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intersectional feminism♀️and lesbian ⚢ literature, history, and analysis
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“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”
― Adrienne Rich
― Adrienne Rich
June 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”
― Adrienne Rich
― Adrienne Rich
“I don't think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it's only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.”
― Angela Y. Davis
― Angela Y. Davis
June 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“I don't think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it's only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.”
― Angela Y. Davis
― Angela Y. Davis
“…Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
— Ursula K. Le Guin
— Ursula K. Le Guin
June 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“…Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
— Ursula K. Le Guin
— Ursula K. Le Guin
About white women teaching antiracism exclusively to other white women.
June 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
About white women teaching antiracism exclusively to other white women.
In what can only be described as a protest against accountability, Pornhub just shut down entirely in France, refusing to implement safeguards required by law.
The laws are age verification laws, to protect children and underaged minors. 🤮
The laws are age verification laws, to protect children and underaged minors. 🤮
June 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In what can only be described as a protest against accountability, Pornhub just shut down entirely in France, refusing to implement safeguards required by law.
The laws are age verification laws, to protect children and underaged minors. 🤮
The laws are age verification laws, to protect children and underaged minors. 🤮
A few days ago, seventeen year old Sana Yousef was killed by a man who wouldn’t take her ‘no’ for answer.
June 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
A few days ago, seventeen year old Sana Yousef was killed by a man who wouldn’t take her ‘no’ for answer.
On the second day of pride month, American gay, indigenous actor Jonathan Joss was murdered.
He was shot dead, in what his husband called a homophobic hate crime. Joss’ newlywed husband said Joss' alleged killer called him & his husband "jotos," a Spanish slur for gay people.
This is a tragedy.
He was shot dead, in what his husband called a homophobic hate crime. Joss’ newlywed husband said Joss' alleged killer called him & his husband "jotos," a Spanish slur for gay people.
This is a tragedy.
June 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
On the second day of pride month, American gay, indigenous actor Jonathan Joss was murdered.
He was shot dead, in what his husband called a homophobic hate crime. Joss’ newlywed husband said Joss' alleged killer called him & his husband "jotos," a Spanish slur for gay people.
This is a tragedy.
He was shot dead, in what his husband called a homophobic hate crime. Joss’ newlywed husband said Joss' alleged killer called him & his husband "jotos," a Spanish slur for gay people.
This is a tragedy.
"lesbian is my gender"
June 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"lesbian is my gender"
This is a favorite essay of my own. Link in comment
June 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is a favorite essay of my own. Link in comment
Members of the Kitchen Table Press, an active feminist press.
The women who started the press - Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Barbara & Beverly Smith, did so because "as feminist and lesbian of color writers, we knew that we had no options for getting published..."
The women who started the press - Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Barbara & Beverly Smith, did so because "as feminist and lesbian of color writers, we knew that we had no options for getting published..."
June 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Members of the Kitchen Table Press, an active feminist press.
The women who started the press - Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Barbara & Beverly Smith, did so because "as feminist and lesbian of color writers, we knew that we had no options for getting published..."
The women who started the press - Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Barbara & Beverly Smith, did so because "as feminist and lesbian of color writers, we knew that we had no options for getting published..."
Feminism requires precisely what the patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power.
— Andrea Dworkin
— Andrea Dworkin
June 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Feminism requires precisely what the patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power.
— Andrea Dworkin
— Andrea Dworkin
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
May 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
― bell hooks
― bell hooks
March 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
― bell hooks
― bell hooks
“Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children..."
-Susan Sontag
-Susan Sontag
March 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children..."
-Susan Sontag
-Susan Sontag
Gordon Parks, “Department Store, Mobile, Alabama,” 1956
March 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Gordon Parks, “Department Store, Mobile, Alabama,” 1956
“But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.”
― Audre Lorde
― Audre Lorde
March 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.”
― Audre Lorde
― Audre Lorde
“i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”
― Nikki Giovanni
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”
― Nikki Giovanni
March 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”
― Nikki Giovanni
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”
― Nikki Giovanni
“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.”
― bell hooks
― bell hooks
March 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.”
― bell hooks
― bell hooks
A deeply personal, deeply philosophical review of Constance Debre's Playboy: booksbeforemidnight.substack.com/p/playboy-co...
#lesbianliterature #book #bookreview #bookreviewer
#lesbianliterature #book #bookreview #bookreviewer
November 22, 2024 at 2:49 AM
A deeply personal, deeply philosophical review of Constance Debre's Playboy: booksbeforemidnight.substack.com/p/playboy-co...
#lesbianliterature #book #bookreview #bookreviewer
#lesbianliterature #book #bookreview #bookreviewer
Wound: Oksana Vasyakina
Lesbian autofiction that's not for the faint of heart...
booksbeforemidnight.substack.com/p/wound-oksa...
Lesbian autofiction that's not for the faint of heart...
booksbeforemidnight.substack.com/p/wound-oksa...
November 20, 2024 at 6:12 AM
Wound: Oksana Vasyakina
Lesbian autofiction that's not for the faint of heart...
booksbeforemidnight.substack.com/p/wound-oksa...
Lesbian autofiction that's not for the faint of heart...
booksbeforemidnight.substack.com/p/wound-oksa...