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Stone Butch Lesbian. T4T. Neurodivergent & Disabled. MA Gender Studies Graduate. Covid Conscious. 24. @JunkyardDoggirl.bsky.social’s butch.
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Getting falafel after the drag show last night
Mirror selfie of me in dark jeans, mules, a flannel shirt, tan jacket, black face mask, and black hat
January 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I’m NGL I’m reading the Hunger Games series right now because I wanna read the new one and I’m speeding through them. Kinda obsessed
January 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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If you have to bend the definition of butch to fit you and caveat everything, maybe the label doesn’t fit you and that is okay. You can still be a part of lesbian communities and culture without watering down butchness
January 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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T4T couple who both get euphoric when the waiter gives the bill to the transmasc
January 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Not a Girl
Not a Girl The first time that I realised I wasn't a girl, I was visiting my dad with my girlfriend who was my boyfriend at the time. Do you follow? Anyway, I'd ran out bikinis. More specifically, I'd ran out of bikini bottoms. I'd swam too often, even the Kenyan sun couldn't catch up with all the drying that needed to be done for me to swim as often as I'd wanted to. I've always been most comfortable in the water. I'd jump in any lake I'd come across as a child, I probably still would given the chance. I live in a big city now. Manchester, to be precise. Hence, I don't come across many lakes. So, I had no dry bikini bottoms but my need to be in the water hadn't been satiated. Do you see where I'm going? Probably not but that's okay. Stay with me. What I'm saying is, I needed something to cover my cunt. Something to provide modesty for my swim. But, like I said, I was staying with my dad and my girlfriend who was my boyfriend at the time. It's important that I remind you of this because it was her — 'his' at the time - men's swimming trunks that I'd borrowed. And that was my first taste of gender euphoria. Or at the very least, the first time that I had the correct language to make sense of my feelings @t4tbutch
January 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Happy new year lesbians
Mirror selfie of me in a white tshirt, gold watch, chain and rings
January 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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A femme taught me to do this on a first date once
January 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Butching out
December 22, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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God bless my barber
Selfie of Moll with a fade and two lines shaved in the side wearing a black hoodie and brown bomber jacket
December 20, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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I think telling a woman that she has a nice rack is hot because it’s just the right level of misogyny
December 20, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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My best friend bought my femme and I engraved carabiners
Photo of a silver carabiner that says BUTCH on it interlinked with a smaller black carabiner that says PUPPY
December 20, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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A Butch Lover
“A Butch Lover” stamped with black ink as a title “He’s no man, I confess with my mouth He gives fulfillment And orders you to speak with tongues Get ready to receive the body of his flesh Come to me, he says Spread and at his hand are pleasures evermore Let me worship and service you Thank you for the privilege to serve” collaged into a single stanza out of newspaper clippings on white paper
December 9, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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Femme Lover💋🍒
Scanned image of a collage I made with lips and cherries creating a ring around the stamped words “Femme Lover” with a plain white background
December 8, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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Fresh
Selfie of Moll in toilet stall wearing a black face mask, and loveless tshirt over a black hoodie showing off their haircut
December 2, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Butch tummy
Photo of my stomach and thighs in black Calvin Klein boxers with a floral tattoo on my hip and body hair
December 1, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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Get to know each other by 10 fav books

Stone Butch Blues
The Persistent Desire: A FemmeButch Reader
Hunger: A Memoir of my Body
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Hijab Butch Blues
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
The Secret History
Babel
In the Dream House
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
quorniya.bsky.social quorniya @quorniya.bsky.social · Nov 29
get to know each other by favorite books!

1. one hundred years of solitude
2. harrow the ninth
3. sandman
4. the fifth season
5. this is how you lose the time war
6. stone butch blues
7. beloved
8. the left hand of darkness
9. parable of the sower
10. the name of the rose
hannahhbic.bsky.social hannah, @hannahhbic.bsky.social · Nov 29
get to know each other by favorite books! 🤍

🩷the unbroken by cl clark
❤️she who became the sun
🧡the fifth season by jemisin
💛ancillary justice
💚teixcalaan
🩵the starless sea
💙honey girl by morgan rogers
💜bright falls trilogy
🤎a psalm for the wild-built
🖤the queer principles of kitt webb
November 30, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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Butchfemme / trans sky, entertain me with NGL questions, confessions, etc ❤️‍🔥

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November 29, 2024 at 11:43 PM
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My lesbianism and my transness are inherently connected and cannot be seperated. My butchness and my gender are one and the same.
November 27, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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When I woke up this morning, my girlfriend whispered “spoon”, then rolled over, backed into me, and fell straight back to sleep
November 27, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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Got 2 tickets available for Laura Jane Grace tonight in Leeds at The Key Club, doors are at 7 & she’s on at 8.45 pm. Does anyone want them?
November 21, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Punch Nazis, yes.

