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anyways when hilary swank came out in that fucking backwards hat i laughed. i fucking laughed. imagine having a character design so immediately recognizable because shes the only character in an entire tv show that is constantly wearing a hat. as soon as she walked in i barked HAT in the chat like some kind of fucked up dog. character design of all time. perry the platypus level of character design.
Melissa was a freak, is a freak, and always will be a freak. She wanted feral Shauna and now sheβs married to the daughter of the woman she killed? Thatβs actually INSANE. Like girl your high horse needs to be much much lower
Nat saying goodbye to Coach Ben via his bag in the airplane broke me
lottie: *literally kills a man*
the rest of the yellowjackets: wtf
shauna: [sicko voice] yesss...haha yesss
trans lesbians enrich lesbianism. trans lesbians are an important part of lesbian culture and community.
plain text: (in the gradient color scheme of the trans and lesbian flag) trans lesbians enrich lesbianism. trans lesbians are an important part of lesbian culture and community.
doodled custard and pupcake from strawberry shortcake with markers today
Not to be that person, but if you remember this, how's that newfound back pain going for ya babe
i really should save money but all i want to do is buy trinkets
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table of contents: books; anthologies, history, novels, erotica, photography. films; movies, documentaries, shorts. miscellaneous; dissertations, articles, etc. note: everything (minus a few) has a link to access the media! if i am able to find the missing links i will attach them along with adding new content. there are a couple things that are not specifically butchfemme, but i kept them because i feel that they fit. enjoy!
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ΰ¨ΰ§ A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle
ΰ¨ΰ§ Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity by ChloΓ« Brushwood Rose, Anna CamilleriΒ
ΰ¨ΰ§ Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender by Sally R. Munt, Cherry Smyth
ΰ¨ΰ§ Butch is a Noun byΒ S. Bear Bergman
ΰ¨ΰ§ Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go by Michelle Gibson,Β Deborah Meem
ΰ¨ΰ§ Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls by Laura Harris, Elizabeth CrockerΒ
ΰ¨ΰ§ Lesbian Culture: The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present by Julia Penelope, Susan Wolfe
ΰ¨ΰ§ On Butch and Femme: A Compiled Readings by I.M. Epstein
ΰ¨ΰ§ Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme by Ivan Coyote,Β Zena Sharman
ΰ¨ΰ§ Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins... by Kath Weston
ΰ¨ΰ§ S/he by Minnie Bruce Pratt
ΰ¨ΰ§ The Femme Mystique by Leslea Newman
ΰ¨ΰ§ The Femme's Guide To The Universe by Shar Rednour
ΰ¨ΰ§ The Lesbian Erotic Dance: Butch, Femme, Androgyny, and Other Rhythms by JoAnn Loulan
ΰ¨ΰ§ The Little Butch Book by Leslea Newman
ΰ¨ΰ§ The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader by Joan Nestle
ΰ¨ΰ§ Tomboys!: Tales of Dyke Derring-Do by Lynne Y. Fletcher, Karen Barber
ΰ¨ΰ§ Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote
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NOTE β there is more history content in the film section as well as historical fiction in the novel section!!!
ΰ¨ΰ§ Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Butch-Femme Fashion and Queer Legibility in New York City, 1945β1969 by Alix Gitner
ΰ¨ΰ§ Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, And Theology Before Stonewall by Marie Cartier
ΰ¨ΰ§ Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community by Andrea Weiss
ΰ¨ΰ§ Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madaline D. Davis
ΰ¨ΰ§ GLBT Historical Society: Museum & Archives β general LGBT archives, but a very important and great source
ΰ¨ΰ§ Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights: 1945-1990: An Oral History by Eric Marcus
ΰ¨ΰ§ Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life In Twentieth-Century America byΒ Lillian Faderman
ΰ¨ΰ§ Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability byΒ Patricia White
ΰ¨ΰ§ Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion by Eleanor Medhurst
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ΰ¨ΰ§ A Crystal Diary: A Novel by Frankie Hucklenbroich β The razor-edged, compelling, often wryly humorous story hustles us from the blood-and-beer-drenched corners of her St. Louis meat-packing district '50s youth, through the sex-soaked Hollywood alleys of her '60s baby butch years, into the druggy metropolis of '70s San Francisco.
