#cw d slur reclaimed

[breederbutch]

cw for d slur reclaimed, sexual content.

"Reclaiming femme... again" by Mary Frances Platt, featured in The Persistent Desire: a Femme-Butch Reader (1992)

ID below the cut. I also want to direct you to a section of a piece by Arlene Istar also in this collection, but I'm gonna link this here once I publish it separately so this isn't too long.

[ID: Scan of pages of a book. Title reads: "Reclaiming femme... again" in big text. Above that, slightly smaller text says "Mary Frances Platt". The story reads: "Yes, it's true: I was the type of young femme who managed the girls' basketball team in high school, just to be able to take in the sight of those butches parading their muscles up and down the court. I found Girl Scout camp to be femme heaven and reveled in being able to explore my athletic self and still maintain my femmeness. And, to my horror, I have to admit pushing Tina away from my breasts in the back seat of a Buick while attending Mount Saint Mary Seminary.

And then there was feminism ... Although I came out as a "gay" woman before reading The Feminine Mystique, the seventies brand of white feminism had me trimming my nails and cutting off my hair. Soon I was outfitted in farmer jeans and high tops. And still I was told by my 'sisters' that I didn't 'look like a dyke' (read: I didn't look butch).

I began to lead two lives — one as an outrageous, skirted, lipsticked femme while I worked in and traveled with carnivals, and another as an imitation butch back home in the women's community. Eventually, I pulled the pieces of my being back together and proclaimed boldly, 'I am a working-class lesbian femme.'

So, I had maybe six years of revelling in unleashing my seductive femme self when, as lives go, mine changed: slowly at first and then more dramatically.

Recurring back pain and limited range of motion were finally diagnosed. Soon after came decreased mobility. No more mountain climbing. No long mall walks in search of the perfect piece of sleaze. No more standing against kitchen walls while being gloriously fucked by some handsome butch. I stopped using alcohol and drugs, became ill with what is now known as CFIDS (Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome), and began to use a three-wheeled power chair.

The more disabled I became, the more I mourned the ways my sexual femme self had manifested through the nondisabled me: cruising at the local lezzie bar, picking a dyke whose eyes refused to stray from mine,

dancing seductively, moving all of me for all of her. Cooking: love and suggestion neatly tucked into the folds of a broccoli quiche. Serving my date in varying, sleazy clothing, removing layers as the meal and our passion progressed. And making love ... feeling only pleasure as my hips rose and fell under the weight of her. Accomplishment and pride smirked across my face as her wrists finally submitted to the pressure of strong, persistent hands. These are the ways I knew to be femme, to be the essence of me.

It's been five years now since I began using a wheelchair. I am just awakening to a new reclamation of femme. Yes, I still grieve the way I was, am still often unsure how this femme with disabilities will act out her seduction scenes. I still marvel when women find passion amidst the chrome and rubber that is now part of me.

There have been numerous dates, lovers, relationships, sexual partners, and flirtations along the way. Cindy, Jenny, Ellie, Emma, Diane, Dorothy, Gail, June, Clove, Lenny, Cherry, Diana, Sarah I, and Sarah II. You have all reminded me in your own subtle or overt, quiet or wild ways that I am desirable, passionate, exciting, wanted.

Yes, I am an incredibly sexual being. An outrageous, loud-mouthed femme who's learning to dress, dance, cook, and seduce on wheels; finding new ways to be gloriously fucked by handsome butches and aggressive femmes. I hang out more with the sexual outlaws now — you know, the motorcycle lesbians who see wheels and chrome between your legs as something exciting, the leather women whose vision of passion doesn't exclude fat, disabled me.

Ableism tells us that lesbians with disabilities are asexual. (When was the last time you dated a dyke who uses a wheelchair?) Fat oppression insists that thin is in and round is repulsive. At times, these voices became very loud, and my femme, she hid quietly amidst the lies.

Now, my femme is rising again. The time of doubt, fear, and retreat has passed. I have found my way out of the lies and the oppression and moved into a space of loving and honoring the new femme who has emerged. This lesbian femme with disabilities is wise, wild, wet, and wanting. Watch out." End image description.]

we need so much more love for androgynous femme dykes who don’t fit a very narrow idea of what it is to be a femme. femmes don’t always wear makeup, shave, wear skirts or dresses, and might seem masculine by society’s standards and I love them so much.

this should go without saying but this goes doubly for femmes of color & trans femmes. society sometimes questions and invalidates your presentation & femininity for not fitting into the narrative that is pushed and you are loved the way you are 🧡

[aesthetic-otd]

Today's aesthetic is dykecore

[hersquishydyke]

Reblog if you love dyke dick

[spriinglocked]

dyke strider

hes so cistrans bigender gaybian

me fr

[haunted-thing]

here are some various dyke flags I made since I’m finally more happy and comfortable with my identity now!

transmasculine dyke

transfeminine dyke

transneu dyke

non-binary dyke

my interpretation of boy/man dyke

[image id:

First row: The left flag has five equal stripes. The colors from top to bottom are dark blue, bright blue, turquoise, light green, and pale green. The left flag is black with three diagonal stripes going from the bottom left to top right and a white downwards-facing axe on the right side. The colors from top left to bottom right are dark blue, turquoise, and light green.

