#the essential dykes to watch out for

[fleetwoodworm]

Dykes to Watch Out For 251 - Desperate Measures

Alison Bechdel 1996

[just-a-little-frog]

reading the essential dykes to watch out for and shoutout to alison bechdel for saying boydyke rights !!

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[crackedpearl]

this might be a longshot but does anyone have a google drive link of the audiobook version of Alison Bechdel’s “The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For” I cancelled my audible subscription and the piece of shit audible wont let me listen to it without being subscribed

[basilsart]

I love u Alison Bechdel

[clarafordahwin]

Can I just say. Mo and Sydney. I am digging it so much.

[hamptercatapult]

I HAD TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THIS TOOOOO LMAO

everyone stop what they are doing and look at this gay porn spongebob in this dykes to watch out for comic

[oceanfuneral]

books that cost 89 reais here cost literally just 15 dollars to americans. i'm gonna start chewing my skin off

[chemsexholmes]

the essential dykes to watch out for

[bluastro-yellow]

I love comics I desperately need to read more comics ghhhhhrr

[boydyke]

I'm tired of support for masculine dykes not extending towards transfeminine masculine dykes. really, there's not a lot of support extended to transfeminine dykes at all. there's a lot of transmisogyny within dyke spaces, (courtesy of a lot of transmisogyny being within Society) & we need to address this. how come boydykes are only celebrated from a transmasc, tme angle? more than that, only defended from a gender essentialist, transfeminine exclusive angle-- "trans men should not be excluded from lesbian spaces due to their afab experience." check your biases & gender essentialism, if you defend 'boydykes' on the basis of gender essentialism, with exclusion of transfeminine gnc dykes. check yourself & your biases. ask yourself what your defense for transmasc lesbians implies in the inverse scenario, for trans women. watch your language, adapt accordingly, be inclusive of trans women for once.

there are butch trans women, trans women who identify with masculinity, trans women who identify as boy dykes. genderqueer tma dykes who identify with manhood and womanhood both. the human experience is a spectrum & for every hypothetical transmasc you can envision & support, there's a transfem out there too. so what is with the lack of support, the judgement, gatekeeping, the transmisogyny?

trans women are punished doubly for not conforming to & performing femininity. extend your support towards gnc trans women with just as much, if not more valor than you have been for the gnc tme.

or, yknow--just extend your support towards trans women. there's seemingly a lack of that in our community.

[rovensheres]

trackerbees broke up and instantly became 300x more compelling like. i've seen a lot talk of talk about kristen not being over tracker but like... tracker calling kristen out on her bullshit but then dating a carbon copy of kristen (but with money). kristen essentially calling tracker a sellout leading to tracker collapsing into her arms while her new girlfriend watches. TRACKER STILL BEING DEEPLY ATTRACTED TO KRISTEN. tracker calling KRISTEN'S name when she's in distress even though nara is right there. she is FAR from over kristen and i personally cannot wait to see the juicy dyke drama that arises from all of this

[txttletale]

wait whats wrong with stone butch blues? is it a similar situation as the transmisogynistic things in dtwof? also i feel like it’s mostly transmascs not cis lesbians who like it

nothing's wrong with it in particular just like nothing's wrong with dtwof (i have a copy of the essential dykes to watch out for sitting on my bookshelf within arm's reach as i write this!) -- i just find the particular type of person who preoccupies themself greatly with the lost glory of the (white, cis, usamerican) 80/early 90s queer scene and then gets extremely sanctimonious about it when other people do not share their reverence v. grating and it is funny when they are mad online

[waitineedaname]

WAIT I DIDN'T REALIZE IT'S BUTCH APPRECIATION DAY. swag.

barbers that don't balk when I ask for a butch haircut are heroes

[far-traveler-far-gone]

p. 42, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For, by Alison Bechdel

[duckprintspress]

Let’s Go Lesbians! 32 Books for Lesbian Visibility Day

TODAY! is Lesbian Visibility Day, the first day of Lesbian Visibility Week – April 26, 2024. We are, I’m sure you’re shocked to discover, celebrating with LOTS of lesbian books! 15 people contributed to making this list, all of us sharing our absolute faves, from graphic novels to epic novels, from memoirs to horror fiction, with explicit rep and implied. With this many awesome books to share, we’re prepared to guarantee that everyone who loves wlw lit can find something new to them on this amazing list!

Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa

Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T. Crenshaw

She Wears the Midnight Crown Anthology

Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake

The Scapegracers & The Scratch Daughters by H.A. Clarke

Spinning by Tillie Walden

The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Those Who Wait by Haley Cass

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough

From Here by Luma Mufleh

Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel

A Memory Called Empire & A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

Female General, Eldest Princess by Please Don’t Laugh

Clear And Muddy Loss of Love by Please Don’t Laugh

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

Can’t get enough books with lesbians? Yeah, us neither – this new list for 2024 is on top of THREE rec lists of titles featuring lesbians that we posted last year.

Lesbian Visibility Week Recs Part 1

Lesbian Visibility Week Recs Part 2

Duck Prints Press Short Stories with Lesbian Characters

You can also view this list (along with all our other wlw faves!) as a shelf on Goodreads!

See a book you want to buy? You can grab it through the Duck Prints Press Bookshop.org affiliate shop!

What are YOUR favorite reads with lesbian characters?