times have been rough lately but here's some art journaling I have to share with y'all :-) I always love seeing the reactions to these bc they're rly cathartic for me to make
small collection of links for ldov
would encourage looking for these in local bookshops if you can, especially books by authors of colour
on butch/femme: compiled readings, compiled by i.m. epstein (collection of genres)
the persistent desire: a femme-butch reader, edited by joan nestle (collection of genres, register on archive.org or here is a pdf)
last train out of the city by ivan coyote (poem)
the only blak queer in the world by ellen van neervan (poem)
boots of leather, slippers of gold by elizabeth lapovsky kennedy and madeline gold (history, register on archive.org)
odd girls and twilight lovers by lillian faderman (history)*
the vintage book of international lesbian fiction, edited by joan nestle (fiction, register on archive.org or here is an epub)*
women on women: an anthology of american lesbian short fiction, edited by joan nestle and naomi holoch (fiction, register on archive.org)*
stone butch blues by leslie feinberg (fiction, cw r*pe, assault, police brutality)
beebo brinker series by ann brannon (pulp fiction, this is all five books in one)
notes of a crocodile by qiu miaojin (fiction)*
the color purple by alice walker (fiction, cw incest, r*pe)
tipping the velvet by sarah waters (fiction)
oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson (fiction)
zami by audre lorde (biomythography)*
s/he by minnie bruce pratt (memoir, register on archive.org)*
fun home by alison bechdel (graphic memoir)
epistemology of the closet by eve kosofsky sedgwick (lit theory)*
the T on chinese transmasculinity by jinghua qian (essay)
who says we don't talk about sex? by kitty tsui (essay, found in the persistent desire but this is my post so i'm adding it)
asterisk = things i haven't read but intend to
lmk if anything doesn't work i don't actually know how to use dropbox <3
ok we’ve all been waiting for one of these right?
choose some masc/butch women and i’ll tell u if ur invited to my sleepover!!
i made a uquiz that started out being for my friends but now it’s something else. what image do you cultivate for yourself?