I'll Tell You When You Get Your Soft, Italicized Oh. (uquiz!!)

Zodiac Style from Seventeen Magazine, January 1995.

small collection of links for ldov

would encourage looking for these in local bookshops if you can, especially books by authors of colour

on butch/femme: compiled readings, compiled by i.m. epstein (collection of genres)

the persistent desire: a femme-butch reader, edited by joan nestle (collection of genres, register on archive.org or here is a pdf)

last train out of the city by ivan coyote (poem)

the only blak queer in the world by ellen van neervan (poem)

boots of leather, slippers of gold by elizabeth lapovsky kennedy and madeline gold (history, register on archive.org)

odd girls and twilight lovers by lillian faderman (history)*

the vintage book of international lesbian fiction, edited by joan nestle (fiction, register on archive.org or here is an epub)*

women on women: an anthology of american lesbian short fiction, edited by joan nestle and naomi holoch (fiction, register on archive.org)*

stone butch blues by leslie feinberg (fiction, cw r*pe, assault, police brutality)

beebo brinker series by ann brannon (pulp fiction, this is all five books in one)

notes of a crocodile by qiu miaojin (fiction)*

the color purple by alice walker (fiction, cw incest, r*pe)

tipping the velvet by sarah waters (fiction)

oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson (fiction)

zami by audre lorde (biomythography)*

s/he by minnie bruce pratt (memoir, register on archive.org)*

fun home by alison bechdel (graphic memoir)

epistemology of the closet by eve kosofsky sedgwick (lit theory)*

the T on chinese transmasculinity by jinghua qian (essay)

who says we don't talk about sex? by kitty tsui (essay, found in the persistent desire but this is my post so i'm adding it)

asterisk = things i haven't read but intend to

lmk if anything doesn't work i don't actually know how to use dropbox <3

as much as I hate the term “tumblr veteran,” I am one, so I made a uquiz about it. let me assign you an OTP. I’m so sorry.

let’s see paul allen’s mall-based outfit

DORA WAHLROOS, MOTIF FROM SAUVO, 1910.

"this reminded me of you" and "you reminded me of this" is such a warm thing to say to someone or even think because the former is 'i see you in every piece of the world i see' and the latter 'i see the world in you' and they're both so pretty

“the ending is always the same”

war of the foxes - richard siken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology

Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad: Joy Is Not Promised to You

“In a hundred years of movies, homosexuality has only rarely been depicted on the screen. When it did appear, it was there as something to laugh at, or something to pity, or even something to fear. These were fleeting images, but they were unforgettable, and they left a lasting legacy. Hollywood, that great maker of myths, taught straight people what to think about gay people… and gay people what to think about themselves.” (The Celluloid Closet, 1996)