there's our catastrophe

Jan 13

can we please just fucking stop having arguments about whether “femme privilege” is a thing or not

presenting feminine or masculine as a woman is not the kind of social division that neatly maps onto a privilege/oppression binary and arguments over who has the “privilege” in this situation is like asking “so, which one of you is the man?”

sometimes you get shit for not gender-conforming

sometimes you get shit for being feminine

because you can’t win as a woman in this world

that’s why we need feminism

that’s, like, feminism 101

christ almighty people, get your shit together

Dec 3

by willow darling

May 6

k so I know everyone and their dog has had a whinge about the ridiculous sexuality labels of tumblr but squaresome found a particularly depressing one the other night, “lithosexual”, which apparently means “experiences sexual attraction but is not interested in acting on it”.

it’s just — if you must transform every kind of sexual behaviour into a specific identity, there is already a word for that, “celibate”. “busy” would do, though. possibly, given the age of a lot of people using this label, simply “not ready to have sex yet”.

anyway I’m super annoyed because I was all like “lol what does that even mean, you like rocks, lol” and then annoyed at myself for being so juvenile, and then I researched the matter and found out that it is, in fact, derived from “stone” as in stone butch and then I got way more annoyed than I was to begin with. this is a huge mischaracterisation of stone sexualities and it’s really appropriative and gross. it’s staggeringly heterocentric, not to mention misogynist, to think that an orientation that’s basically about a) being a lesbian and b) having strong boundaries about where you can be touched is in any way analogous to celibacy.

anyway, just one more data point for the “asexuals and fellow travellers are homophobic assholes who think that lesbian sex is not real and that all non-asexuals are hungry for all kinds of sex all the time” files

May 5

januarydaze:

leslie-feinberg:

STONE BUTCH BLUES
DEDICATION for CECE McDONALD

I have taken back my author rights
to Stone Butch Blues.

I am working on plans for a
20th-anniversary author edition
of Stone Butch Blues
for Spring 2013

A digital multi-media edition will be
available free online.

A not-for-profit, at-cost print edition
will be available for order online,
as well.

During our visit in jail,
I asked CeCe McDonald
if I could dedicate
Stone Butch Blues to her.

I’m thrilled to announce:
She said “Yes!”

When I saw this attached photo
for the first time, it was clear to me,
that this is the dedication photograph!!

More information on
novel publication as it develops.

Soon, I’ll also post information
regarding translations.

FREE
CECE!

wow.

Also Leslie Feinberg has a tumblr, did you know?

Oct 8

squaresome:

I was by myself in the back streets of Patterson Lakes the other day (outer suburb of Melbourne).

As I walk towards a milk bar, two small boys on bikes stare at me.

Small boy 1: “Are you a cowboy?”

Me: “Yep”

Small boy 2: “Are you a boy or a girl?”

I think to myself how do I explain the intricacies of butch woman to these small boys.

Me: “In between”

(via squaresome-deactivated20120630)

Jul 2

upmountains:

butch star (by c a i tlin)

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

May 24

“I’m into replacing butch/femme with audrey/agent cooper.” caitlin ate

Apr 2

s. bear bergman — “i know what butch is”

we watched this the other day in class & it was the best

Feb 3

mewmewfoucault:

xmusic:

JD Samson of Le Tigre has a new project, aptly titled MEN:

“The members of Women are males, and Girls are guys, but things aren’t so straightforward with MEN, the Brooklyn trio fronted by genderqueer poster child JD Samson. (She’s female-identified, a butch lesbian, for the hundreds of you who arrive at this site by searching ‘jd samson gender’ or ‘jd samson trans’ or ‘jd samson mustache’.) Anyhow, some more details on their debut full-length album have surfaced: Scroll down for the cover artwork and final tracklisting for Talk About Body, which is out the 31st of January in the UK and the 1st of February in the US.”

— Via ExPatriarch

Download a free track from the album here.

edited to add: yay jd samson and queer music

but also idk if jd samson actually identifies as genderqueer or non-binary in any way, and it’s fucked and sexist to assume that all butches identify that way (or that all butches who occupy an arbitrary space of butchness that’s ‘hard enough’ or less legibly ‘female’ in some folks’ view do)

<3 JD <3 MEN. but also: you make an important point!

my understanding (which could be wrong, as these things can change, but I did research it for A BILLION YEARS BECAUSE OF MY JD LOVE) is that JD IDs as butch, lesbian, and female

it’s kind of amazing how many people I know (who have not researched the matter) are really resistant to this idea and believe that JD is a trans dude

you guys, a moustache alone does not a dude make

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