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pins by Abprallen

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pins by Abprallen

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you’re not a pervert for wanting to be a girl but also if you want to be a girl who is a pervert that’s cool too

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queer dogz :3c

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Strapped Butch Oil Painting

By Suzzane Shifflett

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i made these pin button designs inspired by this lesbian graphic i found. i was tired of not having any bisexual butch stuff. if i feel like enough people want them i might make some and put them on Etsy.

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important stuff to remember in these trying times

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hot take: butches can’t be cops and butch at the same time. butch is a uniquely working class identity and cops are class traitors, especially queer cops.

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late night doodle to pin button :0 / an updated version of my most popular doodle

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hi there! fellow bi person here! i've seen your post about "butch" and "femme" *not* actually being lesbian-exclusive and i am really interested in learning more about this history. i don't know where to start though, so do you mind sharing links or giving pointers as what to search for? thanks so much in advance!

Hi! Of course! <3

Butch and femme identities come from a time where lesbian meant sapphic. Lesbian was an umbrella term back then as we didn't have the word bisexual used for people like us. If you liked women, you were a lesbian, didn't matter if you *exclusively* liked women or not. So, all sapphics used them and identified with them. Bisexuals were right beside lesbians building the butch and femme culture. Even after the word bisexual began being used, bisexual butches and femmes existed.

Here are some excerpts from historical queer books and videos. 1 2 3 (These books could be a good start)

Those identities are not even limited to only queer women. Even queer men use butch and femme.

From a New York Times article on butch existence by Kerry Manders, a butch writer, editor & photographer.

Selections from queer zines 'femmes unite!' (2007) and 'mutate' (1999)

The Butch Manual

I hope these help!

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A good while back I posted shitty snippets of this interview from my Kindle, but now I have some better-quality images of this interview.

Source: Dagger: On Butch Women (Edited by Lily Burana, Roxxie & Linnea Due) Passage: She Strips to Conquer: An Interview with J., Butch Sex Worker [pg 127-133 in the physical copy ; pg 128-134 on PDF )

Let this be known: Any SWERF/anti-sex work rhetoric will be fuckin blocked. Any shit given/spewed about this butch’s identity or the validity of it will be blocked.

I don’t have time for that today.

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I wish people talked about how alienating it is to be butch and bisexual.

Almost everyone acts as if it's only lesbians who can be butches and even the lesbians who know that butch is not exclusive to them don't bother educating fellow lesbians. It's up to us and when we do try to educate others, we get harassed by terfs and exclusionists saying that we are "stealing lesbian culture" as if bisexuals weren't right beside yall helping build butch femme culture.

Heck even the butch bisexuals who are vocally active in the butch side of the internet don't call themselves bisexual and butch proudly in fear of getting harassed for being openly themselves. It's so fucking sad. I wish we had more solidarity. From lesbians, other queer people and especially other bisexuals. I wish I wasn't made to feel so isolated from the community that is supposed to be accepting of me.

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I wish people talked about how alienating it is to be butch and bisexual.

Almost everyone acts as if it's only lesbians who can be butches and even the lesbians who know that butch is not exclusive to them don't bother educating fellow lesbians. It's up to us and when we do try to educate others, we get harassed by terfs and exclusionists saying that we are "stealing lesbian culture" as if bisexuals weren't right beside yall helping build butch femme culture.

Heck even the butch bisexuals who are vocally active in the butch side of the internet don't call themselves bisexual and butch proudly in fear of getting harassed for being openly themselves. It's so fucking sad. I wish we had more solidarity. From lesbians, other queer people and especially other bisexuals. I wish I wasn't made to feel so isolated from the community that is supposed to be accepting of me.

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here's to every bisexual who has had their bisexuality policed. here's to every bisexual whose defintion of bisexuality differs from people who try to define it for them. here's to every bisexual who gets told they're just straight. here's to every bisexual who gets denied access to queer spaces because they "look straight" or they're "in a straight relationship." here's to every bisexual gay and lesbian. here's to every bisexual butch and femme. here's to every bigender and genderfluid bisexual who has their identity questioned because of one or more of their genders. here's to every trans bisexual person whose bisexuality comes into question when they come out or start transition. here's to every bisexual who gets told they're bisexuality is "incorrect". here's to every bisexual who gets told their idea of bisexuality is actually pansexuality and they'd be better off identifying that way instead. here's to every bisexual of color who has their bisexuality questioned due to racism.

here's to every bisexual.