But also take meals to people, help your friends move, remind people they are valued and loved, hold space for the hurt and grieving, learn when punching a Nazi might actually be more harmful to the people you think you’re protecting, and find joy!
November 21, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Just found out that my old philosophy, ethics & religion teacher from college has been vocally pro Palestine online. She was always my favourite teacher, I looked up to her a lot. It’s so heartwarming to know that from a young age, my role models had a good heart
November 21, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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For TDOR, here are some excerpts from my MA dissertation on the experiences of Trans Sex Workers.

(TW for transphobic violence, hate crime)

#TDoR #TDoR2024 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek
1.2 Transgender women A large amount of literature on trans sex workers specifically emphasises the amount of oppression and abuse that trans women receive. Revolting Prostitutes (2018) states that "trans women are particularly targeted for violence" (Smith and Mac, p.130) by police in South Africa. Transfeminine sex workers reported a higher likelihood of police interaction than their transmasculine counterparts, with transfem sex workers reporting 83.9 percents compared to transmasc sex workers reporting 65.8 percent (Fitzgerald et al., 2015, p.17). One study that focused on trans women's experiences within the sex industry found that they are often mistreated by police due to their "stigmatized identities as transgender women" (Nadal et al., 2014, p.175). In 2016, Amnesty found that trans sex workers were often subjected to "particularly abusive police practices including intrusive and humiliating full-body searches carried out by male officers on transgender women" (Amnesty, 2016). This was affirmed by a lawyer who stated that there was "a lot of groping and mockery" (Amnesty, 2016). Smith and Mac (2018) reinforce this claim, stating that "trans women are often questioned about their 'biological' status: a demand that invariably reveals an obsessive focus on their genitals." (p.34). Further, a survey regarding trans health care revealed that 91 percent of participants who reported being HIV positive identified as either MTF (male-to-female) trans women or gender non-conforming on the male-to-female spectrum. This is incredibly high when compared to the 3.76 percent of the respondents who reported HIV infection that were FTM (female-to-male) trans men (Grant et al., 2010, p.13). I contend that the high amount of oppression and violence that trans women experience is due to transmisogyny. Transmisogyny refers to a specific prejudice that transfeminine people face which is the confluence of transphobia and misogyny (Kacere, 2014). It is rooted in the belief that femininity is inferior to masculinity and regards maleness and masculinity as superior to femininity. Transmisogyny posits the mockery, hatred and violence that transfems are subjected to, which we are able to see displayed in Amnesty's (2016) research. Transmisogyny can be seen as evidenced in the violence against trans women; over half of all LGBTQIA+ murders were perpetrated against trans women and twenty-five percent of trans women have been incarcerated at some point in their life (Kacere, 2014). Additionally, "Turkey has reported 1 trans women, the majority being sex workers, murdered in the last ten years" (Joksimovic, 2020, p.88). Hence, the violence against trans women sex workers is widespread. Transmisogyny can be helpfully understood in relation to hegemonic masculinity in that they both perform the function of 'Othering' those who are perceived as expressing femininity. Hegemonic masculinity can be understood as the pattern of practice that legitimises patriarchy and thus allows men's dominance over women to continue (Connell, 1995). It refers to the pattern of masculinity that occupies the hegemonic position culturally. Through hegemonic masculinity, homosexual men, men that are seen as less traditionally "masculine' and women are subordinated and othered (Connell, 1995). Arguably, hegemonic masculinity is a prerequisite to transmisogyny. It posits a belief in traditional masculinity as being superior to femininity and thus, has the potential to view transfeminine people as effeminate, homosexual men who have therefore failed to achieve the masculine values set by hegemony. 