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lavenetkahanek · 3 days

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#airhead #me #urban witch #zerotwo #sad boy #lesbian women #sculpture #1980s

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inkfireflies · 2 days

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My contributio to the lesbian visibility week❤️🧡🤍🩷

#she ra adora #she ra fanart #she ra #she ra and the princesses of power #she ra catra #catradora #lesbian #lesbian visibility week #lesbian woman #lesbian women #lesbian flag #she ra and the princess of power fanart #she ra 2018 #pencil #traditional drawing #traditional art #digital art #color pencil #nudity

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spiderfreedom · 3 months

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Why women presented as men, in their own words

Most of these working-class women appear to have begun their "masculine" careers not because they had an overwhelming passion for another woman and wanted to be a man to her, but rather because of economic necessity or a desire for adventure beyond the narrow limits that they could enjoy as women. But once the sexologists became aware of them, they often took such women or those who showed any discontent whatsoever with their sex roles for their newly conceptualized model of the invert, since they had little difficulty believing in the sexuality of women of that class, and they assumed that a masculine-looking creature must also have a masculine sex instinct.

Autobiographical accounts of transvestite women or those who assumed a masculine demeanor suggest, if they can be believed at all, that the women's primary motives were seldom sexual. Many of them were simply dramatizing vividly the frustrations that so many more women of their class felt. They sought private solutions to those frustrations, since there was no social movement of equality for them such as had emerged for middle-class women. Lucy Ann Lobdell, for example, who passed as a man for more than ten years in the mid-nineteenth century, declared in her autobiography: "I feel that I cannot submit to all the bondage with which woman is oppressed," and explained that she made up her mind to leave her home and dress as a man to seek labor because she would "work harder at housework, and only get a dollar per week, and I was capable of doing men's work and getting men's wages." "Charles Warner," an upstate New York woman who passed as a man for most of her life, explained that in the 1860s:

“When I was about twenty I decided that I was almost at the end of my rope. I had no money and a woman's wages were not enough to keep me alive. I looked around and saw men getting more money and more work, and more money for the same kind of work. I decided to become a man. It was simple. I just put on men's clothing and applied for a man's job. I got it and got good money for those times, so I stuck to it”

A transvestite woman who could actually pass as a man had male privileges and could do all manner of things other women could not: open a bank account, write checks, own property, go anywhere[…]

Ralph Kerwinieo (nee Cora Anderson), an American Indian woman who found employment for years as a man and claimed that she "legally" married another woman in order to "protect" her from the sexist world, also expressed feminist awareness for her decision to pass as a man:

“This world is made by man—for man alone.... In the future centuries it is probable that woman will be the owner of her own body and the custodian of her own soul. But until that time you can expect that the statutes [concerning] women will be all wrong. The well-cared for woman is a parasite, and the woman who must work is a slave.... Do you blame me for wanting to be a man-free to live as a man in a man-made world? Do you blame me for hating to again resume a woman's clothes?”

There must have been many women, with or without a sexual interest in other women, who would have answered her two questions with a resounding "no!"

From “Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers.” The economic reason for women to pass as men is almost never mentioned, funny that!

#mypost #radical feminism #lesbian women #bookcitation #the more things seem to change #gnc women #100 notes tag

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yourdailyqueer · 4 months

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Jan Oxenberg

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 1950

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: American

Occupation: Producer, director, editor, screenwriter

#Jan Oxenberg #lesbianism #lesbian women #wlw #lgbt #female #lesbian #1950 #jewish #ashkenazi jewish #producer #director #editor #screenwriter

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icedout-pacemaker · 15 days

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Lesbians can attain nirvana by thrice bumping clits with another woman

#lesbians #lesbian humor #lesbian women

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doyouevenknowwhatshappening · 1 month

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Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. She pioneered the way for American women in space and still does today, twenty-two years after she passed.

Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.

NASA was still adjusting to female astronauts, and engineers had asked Ride to assist them in developing a "space makeup kit", assuming it would be something a woman would want on board.

They also infamously suggested providing Ride with a supply of 100 tampons for the six-day mission

"Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way." -Sally Ride

On July 1, 1989, Ride became a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and director of the California Space Institute (Cal Space), part of the university's Scripps Institution of OceanographyRide and O'Shaughnessy, along with three colleagues, founded Sally Ride Science in 2001 as a science education company. When Ride died after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, O’Shaughnessy wrote Ride’s obituary for the company’s website.

The obituary said Ride was survived by “Tam O’Shaughnessy, her partner of 27 years,” revealing their relationship to the public for the first time. Ride had ensured that O'Shaughnessy would inherit her estate when she drew up her will in 1992. They registered their domestic partnership on August 15, 2011.

Ride and O'Shaughnessy, along with three colleagues, founded Sally Ride Science in 2001 as a science education company. When Ride died after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, O’Shaughnessy wrote Ride’s obituary for the company’s website.

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pinkiepie20000 · 3 months

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"stop using every tag you can think of" SHUT THE FUCK UPPPPPPPPOPPPPPEPPSPSSPSPSPSOSOSPP

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emilybrontesghost · 1 year

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When I think about her, all I want to do is just lay down on the couch and cuddle underneath a blanket and watch Netflix, have her snuggle into me and lay her head on my chest as I stroke her hair. I want her to fall asleep there, safe, comfortable and warm, as I breathe in the sweet scent of her shampoo and perfume. I just wish I could hold her just once.

#bisexual women #wlw love #lesbian women #unrequited crush #crush things #wlw crush #i love my best friend #I just want to make her feel loved #wlw yearning

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blackqueernotables · 8 months

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Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey: the first out Black lesbian elder in The United Methodist Church.

#pamela lightsey #lesbian women #black lesbians #lgbt women of color #lesbians of color #black queer firsts #black queer notables

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spiderfreedom · 2 months

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“Angry Atthis” by Maxine Feldman, 1969.

#mypost #lesbian women #lesbian feminism #women's history

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mkjulian · 1 month

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Cousins in Ultimate Alien

#artists on tumblr #gwen 10 #Lesbian women #Bi short #Ben tennyson #Gwen tennyson #Transgender #Knowledge for both of them to be trans? I think it has...

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yourdailyqueer · 5 months

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Genessee Daughetee

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 28 August 1992

Ethnicity: African American, white

Occupation: Prof soccer player

#Genessee Daughetee #qpoc #lesbian women #lgbt #wlw post #female #lesbian #1992 #black #african american #poc #biracial #athlete #soccer #football

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bygones-bby · 6 days

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Lori and Valerie. Washington, DC. 1978. From Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians. Photographed by Joan. E. Biren.

#retro lesbians #foremothers #womyn #lesbian women #women #lesbian photography #real lesbians #1978 #70s #late 70s

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thatonetransdumbass · 4 months

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I'm sorry, but I have a friend who's really in need...

My friend, Samie, lives in an LGBTQ+ refugee camp in Kakuma. I made a gofindme for them, but recently they told me they don't have water anymore and they can only buy water. I need your help. They haven't had water in a while. They need the money. I will send it directly to them as soon as I can. Please help...

https://gofund.me/b1c1b666

If this doesn't work we can try other ways of sending money. It doesn't have to be USD (I'm not keeping the money, just as long as it can be transferred to their native currency, KES).

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