Second row: The left flag has five equal stripes. The colors from top to bottom are pale yellow, light orange, pink, bright purple, and dark indigo. The left flag is black with three diagonal stripes going from the bottom left to top right and a white downwards-facing axe on the right side. The colors from top left to bottom right are bright purple, pink, and light orange.

Third row: The left flag has five equal stripes. The colors from top to bottom are bright indigo, dark indigo, dark purple, dark magenta, and magenta. The left flag is black with three diagonal stripes going from the bottom left to top right and a white downwards-facing axe on the right side. The colors from top left to bottom right are dark magenta, dark indigo, and bright

indigo.

Fourth row: The left flag has five equal stripes. The colors from top to bottom are dark grey, black, dark blue, indigo, and bright purple. The left flag is black with three diagonal stripes going from the bottom left to top right and a white downwards-facing axe on the right side. The colors from top left to bottom right are dark blue, indigo, and bright purple.

Fifth row: The left flag has five equal stripes. The colors from top to bottom are dark blue, blue, dull teal, turquoise, and light turquoise. The left flag is black with three diagonal stripes going from the bottom left to top right and a white downwards-facing axe on the right side. The colors from top left to bottom right are dark blue, blue, and turquoise. End IDs.]

tagging: @accessmogai & @mogai-sunflowers !

[mogayis-socool]

🌊 Butch, futch and femme dyke flags

[PT: Butch, futch and femme dyke flags. End PT.]

inpired by @disastergay's dyke flag

[luxdraconia]

to clarify. we do collectively identify as a fagdyke gaybian alongside the cistrans and aroallo labels. though we will tag whenever we say them bc i know some people are iffy about them ^^

[steelminds]

various twt doodle reqs ... and a weird guy in the top corner dunno who that is

[ddragayn]

RADIANT JOY

[marrmora]

Fugg I f33l mys3lf losing front to Spid3r Dyk3 n Fish F4G

⭐️L4T4PI3

[tricksteroftheheart]

doing a run and it was like. just me, a rando shelly and toodles, and then my cosmo who died the floor before and was watching. im trying to distract on a blackout gift shop floor with only dog plush, veemote, and one heart to my name.

i have twisted cosmo on my tail. i turn a corner, im in the maze area. crackling noises. twisted sprout. its really really tight and secluded, so i turn a corner.

its a dead end.

twisted cosmo takes a bite out of me. it all goes black. in my despair, i scream out into the void, 'I TRAPPED MYSELF.'

and my fuckass cosmo has the gall to say to me 'canon accurate'

[overly dramatic voice] ill have you know i did not trap myself in canon !! also thats soooo hurtful im soooooo hurt

look at this faggot. doing his gay giggles at my distress. time to bake him again /th

(this is all /j im being dramatic on purpose)

at the very least i died to cosmo so honestly this is a certified win

@leafy-pup i know what you are

EDIT: while typing this the internet went out for like two hours. i think dandy is after me /j

[dunmeshi]

don't get what's up with people getting upset over others tagging their posts with cws for reclaimed when they're using reclaimed slurs. just respect people who don't want to encounter them casually it's not that hard

[hersquishydyke]

Content warning - Slur usage (D slur) - Reclaimed

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To all the boys thought calling me a dyke in school was bad....

Why yes, thank you. I'm the biggest fucking dyke you'll ever see.

Now let me get back to drooling over my wonderful & hot girlfriend

you wish you had & actually being respectful towards women.

[jelliclebellsthatjelliclesring]

As an enby, fucking mood!

[haunted-thing]

abinary dyke

transxenic dyke

[Image IDs:

First row: The left flag has five equal stripes. The colors from top to bottom are off-white, yellow, light orange, red-orange, and red-magenta. The left flag is black with three diagonal stripes going from the bottom left to top right and a white downwards-facing axe on the right side. The colors from top left to bottom right are red-orange, light orange, and yellow.

Second row: The left flag has five equal stripes. The colors from top to bottom are dark teal, teal, pastel green, bright green, and darker green. The left flag is black with three diagonal stripes going from the bottom left to top right and a white downwards-facing axe on the right side. The colors from top left to bottom right are teal, bright green, and pastel green. End IDs.)

requested by @starznvoidz ! tagging @accessmogai & @liomtext for da ids :3

additional tags: @mogai-sunflowers !

[mogayis-socool]

🌊 Transman and transwoman dyke flags

[PT: 🌊 Transman and transwoman dyke flags. End PT.]

inpired by @disastergay's dyke flag