#BUTCHFEMME!!!

[pintura]

I don’t ask for much. Or for anything.

[cambieart]

Caitvi, Butchfemme

[sapphicides]

the women of america were once promised that butch dykes would be lurking in all corners of society, ready to corrupt our minds and turn us all gay. what ever happened to that. where are the butches uncle sam.

[katieaki]

I’m afraid that when I say “my butch,” people, especially straight people, are hearing “my daddy.” That’s fine for many. But when I say “my butch”, what I mean is:

[moonlightsapphic]

I learned a lot today from Obviously Queer’s video essay “FEMME: Lesbian History, Identity, Politics and Invisibility” and femmebis’ “The “Lesbian-Only Term” Myth: A Comprehensive Historical Essay on ‘Butch’ and ‘Femme’ ”.

[aerithpilled]

the butch/femme scene of 1990s san francisco by chloe sherman

[efemmera-archive]

Smith College Girls for i-D magazine, 2004.

Photographed by Richard Kern

[sunfloowerlatte-art]

butchfemme knight + princess…

prints here

[abbaquin]

reminder to give your butch forehead kisses

[leonor777]

Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me. (Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg)

[kay-claire]

This idea was all I could think about while taking my dog for a walk so I had to drop everything and draw it

[kittycarabiner]

i ran to tumblr to post this because i knew you guys would understand

[sapphicides]

lesbianism as shown by @sweatermuppet

[thatgarden]

I really wish butchhood wasn't conflated with being a protector so much, honestly.

I'm a very vulnerable butch. I'm chronically ill, invisibly physically disabled, and have a lot of mental health issues. My masculinity doesn't inherently make me more strong or powerful.

But there's a huge amount of butch culture built on butches being protective of femmes, or just being strong and working in very physically laborious jobs. It feels disheartening to be locked out of a major part of my culture, just because I'm disabled.

So here's to all the disabled butches who want, or are expected to, be strong because toxic masculinity has taught us the mascs are the protectors, but we can't be.

We're the ones who need people to slow down for us. We're the ones who need to sit down and catch our breath after walking a bit. We're the ones who need help. And that doesn't make us any less butch.

[genspo]

femme lesbians with fucked up makeup!! femme lesbians in sweatpants and messy hair!! femme lesbians that spend most days working a minimum wage job or smoking pot!! femme lesbians wearing jeans and a t shirt!!

femme lesbians are not all coquette pink princesses and i feel like that’s all i see on social media these days.. make some noise for messy femme lesbians with messy lives!!