#lesbian elders

[lesbianlenses]

Our lesbian elders in their younger days were LIVING IT TF UP at this time in the early 00s, 90s, 80s. We owe it to them to at least try.

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source : Ceremonies Of The Heart; Celebrating Lesbian Unions - Edited by Becky Butler

[stormysapphic]

lesbians over 60, photographs by elana freedom, published in common lives/lesbian lives no. 15/16, june 1985

[shapelytimber]

Hello stranger and welcome, to my lesbian art master post

Tumblr gifted me a blaze, and I had no idea what to do with it for the longest time. But then it hit me... I could just repost every sapphic art I did in 2023. So enjoy !

Sith Milfs

Ikkons magazine cover illustration

My 50yo comic teacher doesn't know what lesbians are

Y2K Star wars with mean lesbian Maul

A taste of faith

Pussy adventure

A visit from the moth lady

Third animation of the vampire ladies

Girls night out !!

Wine wives

Bull cowgirl and magical cowboy

Butch Colombo having a divorce with a typewriter

Stand high lesbians

[PRINTS] - [COMMISSIONS]

Hey thank you for taking the time to scroll to the end ! It means a lot to me <3

[mx-montero]

I’m finally seeing some butch Wolverine art on screen but some of you guys aren’t going butch enough. I need butch Logan to be a whiskey-swiggin’, cigar-chewin’, card-carryin’, he/him-havin’, capital “B” Butch lesbian. Logan “The X-Man” Wolverine has an adamantium strap that makes you ugly cry while he blows cigar smoke in your face. That is the butch Wolverine we deserve.

[ahtal-ka]

bonus points to whoever knows which stupid post i got this from

[that-butch-archivist]

"Ruth Ellis, Golden Threads Celebration 1995," from the documentary Golden Threads

source: The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs & Writings on Love, edited by Beatrix Gates

[cowboyjen68]

The day before Christmas Eve, with the help of many, I met a new lesbian friend off of TikTok. She needed a new car battery and I know how to change a battery and found out she was only an hour away! Got to meet an elder and break out my tools and get her some much needed supplies! My community, on and off line, is nothing short of incredible. New battery installation complete!!

[lux1fer]

transfiguration

[skyrimlesbians]

when girls on hinge say ‘you’re so pretty’ or ‘wyd’ but my gorgeous vampire wife alva is constantly saying ‘we’re the only people in skyrim worth loving’

[peony-plum]

Dragonborn: I’ll braid your hair 💕

[cowgirls-blues]

One of them knows how to install a doorknob.

[cemeterygrace]

i might not know a lot, but by god am i gonna be a queer elder. the world is doing it’s damndest to try and kill me before i get there, but i am going to make it. i will be queer in my 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s and i will not be invisible.

[genderqueerdykes]

my theatre teacher is a nonbinary lesbian! they got top surgery a year ago and go by they/them :))

oh HELL YEAH!!!!!! GOOD FOR THEM I'M GLAD THEY WERE ABLE TO DO THAT!! NON BINARY LESBIANS REALLY ARE OUT HERE LIVING OUR BEST LIVES

[penis-flytrap]

[thenatureofbutch]

And THIS is why it is so special to be in a time where we can listen to our elders speak openly. So we better take advantage and LISTEN.

Sometimes I get comments or asks or whatever from the identity police about who can be called butch.

Well, dear sweets, firstly get to know your history, watch this video to the end, respect your elders and then digest the fact that nature is as it does. So, you staring at a natural truth, and telling it, that it's wrong, only shows something unnatural of you- work on it my babycakes.

You can also read more of what I personally (so not those featured in the above video) have to rant say if you feel so inclined...

I myself remember how butchness was well known as a spectrum of how masculinity looked on those who were not cis men. I remember how that spectrum included butches who would further their masculinity/Adorn their masculinity with hormones/surger(ies), I remember how butcheness extended to those who were queer but not lesbian, and their role within the butch world was never questioned or even pondered at. Because to be seen in the world as butch, is a very specific thing, with specific ostrasisations, and specific ways to understand what gender is and specific ways of being made to feel ugly for not adhering to the way the west pictures women. To be butch is a very specific feeling starting in our earliest memories for most of us we have that feeling before we even develop sexual desire, because its entirely its own thing, and it creates a very specific bond. A bond of butchhood.

I was very young when witnessing just a little of this time period, the solidarity within it still was strong enough to hit me and captivate me. It's been sad to see just how much of that has changed into a relentless need for over specification, dissecting the community left right and centre, policing eachother. Do we not remember the enchanted connection of anti police anti state moral with queerness? Please let us do better, please let us help one another do better.