1.3 Hate Crime There was a large focus on the risk of violence faced by trans sex workers. Violence against trans sex workers can be regarded as acts of hate crime which "refers to those criminal acts committed because of someone's actual or perceived membership in a particular group" (Levin, 1999, p.8). A study evidenced that trans sex workers are frequently murdered and that this has a direct correlation to their profession: "Globally, trans sex workers make up 62 per cent of all trans murder victims, where the victims' profession is known". (Faye, 2022, p.141). This percentage is even higher in Europe and rises to 88 percent (p.141). The direct relation to their profession thus correlates with the above definition of a hate crime because the violence is committed because of their perceived membership to a particular group - in this case, being a sex worker. Furthermore, being trans further increases sex workers' risk of violence: "Cisgender sex workers are safer from these risks than transgender sex workers" (Smith and Mac, 2018, p.20). Arguably, transphobia and transmisogyny are the differentiating factors that further endanger trans sex workers when compared to the relative safety of cisgender sex workers. The vulnerability and safety of trans sex workers is also discussed in The Transgender Issue (2022), "her trans status and her work on the street combined to make her especially vulnerable" (Faye, p141). There is a consensus amongst the literature reviewed that trans sex workers consistently face violence and are vulnerable to hate crimes. This is substantiated through the use of statistics, anecdotal evidence, and the use of theory which discusses how intersectional identities and oppression converge. "Law enforcement officers' internalisation and perpetuation of these stereotypes, combined with the high degree of discretion afforded by vague "quality of life", "nuisance", "public morality," and prostitution regulations, results in police profiling of trans women, more often trans women of colour and/or migrants, as sex workers, with selective targeting for harassment, detention, and arrest" (Fedorko and Berredo, 2017, p.10). This can also be seen echoed in the literature surrounding incarceration. It was reported that "people of color were more than twice as likely (46.8%) than their white counterparts (18.3%) to report being "arrested for being trans." Similarly, 58.8 percent of people of color and 35.2 percent of respondents reported being sent to jail/prison "for any reason" (Fitzgerald et al., 2015, p.5). It is notable that whilst all sex workers of colour are more likely to have interactions with law enforcement than white sex workers, Black and Black Multiracial sex workers reported the highest levels of interaction with police, by far, at 87.3 percent (p.17). Policing and law enforcement that specifically profiles trans women of colour is often referred "to as "walking while trans" or "walking while Black" (Fitzgerald et al., 2015, p.9). This occurrence having a well-known colloquial name indicates how prevalent this type of racial and gender profiling is for trans people of colour. Hence, trans sex workers' additional intersecting marginalised identities further increase the likelihood of violence, oppression, and harassment. Additionally, research regarding HIV infection rates in 2010 found that trans respondents reported an "HIV infection rate of 2.64%", which was significantly higher than the "general United States adult population (0.6%)" (Grant et al., 2010, p.13). Although the focus of this study was trans people rather than trans sex workers, it was observed that "61% of those who reported HIV infection [had] engaged in sex work. To consider this …
November 20, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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For TDOR, here are some excerpts from my MA dissertation on the experiences of Trans Sex Workers.

