#lesly stone

[starcanwreckedpulpparentspoll]

[murderonthedullexpress]

“Trapped”

Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg

@/lilboyblueish on Instagram

Poem by Keaton St. James (@boykeats)

I/Me/Myself - Will Wood

We Both Laughed In Pleasure by Lou Sullivan

cis people asking cis questions by Silas Denver Melvin (@sweatermuppet)

Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote

[sillystringpony]

the one where cheerilee knows

[biandevil]

At the thrift and I want to die (in more ways than one)

[femmepathy]

Leslie Feinberg in Outlaw (1994) directed by Alisa Lebow

available now on archive.org!

[blessedscavengers]

nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me

terfs fuck off

made in 2023

[slithymomerath]

“I am typing these words as June 2003 surges with Pride. What year is it now, as you read them? What has been won; what has been lost? I can’t see from here; I can’t predict. But I know this: You are experiencing the impact of what we in the movement take a stand on and fight for today. The present and past are the trajectory of the future. But the arc of history does not bend towards justice automatically—as the great Abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed, without struggle there is no progress . . .”

- Leslie Feinberg

[puc-puggy]

leslie feinberg uses the term "he-she" to describe hirself through this section of the book and discusses taking hormones with the other butches at multiple points throughout. at the time, "butch" included everything from masc lesbians to he/him lesbians to outright trans men.

events quickly progress from calling butches and femmes brainwashed to kicking butches out of meetings and bars for being gender traitors. hir decision to start HRT was so controversial in separatist lesbian circles that it ended zir long-term relationship.

this was the impact of a separatist feminist movement on queer icon leslie feinberg, who suffered immensely from the hostility of the queer community toward zirself and the ensuing isolation and lack of community support. because denying queer people access to their community is a death sentence. zie went on to write stone butch blues about this oft-ignored and maligned branch of the queer family.

we know that transandrophobia exists. one of the most important landmark queer texts discusses it extensively. we know that separatist rhetoric harms every single member of the queer community with a connection to masculinity (A LOT OF US). we have been on this merry-go-round before, and we already know it sucks. let's not go around again. let's get off

[beefybutchboy]

like i need this tattooed or framed my god!!

[giritina]

This is the part of Stone Butch Blues I think more people need to commit to memory

[marciies]

“did i survive? i guess i did. but only because i knew i might get home to you.”

—leslie feinberg, stone butch blues

[bisexual-coala]

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.

[antigonick]

The only recognition I can find in their eyes is that I am "other". I am different. I will always be different. I will never be able to nestle my skin against the comfort of sameness.

—Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

[sophieeeikli]

Cerulean Nights by Sophie E. Eikli, originally published in the first edition of Beloved Zine. Image ID in image description.

[butcharium]

What I saw there released tears I'd held back for years: strong, burly women, wearing ties and suit coats. Their hair was slicked back in perfect DAs. They were the handsomest women I'd ever seen.

- Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, p. 28

[fairy-switchblade]

“The moon is femme, child—high-in-the-sky femme—and don’t you forget it,”  - Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, 1993