#femme of color

[highfemmealbertano]

People around me don’t really treat me as like a femme lesbian. Everyone always thinks im really masculine even though I present as pretty feminine most of the time. Like they’re genuinely surprised when I show interest in something traditionally feminine even though I wear dresses and makeup all the time. It doesn't really matter but it still bothers me.

It’s probably racism innit?

[golswia]

divorcee meetup

[aerithcloud]

Mizuki Akiyama is one of the most realistic portrayals of a trans-feminine person in any media and the event story method Project Sekai has of telling its casts story really benefits Mizuki's arc. Her issues have been subtly shown and implied since the game started 4 years ago.

She doesn't feel comfortable going to school due to the way kids in her class and in the school generally bully her for her gender presentation. Mizuki tries to not let it bother her with her generally friendly personality and acts as if it doesn't bother her.

Outside of An and later Akito she doesn't feel comfortable getting closer to anyone in her real life, out of fear of them finding out who she truly is. It's due to this that her time on Niigo helped her figure herself out over time.

Due to contacting each other through Nightcord, Mizuki doesn't have the same fear initially that they'll find out she's trans and isn't 'like them'. That is until they get closer as a group and start meeting up in person. Ena specifically gets close to Mizuki and starts worrying.

Ena can tell Mizuki has a secret that weighs on her, but she doesn't want to be forceful about getting Mizuki to tell her. Mizuki is grateful for this and spends a lot of time watching Mafuyu, Ena and Kanade grow over their time as a group.

More and more, she feels she has to open up to them about who she is or she'll never progress as a person in the same way they have. She works up the courage to at least tell Ena over time to pay her back for her kindness and friendship.

Unfortunately, she gets outed in the worst way possible by Ena hearing a classmate misgender Mizuki and make fun of her for being friends with Mizuki. This makes Mizuki panic and worry the worst without hearing Ena out.

It's realistic, and the way Mizuki's issues have been portrayed so far are realistic to the fear trans and non binary people struggle with opening up about their identity to others. Out of fear of being treated differently or abused in the same way others did to them in the past.

Anyway, all of this to say Mizuki Akiyama is one of my favorite characters in general and I'm glad Project Sekai treated her character with care and respect the entire time the game has been going on for.

[werewolfaday]

day 105

[elysianmadness]

Happy lesbian visibility week/day to every lesbian around the world! I hope you're going to have a wonderful week, wherever you are. Your lesbianism is perfect and needed in the world. In this household, we love and appreciate the diversity of the lesbian experience <3

[androgynealienfemme]

"I was born thirty eight years ago and raised to be a nice Chinese girl. But nice Chinese girls don't grow up to be dykes and rebels. And I turned out to be both.

I grew up on silence. Though I was part of a large extended family, we ate in silence. There was no conversation or laughter, just the sound of soup spoons and chopsticks against rice bowls. I was not encouraged to talk, express emotions, or ask questions. I grew up with a heritage of silence.

I was a girl child, the first born in a traditional Chinese family, raised to be seen but not heard, raised to excel in school but not be curious, raised to be someone's wife but not to be a person of my own. When I was growing up in England, Hong Kong, and San Francisco, I read everything I could get my hands on, but none of the books spoke of my own experience. I started writing when I was eleven years old to fill the silence and to turn the years of rejection into affirmation.

You're probably wondering what the hell any of this h as to do with sex. The answer is- plenty. What I write is shaped by my history and experience as both a Chinese woman and as a lesbian.

Chinese is my first language. But I was fluent only in the words my parents deemed it necessary for me to know. I was certainly not taught the words for breast, cunt, ass, or orgasm. There were no words for sex; therefore, sex did not exist.

I came out as a lesbian when I was twenty-one, but I didn't start writing about sex until almost a decade later. Sure, I wrote love poems, but I never wrote about sex. I was, after all, a nice Chinese girl and we didn't''t talk about things like that. --

I have always loved women passionately. I love the way a femme moves across a dance floor, knowing all eyes are focused on her. I love the hard eye-to-eye look from another butch as she sizes me up as competition- or her next conquest. I love the fluid seduction in a femmes eyes. I love the long line of her neck, her delicate earlobes and soft lips, painted some shade of red or unpainted but deeply flushed from having been kissed long and hard. Many times. I love the curve of her breast, the hardness of her nipples, the softness of her stomach, the fullness of her ass, her legs with a faint covering of hair or long and sleek in black silk stockings. I love the strength of her in her thighs, the firmness of her biceps, the feel of her forearms as she takes me. I love the smell of her heat and the place of pleasure between her legs. I love her ankles and her delicate toes and her soft instep where I run my tongue until my teeth are gripping her Achilles tendon. I love the smell of her, the taste of her, the feel of her, the sight of her. I love women passionately.

--

Some women do not attend my theater or literary events for fear of supporting my sexual politics. I have been accused of recruiting. Never mind that I have a long history of writing, community organizing, and activism. Now I am judged solely for my leather sexuality. It's never been easy being different, but I have always survived. I will continue to speak out, write truths, and make waves. My countryman Mao Zedong wrote, "Dare to struggle, dare to win." I say, dare to write. Dare to be different. And who says nice Chinese girls don't talk about sex?"

"Who Says we Don't Talk About Sex?" Kitty Tsui, The Persistent Desire, (Edited by Joan Nestle) (1992)

[menace-bitch]

Edwige Fenech in “All Colors of the Dark”

[poppingmary]

Ziegfeld Girl Muriel Finley

[peaceandlove26]

intricate horse yuri map + a version of fluttershy who exists to me alone

[butchharts]

are we fucking with the fit today

[guillotin3d]

[kafkasdiariies]

Zendaya attends the "Challengers" Paris Photocall.

[gargoylelads]

The Goddess of Stories

& the scanned line art version

First time that I realized convert brightness to opacity was a thing (is an idiot)

[campgender]

[Quoting Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha] “My bed, heaped with cushions, is my office, my world headquarters. My life is arranged around my bed. There is good art to look at, a window, my vibrator plugged in, a stack of books within easy reach. I lie in it thinking of all my other crip poet friends who spend most of their days in bed too. Draped in pillows, red and plum sheets … curtained by plum sari fabric. This is my place of power, the fulcrum, the place everything emerges from.” Black Power Naps takes the “useless” space of the tired femme’s bed and makes it lushly accessible for public use. And as Acosta and Sosa drape their sleep stations in velvet and chiffon, they literally “make room for the other dreams, the ones that are fertile ground for creating the versions of ourselves that thrive and live long lives.”

from The Color Pynk: Black Femme Art for Survival by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley (2022)

[thedeaddiscodame]

Zinetober let's gooooo!!!

Fold out version:

Credit to @modernbaseball for the beautiful post that this is based on!

[lgbtqtext]