ΰ¨ΰ§ Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon β Beeboo, a butch 17-year-old farm girl newly arrived in New York after she is driven from her Wisconsin home town for wearing drag to the State Fair. Befriended by the gay Jack Mann, a father-figure with a weakness for runaways, Beebo sets out to find love.
ΰ¨ΰ§ Departure from the Script by Jae β AnΒ aspiring actress meeting photographer, femme meeting butchΒ in this light-hearted lesbian romance set in Hollywood.
ΰ¨ΰ§ Doc and Fluff: The Dystopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker by Pat Califia β Set in the bleak and not-too-distant future of a culture in its death throes, Doc and Fluff careens through the lives of a pair of outlaw women struggling to survive on the road.
ΰ¨ΰ§ Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo β America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her fatherβdespite his hard-won citizenshipβLily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.
ΰ¨ΰ§ Lucy and Mickey by Red Jordan Arobateau β Lesbian life in the late 1950s, early '60s; and a powerful romance & sexual drama between two females, Lucy & Mickey.
ΰ¨ΰ§ Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller β In an early puritanical New England town, a butch and femme fall in love and discover they can run a farm and live together away from the world that sought to limit them and their love.
ΰ¨ΰ§ Satan's Best by Red Jordan Arobateau β volume #1 in the ten book lesbian biker series THE OUTLAW CHRONICLES. In this action-packed novel we are introduced to the gang of raunchy and glamorous biker women, including the 5 Warlords who run the Outlaws. Enter beautiful blond butch Angelβlone rider on the storm.
ΰ¨ΰ§ Stone Butch Blues by LeslieΒ Feinberg β The life of Jess Goldberg, a working-class Jewish butch lesbian in New York from the 1940s through the 1970s.
ΰ¨ΰ§ The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall β The timeless struggle of a butch and femme couple to be accepted by "polite" society. This now classic was banned outright upon publication in 1928.
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ΰ¨ΰ§ Back To Basics: A Butch-Femme Anthology byΒ Theresa Szymanski
ΰ¨ΰ§ Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch Femme Erotica byΒ Tristan Taormino
ΰ¨ΰ§ The Harder She Comes: Butch/Femme Erotica by D.L. King
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ΰ¨ΰ§ Butch/Femme edited by M.G. Soares
ΰ¨ΰ§ Butch: Not Like The Other Girls by SD Holman
ΰ¨ΰ§ Dagger On Butch Women byΒ Lily Burana, Roxxie Linnea Due
ΰ¨ΰ§ Love Bites byΒ Del LaGrace Volcano
ΰ¨ΰ§ Making Out: The Book Of Lesbian Sex And Sexuality by Zoe Schramm-Evans, Laurence Jaugey Paget
ΰ¨ΰ§ Nothing But The Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image byΒ Susie Bright, Jill Posener
ΰ¨ΰ§ The Butch/Femme Photo Project by Wendi Kali
ΰ¨ΰ§ The Drag King Book by Del LaGrace Volcano, Judith "Jack" Halberstam
ΰ¨ΰ§ The Femme's Guide to the Universe by Shar Rednour
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ΰ¨ΰ§ A Complicated Queerness: Living Femme in a Dyke Community dir. Johanna Buchignani, Emily Hillman β short film: This film investigates the ways in which gender, power and sexism are lived and experienced within the San Francisco Mission dyke community. The documentary aims to promote awareness of and discussion about the prejudice and invisibility of queer femininity, in order to build alliances and healthier communities.
ΰ¨ΰ§ Before Stonewall (1984) dir. Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg β documentary: The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement.
ΰ¨ΰ§ Bound (1996) dir. The Wachowskis β thriller/crime: Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet.
ΰ¨ΰ§ Gay Tape: Butch and Femme (1985) byΒ Cecilia Dougherty β short: The Gay Tape brings βa little fine-tuningβ to the question of representation, honing in on the subjective particularities of the butch-femme dynamic as experienced by members of Doughertyβs local Bay Area dating pool.Β
ΰ¨ΰ§ If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) dir.Β Jane Anderson,Β Anne Heche,Β Martha Coolidge β romance/drama: This anthology of short films tells the stories of three lesbian couples - who live in the same house at different periods of time - who are at a crossroads in their lives. The second story includes a motorcycle riding, leather jacket and tie wearing butch, Amy.
