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the op of this post was a terf so i’m reposting it because i think these resources are important and useful!! i have not read all of these resources myself, so let me know if there’s an issue with any of them and i’ll remove it!

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LESBIAN FICTION-

Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg [pdf]

Crybaby Butch - Judith Frank

Far from Xanadu - Julie Anne Peters

Persistent Desire - Joan Nestle

Annie on my mind- Nancy Garden

Keeping you a secret- Julie Anne Peters

Leaving L.A.- Kate Christie

Me and you and daisies- Lily R. Mason

The world unseen- Shamim Sarif

Wildthorn- Jane England

Tipping the velvet- Sarah Waters

Dare truth or promise- Paula Boock

And Playing the role of herself- K.E. Lane

Hunter’s Way- Gerri Hill

Ash- Malinda Lo

The price of Salt- Patricia Highsmith

Patience & Sarah- Isabel Miller

The Gravity between us- Kristen Zimmer

Her name in the sky- Kelly Quindlen

Taking the long way- Lily R. Mason

Fingersmith- Sarah Waters

Everything Leads to You - Nina LaCour

She’s My Ride Home - Jackie Bushore

NONFICTION-

Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book by Ginny Vida

Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon

Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son by Phyllis Burke

Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue, (Knopf)

My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage by Barrie Jean Borich

Butch is a Noun, by S. Bear Bergman.- a collection of essays written by the author exploring what it means to be butch

Dagger: On Butch Women, edited by Lily Burana and Roxxie Linea Due.

The Persistent Desire, A Femme-Butch Reader, edited by Joan Nestle.

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, by Lillian Faderman

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold- Elizabeth Kennedy & Madeline Davis

COOL WEBSITES:

Lesbian Herstory Archives - this is the coolest website ever for browsing stuff about lesbians in history

(and Here’s a link for the Lesbian Herstory Archives’ audio tapes collection, its really cool check it out! Great for finding interesting stuff if u dont know what to read/listen to and would like to kill some time :D !)

The Lesbrary - super cool blog dedicated to lesbian literature

Good Lesbian Books-  cool website. Heres a link to their list of Free Stuff :)

Books to watch out for - lesbian book reviews and literary news

Lesbian Fiction Review

Lesbian Science Fiction

Sistahs on the Shelf - Cool site dedicated to Black Lesbian fiction. Reviews, News, Recommendations, Authors n more

Canadian Lesbian Book Blog

Biblioteca Feminista - Books/ book recommendations in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Italian

List of Lesbian Authors’ sites

Lesbian full-text works on the web - list of lesbian content available for free on the web. Mostly older works

LGBT books for teens

UK Lesbian Fiction

Women and Words - site devoted to bringing news, interviews, writing tips, giveaways and more

The Book Dyke blog

LGBT Romance Novels

Lesbian History Bibliography

Kickstarter – Invisible Women: The Story of Two LGBTQ Revolutionaries

Mancunian’s Angela and Luchia have spent the last half a century fighting for their rights as women and as lesbians. Their work has revolutionised Manchester and transformed the lives of thousands of women, yet no record of them exists in the city’s archives.

Their’s is a story that risks disappearing from history - but not if director Alice Smith (BBC 4, PBS, National Geographic, Discovery Channel) and producer Joe Ingham​ (The People’s History of LGBT Britain, BBC 4, and Is Love Racist, C4) can help it…

WHY THIS FILM MATTERS

The year 2017 witnessed a rich variety of programmes and films that explored the 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality. However, the vast majority of that work focused almost exclusively on the experience of white, middle class gay men from London - women’s stories, and particularly the story of regional working-class women, has largely been ignored.

While Invisible Women is ostensibly about Angela and Luchia’s personal and political journey, Alice and Joe use the two women’s relationship to explore Manchester and, in particular, the - up until now - untold story of the north west’s LGBTQ past through a working class lens of rebellion and activism which is still alive today.

LUCHIA AND ANGELA’S STORY

Manchester, 1969. Luchia Fitzgerald, a teenage lesbian runaway from Ireland struggles to survive on the streets of Manchester. She’s arrested and sent for a lobotomy to cure her of her “deviant sexual tendencies”. Luchia escapes the lobotomy to seek solace in the New Union, a pub at the epicentre of Manchester’s underground gay community.

At her lowest ebb, Luchia hears a female student at the next table giving voice to every frustration she felt - Luchia pulls up a chair to listen. That student was Angela and this chance encounter sparked a relationship that has endured fifty years of euphoric highs and earth-shattering lows in the struggle to change life for all women.

As their work gains a momentum of its own and changes lives beyond the city, Angela and Luchia’s love affair begins to falter. The GLF disbands, the band splits up, and the printing press closes. It’s the 1980s and things are moving backwards not forwards…

Set against this landscape of apathy comes a bombshell: Thatcher’s repressive Section 28 bill. It is this attack against their hard-won rights that forces the two women to reunite and transform the city of Manchester once again.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

Until now Alice and Joe have entirely self-funded the project using their own camera kit to shoot. They’ve been supported by Manchester’s Peoples’ History Museum, Manchester Central Library, Contact Theatre and the Bishopsgate institute in London who have all offered either free filming locations or archive material.

Now, the pair have a provisional premiere date: Manchester Pride, 24 – 27 August 2018, but in order to complete the film in time they need funding to license archive material, pay for the edit, and commission a score. Feeling inspired..?

Framing Lesbian Fashion;  Dir. Karen Everett,  (1992)  60 min.  USA

This highly entertaining documentary explores how North America’s diverse lesbian culture has used clothing to signify social and political identities over the last forty years. The filmmaker combines her personal story (bracketing the film with a tongue-in-cheek fashion show by the film maker herself) with the fashion journeys of six other lesbians. Characters tell how in the early days of feminism, newly politicised lesbians shunned feminine apparel and the old butch/femme look for an androgynous uniform. In the 1990s, lesbians are edging toward the stage of mainstream American society, sporting a splash of culturally signified costumes that are sewn with possibilities and perils. The video uses archival photographs, interviews and ‘women’s music’ to evoke days gone by. As the video progresses, the camera follows characters into lesbian households, boutiques and dance clubs. These cinema verite sequences imbue viewers with the ordinary flavour of revolutionary lives.

Framing Lesbian Fashion looks at the evolution of lesbian attire and identity -butch/femme, flannel, androgyny, cross-dressing and drag, qu**r fluorescent, S/M and leather, lipstick and more. Featuring interviews with Sally Gearhart, JoAnn Loulan, Arlene Stein, Kitty Tsui and others, Framing Lesbian Fashion  incorporates archival photos and personal stories to document the sociology and history of lesbian fashion.

Watch Now (USA Student Libraries)

Frameline Distribution

Matilda ft. OMVR  // Apologize

Everything you said about all of your dreams

Your future with me

can women really live their lives without seeking romantic and intimate connections with men? Is there such a thing as a woman who is not attracted to men? Is there such a thing as a woman who really, legitimately wants to build her life with women, who is absolutely sure she doesn’t desire men?

Questioning the legitimacy of women without men isn’t a new topic, but the language used to delegitizimze lesbian sexuality is evolving and adapting to new norms.