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Dykes Against Racism Everywhere

Transgender flag creator Monica Helms with her wife Darlene Wagner and fellow trans activist Kelley Winters, presenting the original trans flag to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in 2014

“Girls With Attitude”

would encourage looking for these in local bookshops if you can, especially books by authors of colour

on butch/femme: compiled readings, compiled by i.m. epstein (collection of genres)

the persistent desire: a femme-butch reader, edited by joan nestle (collection of genres, register on archive.org or here is a pdf)

last train out of the city by ivan coyote (poem)

the only blak queer in the world by ellen van neervan (poem)

boots of leather, slippers of gold by elizabeth lapovsky kennedy and madeline gold (history, register on archive.org)

odd girls and twilight lovers by lillian faderman (history)*

the vintage book of international lesbian fiction, edited by joan nestle (fiction, register on archive.org or here is an epub)*

women on women: an anthology of american lesbian short fiction, edited by joan nestle and naomi holoch (fiction, register on archive.org)*

stone butch blues by leslie feinberg (fiction, cw r*pe, assault, police brutality)

beebo brinker series by ann brannon (pulp fiction, this is all five books in one)

notes of a crocodile by qiu miaojin (fiction)*

the color purple by alice walker (fiction, cw incest, r*pe)

tipping the velvet by sarah waters (fiction)

oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson (fiction)

zami by audre lorde (biomythography)*

s/he by minnie bruce pratt (memoir, register on archive.org)*

fun home by alison bechdel (graphic memoir)

epistemology of the closet by eve kosofsky sedgwick (lit theory)*

the T on chinese transmasculinity by jinghua qian (essay)

who says we don't talk about sex? by kitty tsui (essay, found in the persistent desire but this is my post so i'm adding it)

asterisk = things i haven't read but intend to

Aya [Brown]’s scenic depictions beam with ghetto nuance and seduction. Her work is intersectional—she takes artifacts from Black and queer culture and fuses them, putting a face to the often unseen. Aya’s art suggests that lowbrow is the latest highbrow response to boring straight white male culture. Her style draws upon figures both living and deceased, from Missy Elliott to Toni Morrison. It’s nasty foreplay and sensual love. It’s Black Lesbian pride. “It is one of my biggest missions in life to document my own history, BLACK LESBIAN history,” she tells office. “This is not a game of telephone. I don’t want a little Black girl to learn about us, from anyone but us.”

if you're trans and fat i love you, our bodies are stunning, we dont have to conform to skinny people's standards. fat trans people are incredible and deserve the world.

i love my fat trans body.

Boston Pride ‘96 | Carla Osberg

In 1996, the Boston chapter of the Lesbian Avengers pushed a bed along the route of Boston Pride. During the march, members climbed on the bed and kissed and caressed through the streets. The goal was to create a blatant image of lesbian sexuality for public consumption as both an artistic and a political act, and make a statement about dominant hetero-normative rhetoric surrounding sex and sexuality.

The act caused a scandal, now known as "bedgate” which led to Pride organizers, news outlets, and even the mayor of Boston denouncing it as “distasteful and irresponsible”. The Boston Dyke March commission released a statement following the backlash, asserting “When we permit straights in suits to define us, chastise us or credit our good behavior, we lose power and the qualities that make us beautiful.”

Vintage 80s Retro Lesbian Buttons from LowSparkVintage

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