to the extent to which a "man" writes lesbian desire from the inside, with zero distance like this -- even if with less than total conscious recognition of such an act, perhaps *especially* in the absence of that recognition --

characterising that author as a "transgender lesbian" is a valid theoretical framework. what is being inchoately performes doesn't merely approach a "lesbianism of the soul" -- it arguably is one.

and totally devoid of the "performance for men" aspect. this isn't r/menwritingwomen at ALL. this is blue-is-the-warmest-colour adjacent. girl in red would approve.

Baudelaire pities what he perceives to be the barrenness of lesbian love (yeah, thanks, guy) in "Delphine et Hippolyte." Louÿs looks through the eyes of a sapphic and writes what is felt and heard and seen and tasted and smelled. the eroticism is tender, domestic, and intense-because-domestic...

While biographical information points to a cisgender man, the intensity and authenticity of the feminine voice in h̶i̶s̶ work warrants a deeper investigation into the nuances of self-expression in the work.

For, even granted the fact that it was a kind of literary fabrication, the text again and again suggests a possible connection to trans or genderqueer identity.

I'm filing "him" under "Decadent versecrafters who wouldn't have been possible were it not for the likes of Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Lautréamont, de Sade, Swinburne."

*america yawns, rolls over, changes channel*

cléo de 5 à 7

omg this is my worst nightmare

my passport expires in six years. i had a panic attack in Taiwan and bought a 3000 USD flight, laying over in Doha 😬 and terminated my Taiwanese lease.

i am just one person but i'm telling my story so that you know that this is really fucking with people's heads with serious consequences. 😢

whereas Taiwan is under an active geopolitical threat and, although they handle 2S/LGBTQIA+ rights relatively well for Asia, is iffy about them for even resident foreigners (queer Taiwanese people can get married in Taiwan but queer foreigners can't for example, which isn't widely known)

so that if they revoke my passport here all hope is not lost. i can just stay here where i speak the language and let my US passport wither and die as i rack up the years of residency necessary to acquire a passport from a government that isn't going to play fast and loose with my mental health 💔

i ✨ uprooted my entire life ✨ within a two-week timeframe so that i could get to a country where our rights are enshrined in federal and local law (i had been living in Taiwan for three years & didn't want to be frozen there on the whim of some hateful groyper. i moved to Uruguay last month)

on Mars

seriously 😬

sir this is a brothel

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IM HELPING