Tag: wlw

persona-engine:

raptorific:

My favorite experience on the internet was the time I saw a lesbian on a doctor who forum make a thread about her desire to see “a lesbian dalek.” There was this one dude who got SO ANGRY about it that she and a bunch of other users pulled up a bunch of references proving that Daleks have a concept of gender and use gendered language to identify one another, and how some Daleks (like the Cult of Skaro) are designed to understand and weaponize human emotion, and made this really compelling argument that a lesbian Dalek could exist without violating any of the show’s canon

And the dude just got like really upset and was finally like “HOW WOULD SHE KNOW WHICH OTHER DALEKS ARE WOMEN, THEY ALL WEAR IDENTICAL CASINGS” and this one poster who hadn’t said anything up to this point just said “you know other species besides daleks have women too” and he literally just responded with “AAAAAAAAARGH”

The best part though was that this dude clearly read every single thread on the board (and corrected everyone who said anything about anything), so this lady would occasionally mention her “lesbian Dalek OC” in passing and within a few hours he’d show up with an all-caps, multi-paragraph, misspelled, profanity-laden rant about how there can’t be a lesbian Dalek and how she should stop punishing him for “being a heterosexual”

it’s canon now

Contemporary sapphic books with happy endings

lbpqbooks:

* means non-white protagonist, $ means disabled protagonist, # means trans protagonist, % means aro/ace spectrum protagonist, & means protagonist of a marginalised religion (Jewish, Muslim, etc)
• Under the Lights – Dahlia Adler *

• Starting From Here – Lisa Jenn Bigelow
• Dare Truth or Promise – Paula Boock
• Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit – Jaye Robin Brown
• Between You & Me – Marisa Calin
• Style – Chelsea M. Cameron
• Fat Angie – E. e. Charlton-Trujillo $

• Lunaside – J. L. Douglas
• Annie on My Mind – Nancy Garden
• Being Emily – Rachel Gold #
• My Year Zero – Rachel Gold &
• The Flywheel – Erin Gough
• No One Needs to Know – Amanda Grace
• Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel – Sara Farizan *
• Ask Me How I Got Here – Christine Hepperman
• A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend – Emily Horner
• Ask the Passengers – A. S. King
• Everything Leads to You – Nina LaCour *

• You Know Me Well – Nina LaCour and David Levithan
• Taking Flight – Siera Maley
• Dating Sarah Cooper – Siera Maley
• Time It Right – Siera Maley
• Colorblind – Siera Maley
• On the Outside – Siera Maley
• Girl Friends – Milk Morinaga * (five volume manga)
• Kisses, Sighs and Cherry Blossom Pink – Milk Morinaga * (manga short story collection)
• This Is Where It Ends – Marieke Nijkamp *

• Keeping You a Secret – Julie Anne Peters
• She Loves You, She Loves You Not – Julie Anne Peters
• Lies My Girlfriend Told Me – Julie Anne Peters (protagonist’s ex girlfriend dies before the book starts)
• Boyfriends with Girlfriends – Alex Sanchez *
• Wandering Son – Takako Shimura *# (twelve volume manga)
• Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before – Karelia Stetz-Waters
• The Space Between – Michelle L. Teichman
• The Summer I Wasn’t Me – Jessica Verdi
• Afterworlds – Scott Westerfeld *%
• Dirty London – Kelley York
Please suggest books and I will update this!

makingqueerhistory:

Sophia Parnok, Russia’s Sappho

For our last article in this year’s women’s history month celebration we focus on a woman known throughout Russia as one of their first openly lesbian poets. Sophia Parnok was a Jewish poet born in Russia in 1885 and has grown a small reputation for being one of the first out lesbian poets in her home country. Though her work is not widespread, it is impactful. And while the government tried to curb that impact with censorship, today we will work to continue to spread that effect by sharing her story. (Read full article here)

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thislesbianthatlesbian:

thislesbianthatlesbian:

if you’re a trans lesbian and you’re reading this, you deserve the world. twerfs are gross and you are 100% a woman-born-woman, and a lesbian. nothing about you is male. you’re a woman, and you belong in the lesbian community. no twerf can change that fact.

-mod key

btw this is a post that you are welcome to reblog even if you aren’t a lesbian!! please reblog!!

Hey

dorianshavilliard:

If you’re a lesbian and use the split attraction model to define yourself, that’s okay.

If you’re a lesbian and mental illness makes it difficult for you to grasp your sexuality, that’s okay.

If you’re a lesbian and trauma has made you aro or ace, that’s okay.

If you’re a lesbian through trauma, that’s okay.

If you’re a nonbinary lesbian and your gender makes your grasp on your sexuality shaky, that’s okay.

You’re still a lesbian. You’re not fake or Lesbian Lite.

And if you’re a lesbian who found yourself through the split of attraction model but don’t feel you need to use it anymore, that’s okay too.

You’re enough. You’re real and you’re beautiful.

And you’re okay.