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June 27, 1925 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941) originally published: 1953

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they should invent a sunday that doesn’t have a monday right after it

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vita sackville-west in a letter to virginia woolf, february 9 1927 / virginia woolf’s response, february 16 1927

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nothing is worse than software that tells people when I’m online or when I read their message or when I’m typing something. I always want to be as unknowable in my silence as god

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sala de psicopatología, alejandra pizarnik

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Jane Austen, from a letter to her sister Cassandra Austen

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Mary Oliver, I Have Just Said Molly Malone Cook and Mary Oliver, from Our World

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Who were the lesbian blood sisters?

“Suddenly, the hospitals were full of lesbians who were volunteering. Volunteering to go into those rooms and help my friends who were dying. I remember being so moved by them because gay men hadn’t been too kind to lesbians. We’d call them ‘fish’ and make fun of the butch dykes in the bars – and yet, there they were.”

In the 80s, the AIDS crisis was devastating the world of GLBT people - as the acronym read at the time. Gay men were banned from donating blood, which was desperately needed by patients dying from AIDS. The fear around HIV was so great that doctors and nurses refused to even enter the rooms of AIDS patients. These patients were often abandoned by their families in their dying days. There was a crisis was in the GLBT community, and so lesbians stepped in.

Lesbians organized blood drives in order to give blood to AIDS patients who desperately needed it. These blood drives attracted dozens, if not hundreds of lesbians at a time who all donated their blood. They called themselves the Blood Sisters, and they organized regular blood drives for at least 4 years. HIV patients needed frequent blood transfusions due to anemia induced from the virus, and so lesbians provided this blood.

In addition to blood drives, lesbians also took place as physical caretakers for gay men with AIDS, who were often abandoned by their families and even nursing staff who refused to go into their rooms. Lesbians held hands, fed, and took care of them.

In order to honor the efforts of lesbians during the AIDS crisis, the GLBT acronym was changed to LGBT, with lesbians deliberately at the front. Lesbians were a crucial part of the fight against AIDS, and this change would immortalize it in our community.

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L'Apollonide, souvenirs de la maison close (2011), dir. Bertrand Bonello

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what doesn't kill you makes you stay on tumblr for 13 years and counting

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Abdulla Pashew, from "Union" (trans. Hemn Bakr & Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse), pub. Words Without Borders [ID'd]

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Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

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casual survey: reblog if you want to kiss a girl right now

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what do you mean you didn’t know i was unstable you met me on tumblr

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Heartbreaking: girl has to get out of bed

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Just a lesbian reading poetry to their gay lover (wish that was me).

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Ok. Let me be clear on something. I want love. I want it. But I don't need it. Because I'm still and will still live without it until it comes to me.