Anonymous asked:
hi! it's pretty cool to stumble upon the blog of a canadian radical feminist -- not that there aren't any, I just don't know about them I'm sure. I'm 22, also Canadian, am just learning about radical feminism, and just wanted to say you seem cool and have a great blog! :) (i'm not trying to be anonymous, I just don't have a tumblr!)
Omg hi!! There are a bunch of us, loml @smalldarlinglesbian being one of them! I know there have been some threads of Canadian radfems sounding off, I’d point to her blog as a starting point tho because I’m not on this blog much and I’m not very involved in the radfem tumblr scene. but I’m so happy you’re in a place of discovery rn!!
I’m proud of you! Keep seeking, and even if it’s on anon you’ve always got me here to have your back if you need!
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And now, some mountainous yonis courtesy of Mother Earth.
Anonymous asked:
ik this matters not and im overly passionate about it but. magenta is a girl. too.
IT ABSOLUTELY MATTERS, they're lesbians!! Thank you for bringing this good news
important announcement
there's no one I love more than @smalldarlinglesbian and you should be extremely jealous that I get to be her best friend
the hardest thing about volunteering at the Vancouver Women's Library's final day of operation is trying not to cry at every woman who comes in about it being their final day
Anonymous asked:
Do you know any good lesbian fiction?
hiya!! sorry for the delay in answering. i haven’t read toooo too many but here are some recommendations you may not have heard of! fair warning: i’m terrible at summarizing books. these synopses will be awful. also some of these have some challenging content so let me know if you want more details or content warnings or anything.
jeanette winterson
- i don’t have a particular book to push here because i find them very different from each other and each so unique, i think you just have to read some plot summaries and dive into the one that draws you first to get a taste for her incredible, poetic writing and the care with which she treats all of her books. most if not all of her books involve/are about lesbians. jeanette winterson is my hero and my favourite author (and i know it’s not what you asked for, but her autobiography why be happy when you can be normal? is also amazing)
the gilda stories by jewelle gomez
- the life of a black lesbian vampire told in little vignettes throughout the years starting in 1850 and ending in 2050
- i highly recommend getting an edition with an author’s foreward, jewelle gomez communicated some really incredible messages about the experiences of black women and black lesbians specifically in this book, and getting to read her own words looking back about it was an incredible part of the experience of reading this for me
shell game by benny lawrence
- lesbian pirate on a mission to bring justice to the world fakes taking a woman as her slave so they can be a little team of liberators and also taking down their abusers and falling in love
- super charming and funny while also dealing with some heady stuff. and PIRATES!
meddling kids by edgar cantero
- this book is what you’d get if the scooby gang grew up after all their mystery solving to be struggling twenty-somethings who’ve lost touch. then throw in some real spooky mystery shit that still haunts them from their childhood and a reluctant reunion and some heists and antics, and here it is.
- not lesbian fiction in the sense that it is about the lesbian experience, but one of the main characters is a lesbian (and she’s amazing). this one might be a bit of a stretch for this list but it was one of my favourite books of last year, so i had to include it.
When I met Stella, I was so excited and appalled at making love to another woman that the Miseries took much longer to regroup. Old patterns of behaviour could not be re-established because I had never known anything like this before. The shock of the new and it worked.
For a time. The trolls wiped that look of amazement off their vestigial faces and came at me again, Nervy and Fearful in the lead.
I did something extraordinary. That is, extraordinary for me. As they were punching Stella to death, using my voice, my arguments, my cleverness brutally turned to their account, I pulled her out of the way and stood in between.
My lover was not my enemy. They were.
from Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
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#BLACK LESBIAN SUPERHERO
It is said that slavery has disappeared from European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
lesbianempath reblogged
referring to god with feminine pronouns is such a power play and i wish people did it more often
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I want a women’s revolution like a lover.
I lust for it, I want so much this freedom,
this end to struggle and fear and lies
we all exhale, that I could just die
with the passionate uttering of that desire.
Monster, Robin Morgan (via frequentlypolitical)
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I wanted to touch her. The reflecting image of a woman with a woman is seductive. I enjoyed looking at her in a way that was forbidden to me, this self on self, self as desirer and desired, had a frankness to it I had not been invited to discover. Desiring her I felt my own desirability. It was an act of power but not power over her. I was my own conquest.
Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries (via gentleantics)
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*sees any classical painting w/ 2 girls* lesbians
*sees any classical painting w/ 1 girl* single lesbian
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Some Witchy Lesbians, courtesy of a National Lesbian Newsletter from 1975.
#I subscribe to this zine it's wonderful!!!#also hi I'm never here and tbh...i don't see that changing#radfem tumblr has some good resources and is a good starting point but#there's just a lot of drama and#a lot of rehashing the same angry arguments with internet strangers#it makes it really hard to make genuine connections with like-minded women#that's my update
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“Gender is an extremely personal experience and is different for every individual.”
hey…. what if i told u
that’s literally just your personality.
pronounrespecter
personality? in MY me?
it’s more likely than you think.
lesbianempath reblogged
the really ironic thing about terfs is like 70% of them are just transmisogynistic cishet men who pretend to be women online just to get a platform in transmisogynistic feminism. pretty fucked up
radladiesunite
you really wanna talk about cishet men pretending to be women?