ΰ¨ΰ§ StormΓ©: The Lady of the Jewel Box (1987) dir. Michelle Parkerson β documentary/short film: Through archival clips, StormΓ© DeLarverie, bodygaurd of a women's club and former drag king looks back on the grandeur of the Jewel Box Revue and its celebration of pure entertainment in the face of homophobia and segregation.
ΰ¨ΰ§ Stud Life (2012) dir. Campbell X β romance/drama: JJ, a lesbian, works as a wedding photographer with Seb, a gay man who is her best friend. After JJ falls in love with a gorgeous diva, her friendship with Seb becomes strained, and she may be forced to choose between Seb and her lover.
ΰ¨ΰ§ The Aggressives (2005) dir. Daniel Peddle β documentary: The Aggressives is an exposΓ© on the subculture of masculine presenting people of color and their femme counterparts. Filmed over five years in New York City, the featured subjects share their dreams, secrets, and deepest fears.
ΰ¨ΰ§ The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye β romance/comedy: An aspiring black lesbian filmmaker researches an obscure 1930s black actress billed as the Watermelon Woman.
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ΰ¨ΰ§ A Butch Road Map by Ivan Coyote β spoken word
ΰ¨ΰ§ A Dyke's Bike Repair Handbook byΒ Jill Taylor β motorcycle care/repair handbook, this one is so random i just love it lol
ΰ¨ΰ§ Are Butch and Fem Working-Class and Anti-Feminist? by Sara L. Crawley β article
ΰ¨ΰ§ Butch Between the Wars: A Pre-History of Butch Style in Twentieth-Century Literature, Music, and Film by Karen Allison Hammer β dissertation
ΰ¨ΰ§ Feminizing Theory: Making Space for Femme Theory by Rhea Ashley Hoskin β thesis
ΰ¨ΰ§ Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls by Laura Harris, Elizabeth Crocker
ΰ¨ΰ§ Lesbian Identity and the Politics of Butch-Femme by Amy Goodloe β paper/review
ΰ¨ΰ§ Lineage To My Femme Foremothers byΒ A.N. β zine
ΰ¨ΰ§ Lipstick & Dipstick's Essential Guide to Lesbian Relationships by Gina Daggett, Kathy Belge
ΰ¨ΰ§ Narrating and Negotiating Butch and Femme: Storying Lesbian Selves in a Heteronormative World byΒ Sara L. Crawley β dissertation
ΰ¨ΰ§ On the Appropriation of Femme from Lesbians Over Everything, a discussion between four femmes β article
ΰ¨ΰ§ The Misunderstood Gender: A Model of Modern Femme Identity by Heidi Levitt, Elisabeth Gerrish, Katherine Hiestand β study
ΰ¨ΰ§ The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman by Esther Newton
ΰ¨ΰ§ To All the Beautiful, Kick-Ass, and Fierce, Full-Bodied FemmesΒ by Ivan Coyote β spoken word
i was meaning to post this for when i hit 1k followers, but i somehow have already surpassed that. it is weird to think that i started this blog on january 27. thank you all so much for following and interacting. i hope you enjoy this list and my blog in general!!
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just started watching house and I thought yall were exaggerating but no. every episode is just like three wrong diagnoses that almost kill the patient and then house is like "he has underwater skunk herpes" and they give the guy a new butthole and he's cured. and then house chugs vicodin while talking about wanting to rail wilson.
gemstone sibs x sonny angels bc im obsessed with their stupid angel costumes in the s4 trailer
Whenever I think of Julius Caesar I think of that one quote about him said by Gaius Scribonius Curio where he was like heβs every womanβs man and every manβs woman
"Holy shit, Nat. What did you do?"
YELLOWJACKETS 3.06 "Thanksgiving (Canada)"
Van saying do you think mel has to wear jackieβs clothes when they make out? is WILD
When Other Tai came out to execute Ben and said βitβll be alrightβ to Van in the low voice all I could think of was this image
you KNOW the rest of the team is regretting not saving jackie when they could bc now the tasmanian devil and her little muppet hat gf are wreaking havoc everywhere they go π
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Sonny angel β₯
I forgot who made this but I love it so much!!
Iβve started my trinket obsession recently and itβs robbing me blind