(TW for transphobic violence, hate crime)

#TDoR #TDoR2024 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek
1.2 Transgender women A large amount of literature on trans sex workers specifically emphasises the amount of oppression and abuse that trans women receive. Revolting Prostitutes (2018) states that "trans women are particularly targeted for violence" (Smith and Mac, p.130) by police in South Africa. Transfeminine sex workers reported a higher likelihood of police interaction than their transmasculine counterparts, with transfem sex workers reporting 83.9 percents compared to transmasc sex workers reporting 65.8 percent (Fitzgerald et al., 2015, p.17). One study that focused on trans women's experiences within the sex industry found that they are often mistreated by police due to their "stigmatized identities as transgender women" (Nadal et al., 2014, p.175). In 2016, Amnesty found that trans sex workers were often subjected to "particularly abusive police practices including intrusive and humiliating full-body searches carried out by male officers on transgender women" (Amnesty, 2016). This was affirmed by a lawyer who stated that there was "a lot of groping and mockery" (Amnesty, 2016). Smith and Mac (2018) reinforce this claim, stating that "trans women are often questioned about their 'biological' status: a demand that invariably reveals an obsessive focus on their genitals." (p.34). Further, a survey regarding trans health care revealed that 91 percent of participants who reported being HIV positive identified as either MTF (male-to-female) trans women or gender non-conforming on the male-to-female spectrum. This is incredibly high when compared to the 3.76 percent of the respondents who reported HIV infection that were FTM (female-to-male) trans men (Grant et al., 2010, p.13). I contend that the high amount of oppression and violence that trans women experience is due to transmisogyny. Transmisogyny refers to a specific prejudice that transfeminine people face which is the confluence of transphobia and misogyny (Kacere, 2014). It is rooted in the belief that femininity is inferior to masculinity and regards maleness and masculinity as superior to femininity. Transmisogyny posits the mockery, hatred and violence that transfems are subjected to, which we are able to see displayed in Amnesty's (2016) research. Transmisogyny can be seen as evidenced in the violence against trans women; over half of all LGBTQIA+ murders were perpetrated against trans women and twenty-five percent of trans women have been incarcerated at some point in their life (Kacere, 2014). Additionally, "Turkey has reported 1 trans women, the majority being sex workers, murdered in the last ten years" (Joksimovic, 2020, p.88). Hence, the violence against trans women sex workers is widespread. Transmisogyny can be helpfully understood in relation to hegemonic masculinity in that they both perform the function of 'Othering' those who are perceived as expressing femininity. Hegemonic masculinity can be understood as the pattern of practice that legitimises patriarchy and thus allows men's dominance over women to continue (Connell, 1995). It refers to the pattern of masculinity that occupies the hegemonic position culturally. Through hegemonic masculinity, homosexual men, men that are seen as less traditionally "masculine' and women are subordinated and othered (Connell, 1995). Arguably, hegemonic masculinity is a prerequisite to transmisogyny. It posits a belief in traditional masculinity as being superior to femininity and thus, has the potential to view transfeminine people as effeminate, homosexual men who have therefore failed to achieve the masculine values set by hegemony. 1.3 Hate Crime There was a large focus on the risk of violence faced by trans sex workers. Violence against trans sex workers can be regarded as acts of hate crime which "refers to those criminal acts committed because of someone's actual or perceived membership in a particular group" (Levin, 1999, p.8). A study evidenced that trans sex workers are frequently murdered and that this has a direct correlation to their profession: "Globally, trans sex workers make up 62 per cent of all trans murder victims, where the victims' profession is known". (Faye, 2022, p.141). This percentage is even higher in Europe and rises to 88 percent (p.141). The direct relation to their profession thus correlates with the above definition of a hate crime because the violence is committed because of their perceived membership to a particular group - in this case, being a sex worker. Furthermore, being trans further increases sex workers' risk of violence: "Cisgender sex workers are safer from these risks than transgender sex workers" (Smith and Mac, 2018, p.20). Arguably, transphobia and transmisogyny are the differentiating factors that further endanger trans sex workers when compared to the relative safety of cisgender sex workers. The vulnerability and safety of trans sex workers is also discussed in The Transgender Issue (2022), "her trans status and her work on the street combined to make her especially vulnerable" (Faye, p141). There is a consensus amongst the literature reviewed that trans sex workers consistently face violence and are vulnerable to hate crimes. This is substantiated through the use of statistics, anecdotal evidence, and the use of theory which discusses how intersectional identities and oppression converge. "Law enforcement officers' internalisation and perpetuation of these stereotypes, combined with the high degree of discretion afforded by vague "quality of life", "nuisance", "public morality," and prostitution regulations, results in police profiling of trans women, more often trans women of colour and/or migrants, as sex workers, with selective targeting for harassment, detention, and arrest" (Fedorko and Berredo, 2017, p.10). This can also be seen echoed in the literature surrounding incarceration. It was reported that "people of color were more than twice as likely (46.8%) than their white counterparts (18.3%) to report being "arrested for being trans." Similarly, 58.8 percent of people of color and 35.2 percent of respondents reported being sent to jail/prison "for any reason" (Fitzgerald et al., 2015, p.5). It is notable that whilst all sex workers of colour are more likely to have interactions with law enforcement than white sex workers, Black and Black Multiracial sex workers reported the highest levels of interaction with police, by far, at 87.3 percent (p.17). Policing and law enforcement that specifically profiles trans women of colour is often referred "to as "walking while trans" or "walking while Black" (Fitzgerald et al., 2015, p.9). This occurrence having a well-known colloquial name indicates how prevalent this type of racial and gender profiling is for trans people of colour. Hence, trans sex workers' additional intersecting marginalised identities further increase the likelihood of violence, oppression, and harassment. Additionally, research regarding HIV infection rates in 2010 found that trans respondents reported an "HIV infection rate of 2.64%", which was significantly higher than the "general United States adult population (0.6%)" (Grant et al., 2010, p.13). Although the focus of this study was trans people rather than trans sex workers, it was observed that "61% of those who reported HIV infection [had] engaged in sex work. To consider this …
November 20, 2024 at 12:45 PM