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the thing about being alone is that it’s so peaceful and freeing and cool apart from the evenings you descend into literal hell

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Jennifer Barber, a 21 year-old English major at Colby College, from Newton Centre, Mass., a Rhodes Scholar. She was one of 12 women chosen... the second year women have been allowed to apply.

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saved the hair for last

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Out of curiosity, does anyone in radblr have any crime statistics for tims or tifs?

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Jean Seberg photographed by Bob Willoughby on the set of "Saint Joan", 1957.

Very special thanks to @ nastassjakinskis on Instagram for sending me these photos. Please, follow them on ig :)

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Antoniucci Volti, 1915-1989

Les Trois Grâces, ca.1960, terracotta, 49x32 cm

Private Collection

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random 2000s lesbians on abandoned 16 year old flickr account you mean absolutely fucking everything to me

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“Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.”

- Mary Wollstonecraft, ‘Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman’ (1798)

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How come that i took this home and the safety alarm didn't beep? I could have just stolen it

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Céline Bodin

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“Oh yeah, we mixed with lesbians. We always got along back then. All that division between the lesbian women and queens came after 1974 when Jane O'Leary and the radical lesbians came up. The radicals did not accept us or masculine-looking women who looked like men. And those lesbian women might not even have been trans. But we did get along famously in the early 60’s. I’ve been to many a dyke party… The lesbian community today has a lot to learn from the old ways of the lesbian community.”

— Sylvia Rivera (via millesbianfalcon)

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"The notion that rape is enjoyed by the victim is also convenient for the man who, though he would not commit forcible rape, enjoys the idea of its existence, as if rape confirms that enormous sexual potency which he secretly knows to be his own. It is for the pleasure of the armchair rapist that detailed accounts of violent rapes exist in the media. Indeed, many men appear to take sexual pleasure from nearly all forms of violence. Whatever the motivation, male sexuality and violence in our culture seem to be inseparable."

Rape by Susan Griffin

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hi! you post some of my fav resource/ref posts, and I was wondering if you had any suggestions of resources on lesbians/homosexuality? most everything that I'm finding while searching myself is pretty watered down libfem garbage that is just not helpful at all. thanks in advance and much love!

i only put books i own for the most part (though i haven’t read all of them) on this list, but hopefully it’s helpful! i think all of these can easily be purchased on amazon, but i would recommend checking your library and third-party sellers first.

general:

another mother tongue: gay words, gay worlds by judy grahn

baby, you are my religion: women, gay bars, and theology before stonewall by marie cartier

changing our minds: lesbian feminism and psychology by celia kitzinger

lesbian culture, an anthology: the lives, work, ideas, art and visions of lesbians past and present; edited by julia penelope and susan wolfe

the celluloid closet: homosexuality in movies by vito russo

the disappearing l: erasure of lesbian spaces and culture by bonnie j. morris

the highest apple: sappho and the lesbian poetic tradition by judy grahn

the lesbian fantastic: a critical study of science fiction, fantasy, paranormal and gothic writings by phyllis m. betz

the lesbian menace: ideology, identity, and the representation of lesbian life by sherrie a. inness

vampires and violets: lesbians in the cinema by andrea weiss

let’s get global:

between women: friendship, desire, and marriage in victorian england by sharon marcus

boots of leather, slippers of gold: the history of a lesbian community by elizabeth lapovsky kennedy and madeline d. davis

charity and sylvia: a same-sex marriage in early america by rachel hope cleves

immodest acts: the life of a lesbian nun in renaissance italy by judith c. brown

lesbian decadence: representations in art and literature of fin-de-siècle france by nicole g. albert, tr. nancy erber and william peniston

lesbian nuns: breaking silence; edited by rosemary curb and nancy manahan

love between women: early christian responses to female homoeroticism by bernadette j. brooten

loving women: being lesbian in unprivileged india by maya sharma

odd girls and twilight lovers: a history of lesbian life in 20th-century america by lillian faderman

passions between women by emma donoghue

sakhiyani: lesbian desire in ancient and modern india by giti thadani

sapphistries: a global history of love between women by leila j. rupp

surpassing the love of men: romantic friendship and love between women from the renaissance to the present by lillian faderman

the sexuality of history: modernity and the sapphic, 1565-1830 by susan s lanser

to believe in women: what lesbians have done for america-a history by lillian faderman

wayward lives, beautiful experiments: intimate histories of riotous black girls, trouble women, and queer radicals by saidiya v. hartman

women’s sexualities and masculinities in a globalizing asia; edited by saskia e. wieringa, evelyn blackwood, and abha bhaiya

unspeakable love: gay and lesbian life in the middle east by brian whitaker

(auto)biographical:

dispatches from lesbian america: 45 short stories and memoirs by lesbian writers; edited by xequina maria berber, giovanna capone, and cheela romaine smith

fun home: a family tragicomic by alison bechdel

in the dream house by carmen maria machado (i think machado identifies as queer but she’s married to a woman and this is a book about her experiences being in an abusive lesbian relationship, so it counts)

my lesbian experience with loneliness by nagata kabi (a warning, this novel involves a woman’s experience with a lesbian escort)

rubyfruit jungle by rita mae brown

sister love: the letters of audre lorde and pat parker, 1974-1989 by audre lorde and pat parker

the secret diaries of miss anne lister: volume 1: i know my own heart by anne lister

the secret diaries of miss anne lister: volume 2: no priest but love by anne lister

vita and virginia: the lives and loves of virginia woolf and vita sackville-west by sarah gristwood

zami: a new spelling of my name by audre lorde

fiction, poetry, and plays: (this list is lacking because i’m not combing through every single kindle book mostly because my computer can’t handle it, so i only put books i know are written by/about/for lesbians)

bleeding earth by kaitlin ward

carmilla by joseph sheridan le fanu

desert of the heart by jane rule

disobedience by naomi alderman

fingersmith by sarah waters

fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe by fannie flagg

her body and other parties by carmen maria machado

living as a lesbian by cheryl clarke

milk and honey: a celebration of jewish lesbian poetry; julie r enszer

new and selected poems: volume one by mary oliver

new and selected poems: volume two by mary oliver

orlando: a biography by virginia woolf

oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson

patience and sarah by alma routsong

sappho in love: a play in two acts by carolyn gage

skin by kathe koja

stigmata: a tragedy in three acts by carolyn gage

stone butch blues by leslie feinberg

tender buttons by gertrude stein

the color purple by alice walker

the complete works of pat parker by pat parker 

the price of salt by patricia highsmith

the queen of swords by judy grahn

the queen of wands by judy grahn

the well of loneliness by radclyffe hall

the work of a common woman by judy grahn

the second coming of joan of arc and selected plays by carolyn gage

the spindle and other lesbian fairy tales by carolyn gage

tipping the velvet by sarah waters

west wind by mary oliver

when i arrived at the castle by emily carroll

winter hours by mary oliver

maybe not quite what you were looking for:

a passion for friends: towards a philosophy of female affection by janice g. raymond (i know it’s controversial but i like the lesbian continuum theory, and this plays right into it)

compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence by adrienne rich (the original, see above)

women who become men: albanian sworn virgins by antonia young

voices from the land; written by michigan womyn’s music festival community

other recommendations are very welcome!