininity, and I don't just mean when it's worn by cis women.

Masculine queer MEN are GOOD, too.

Doesn't matter if that man is bi or gay or trans or nonbinary or any other queer variation you can think of. His masculinity is still good.

And of course this includes masculine queer women, because let's be honest, some of you who claim you support butches are still fucking abnormal about masculinity even when it's a woman performing it, especially if she's "too masc" for your tastes.

And this includes people who are nonbinary or genderqueer or agender. They don't owe you neutrality in their grender presentation. They can be the hairiest, fattest, most masculine butch person you've ever seen, and they're still nonbinary.

#lgbtqia+ positivity #lgbt history #queer masculinity

[absurdlyalive]

The lies that people tell you about testosterone are so many and so hurtful. Do you know how often you can be told that you will become an unfeeling, dumb, uncreative, ugly and unlovable predator by virtue of 1 hormone before you internalize some of these ideas and view yourself in the same light? And how damaging that can be to your self-worth, your feelings of competence, belongingness, your trust in the fact that you are worthy of love? It’s so cruel to instill these images in the minds of trans men and anyone who desires to go or be on T.

And, I would argue, it has created generation after generation of men, cis and trans, who do not seek help, who do not think their real feelings are worth uttering, who only ever know how to speak in gestures of desperation, who self-isolate, who self-harm, who become addicts and consider themselves perpetual losers in every possible way. When the failure has been that of a patriarchal society that does not know how not to dehumanize everyone in it and drive a wedge between us by way of branding all of us as somehow wrong, bad and other.

#p #trans #transandrophobia #transphobia #masculinity #queer masculinity

[glrlafraid]

why is being a young butch kind of the most isolating feeling ever

#i feel like people hate people like me #we’re not represented anywhere #not even in media made by lesbians for lesbians #it’s so fucking lonely #lesbian #butch #butch dyke #butch lesbian #masc lesbian #queer masculinity

[sydsixxftm]

Tattooed hairy transmasc tummy (feat. little shorts)

#alt enby #ftm nsft #t4t nsft #enby nsft #tattooed trans guy #queer nsft #queer masculinity #top surgery

[prettyguardian-prettygirl]

Mascs, Studs, and Butches are an amazing gift to the world

#queer masculinity #masc positivity #stud lesbian #black femme #femme4butch #femme4masc #femme4stud #femme for masc #femme for butch #butch positivity #stone butch #sapphic love #sapphic longing #sapphic yearning #masc lesbian #lesbian

[cruzdelcastillo]

me and my boyfriend 🙈

#americana #texas #ethel cain #lana del rey #gangsta #motel #boyfriend #gay love #queer masculinity #lgbtq community #lgbtqia #a&w lana del rey #real tree #southern gothic #midwest gothic #midwest emo #gay men #gay couple

[transbutchbluess]

having to reassure my mother about the fact that i want to medically transition is both funny and sad. i thought making her read stone butch blues would help but it didn’t (i think she still liked it tho). i still have to explain to her that i’m transitioning toward queer masculinities and not toward cishet manhood. it’s exhausting.

she has this weird idea that masculinity is inherently toxic and that i’m betraying women if i want to look like a guy. she keeps telling me about the changes and how male puberty is basically disgusting, just because she is “worried” for me/my body. at this point i find myself laughing about it sometimes.

like, come on. my scars due to past self harm will probably never fade away. i used to starve myself. i’m physically disabled. my body is bad enough already, testosterone doesn’t have anything left to “ruin” !

anyway, i try my best to explain to her how subverting masculinity is important, and how i can want to medically transition without wanting to be a cis man and while still identifying as a lesbian. and when the conversation is over i go sit by my altars and i pray to deities that are very transsexual themselves and very supportive of my queerness

#transness #trans #transsexuality #transgender #queer #queerness #queer masculinity #lesbian masculinity #butch #lesbian #transmasc lesbian #religion & queerness #personal

[trans-androgyne]

Queer masculinity is so wonderful :D I love you transmascs, I love you butches, I love you anyone who takes masculinity and makes it your own. It’s a good look for you and you are radical for celebrating it.

#queer masculinity #transmasc positivity #butch positivity #transmasc #trans man #ftm #butch #lesbian #queer #mine

[uncanny-tranny]

Queer mascs: learn to love other queer mascs. Not strictly in a romantic or sexual way, but learn to love the way other queer mascs exist. I promise it can change your entire viewpoint about your own queer masculinity. Learn to appreciate everything about your fellow mascs, your fellow butches and studs, your fellow genderbending freak, whatever it may be, and you will one day find that you will love your queer masculinity so much more.

#queer #lgbt #lgbtq #queer masculinity #i was taught my trans understanding of masculinity wasn't good for so long until i actually started existing around other masc people #even following masc butches and studs has given me such a deeper understanding of not only them but myself <3 #this blog defends to the death queer masculinity in every shape and form

[dyke-on]

Butches aren't trying to look like cishet men we're definitely inspired by gay men and trans men though

#butch #trans masc #queer masculinity

[perfectlyripeclementine]

there’s something so sacred about the relationship queer masc folks have to pleasure. i’m thinking folks on that spectrum between masc dyke/transmasc. in my experience because folks have such a nuanced relationship with their own bodies & varying levels of comfort with being touched, there is SO much emphasis on sharing pleasure, on mirroring the pleasure that they give.

it’s this incredible spin on the hetero thing of taking pleasure FROM someone, where pleasure is not a zero-sum game; their pleasure is the same as my pleasure, things that don’t feel good to me don’t feel good to them. it’s like when you put two mirrors in front of one another and they are refracted into infinity: turning me on turns you on, seeing you turned on turns me on, and it just escalates until we’re both shaking and satisfied and exhausted.

i see this so much in how ppl relate to their strap, or how they react when i’m riding and grinding on them - the times i’ve made someone come without touching them or even taken off their clothes, because seeing me and feeling my weight is enough to evoke the physical feeling of being inside me. i swear i saw God the first time i felt someone come inside me through the strap. these experiences have brought me so much closer to my own body and the pleasure i can not only experience but share. it’s so holy, and in the times when someone has wanted me to touch and pleasure them it felt so intimate and precious to be given that trust. no cis man could’ve helped me unlock this.

AND i see all of this mirrored too in the protector/carer dynamic - like i love the feeling of strong arms around me, love the emotion of someone wanting me to be theirs and wanting to keep me safe. and i love the squishy insides, love to be a source of sweetness and healing and regeneration, love to hold someone in my bare palms and be able to say this is for you, this care and pleasure i give you is yours to keep. i love how those things are seen and received rather than taken for granted the way that cis men do.

anyways when i hear people say femme/masc dynamics recreate straightness, or that thing of “well why don’t you just date a REAL man then?” i want to say that’s EXACTLY the point. queer masculinity gives me everything i cherish about men without the violence, the ownership that men are raised & trained for.

#ofc this doesn’t apply to every masc woman or transmasc person #take what resonates leave what doesn’t #this is just a thing i am Into and have met enough ppl this applies to that i think there’s a trend #if ur masc and this doesn’t apply to you that’s cool! that means i’m not taking about u! #this post is queer #nblnb #this turned out LONG #if ur anywhere on the queer masc spectrum u get a kiss & a snuggle #queer masculinity #queer love #queer sex #it’s hard to express this without implying that trans men aren’t Real Men #and that’s not at all what i believe or am trying to communicate #but i do think everyone who’s some kinda Gender Weird has a level of understanding of their own body that cis people rarely reach #ok i’m done #for now #idk if i ID as femme in general #but i def ID as a femme relative to the femme4butch dynamic #except maybe themme4queermasc #this post is about non binary love

[sydsixxftm]

Masculinity comes in many forms, here's to celebrating them all 🏳️‍⚧️

#pride month #trans pride #ftm pride #queer masculinity #alt trans masc #tattooed trans guy #nonbinary man #transmasculine #ftm dom #t4t #trans nsft #alt enby #leather