#not butch culture

[butch-culture-is]

shout out to everyone who's butch but not a lesbian! love y'all

#not butch culture #butch #ftm butch #bi butch #aro butch #pan butch #ace butch

[genderqueerdykes]

male queerness does not have to be masculine in order for you to accept or take it seriously.

#trans #transgender #gay #lgbtqia #queer #lgbt #gay culture #ftm #trans men #transmasculine #transmasc #butch lesbian #nonbinary #enby #non binary #ftm lesbian #ftm butch #transmasc butch #trans man #trans guy #trans boy #genderqueer #genderfluid #bigender #transmasculine lesbian #transmasculine butch #our writing

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: Curve; The Lesbian Magazine ( January 1997 Vol. 6)

#butch/femme #butch femme culture #lesbian positivity #lesbian love #lesbian fashion #lesbian history #lgbt #image #lesbian #photo #personal

[marciies]

“did i survive? i guess i did. but only because i knew i might get home to you.”

—leslie feinberg, stone butch blues

#leslie feinberg #stone butch blues #stone butch lesbian #butch #butch lesbian #lesbian #lesbianism #butchfemme #butchfemme culture #text

[tiredyke]

ngl it irks me that people have removed butch and femme from their cultural significance and redefined them so much that they’re now synonymizing butch with “man-like” or masculine and femme with “woman-like”/feminine. like just completely abolishing the depth and significance of these identities to be two opposite ends of a cis-heteronormative spectrum (essentially reinventing m/f) as opposed to two complex and separate queer identities. so then you get people saying things like “futch” instead of genderfluid or genderqueer or nonbinary or bigender, all of which are real and valid things to be. butch and femme are not ends on a sliding scale, butch does not simply mean “masculine” and femme does not simply mean “feminine.” there’s other resources on this and other people who can explain it better than me but basically please don’t dilute the meaning of these cultural identities by putting them on a spectrum they don’t belong on.

edit: blocking people who leave annoying or dumb replies 💋❤️

#butch/femme #lesbian #gay culture #queer history #neon talks #butch and femme are genders but not the ones u think

[vaspider]

Important takeaways include:

Nobody actually knows the origin of butch.

Butches were harassed out of visibility by some of the early lesbian orgs.

'Butch' first became widespread in working-class lesbian bars.

Butch has, however, always been a term used by gay men, lesbians, and trans people. It has never been a 'lesbian-only' term.

Prior to the emergence of butch, other terms included Daddy, Husband, and Top Sgt. (which frankly I kinda wanna bring back)

This is a really good primer on butch as a term & despite queer history being a literal special interest of mine, I learned things! Take a few minutes and watch it.

#lgbtq #queer #butch #butch pride #butch lesbian #butch is a gender #butch in ballroom #ballroom culture #lgbtqia #queer community #queer pride #Youtube

[queermasculine]

Maybe a stupid question but one I've asked myself, what's the difference in between a butch and a masc for you ? Is there one ?

not a stupid question! "butch" is an older word with more meanings across time. to straight people it's been a military style haircut, a male name (still a few old guys named butch in the US), and a fairly uncomplicated synonym for masculine. to lesbians, bisexuals and gay men, it's been all of the above, but it's also had a whole host of other connotations specific to us and our own ways of loving/performing masculinity. a lot of the different meanings of butch have faded or fallen out of fashion over the years, but the word has more or less kept its purpose among lesbians, giving it the lesbian tint it has today.

"masc" is a much newer term, and unlike butch, i don't believe it's ever been widely used by the straight mainstream. (not a lot of grandpas named masc out there.) it's my impression that masc first spread out from gay guys on grindr, or at least that played a big part in popularizing it, and it's been used pretty much exclusively in an lgbt context ever since. in that sense it's the word with the more explicitly queer origin, despite having a much shorter history. having risen to popularity in the age of social media, masc carries none of the historical baggage of butch, and as such it's a more open-ended term, implying very little about a person beyond their masculinity. you can see this difference exemplified in google search results: while looking up butch will primarily yield information about the word's significance to lesbians, masc will net you more neutral descriptions, like "a person whose gender identity is masculine, but who is not necessarily a man."

despite all that, masc and butch usually serve the same function (to express the masculinity of the subject) and are used pretty much interchangeably in many contexts. also worth noting is that the lesbian association of butch is not a rule, just an observation i've made about modern perceptions. bisexual women have always used butch (and femme) alongside lesbians, and to this day you'll still encounter gay men – usually older – who identify as butch. so in conclusion, if you're trying to pick what label to use for yourself, i wouldn't worry about it too much. both terms have room enough for you in them.

#personally i dig butch for the connection to lez culture & for the images of old-timey leathermen and cigar-smoking biker dykes it conjures #but i'll respond to masc when called👍 i've got no quarrel with masc #mail

[bratprincedyke]

God is a dyke T-shirts I made ⛓🖤

If you want to buy one they’re available here

#dyke #lesbian #femme #butch #butchfemme #fem dyke #punk dyke #dyke art #butch dyke #lesbian culture #wlw #sapphic #leather dyke #lesbian positivity #lesbian pride

[kuruk]

I dint know how to say this but women who wear men's clothes make me feel like I'm a fan of them like I feel like a young girl with a crush on a celebrity like fangirling but for masc women

[merelythesbian]

im SICK of seeing so much hate towards butch women nowadays especially when it comes from lesbians like why are you hating a culture that fought for your right to be lesbian? not even to count the hate towards butch4butch relationships saying it's not 'aesthetic pleasing' FUCK YOU? you reaaaaaally don't hide how much you secretely hate masculine women do you? and butch4butch is superior btw

#butch #butch culture #butch4butch #butch lesbian

[butch-culture-is]

butches will see the word butch on a post and hit reblog,

it's me i'm butches

#not butch culture #butch

[butch-with-a-deep-voice]

Something about my femme having gone back home has made me realize something so important about butch/femme love I didn't really register at first.

How much my gender as a butch was affirmed by my femme. She sees me for who I am in a light I'm not sure literally any queer peer I've had prior has. My two-spirit womanhood, my butchness, just felt... natural around her. The masculinity, the "silly" chivalrous tendencies, the way I naturally wanted to dress. It was all affirmed just by being in relation to my femme. I had literally zero gender dysphoria for basically the entire week. It was glorious.

I actually had one of the worst dysphoria days in months yesterday afterwards, almost like a whiplash effect. But, this also helps serve as a reminder of just how right butch is for me. How happy I feel specifically as a two-spirit butch, in relation to my femme.

Once again butch/femme has proven itself holy.

#there were so many tiny and big things that affirmed by butch womanhood this last week #it was honestly lifechanging #oh vampling... 💕 #bite me #butch #lesbian #trans butch #butch/femme #butch lesbian #stone butch #butch/femme culture #butch/femme things #two spirit

[marciies]

leslie feinberg with lover, 1967

from the persistent desire: a femme-butch reader

#leslie feinberg #lesbian archive #lesbian #lesbianism #butch #femme #butch lesbian #femme lesbian #butchfemme #butch4femme #butchfemme culture #id in alt

[vintagequeer-oceansoul]

the world needs more proud butch women.

#my drawings #butch #lesbian #gay #body positive #gnc #gender nonconforming #herstory #radfem friendly #sketch #looking at photos of lesbians from the 80s and 90s #got me wishing i could have been born earlier to be part of that culture #rather than dealing with the clusterfuck that is the contemporary lgbt community

[ordereduniverse]

“For all our boyish clothes and mannerisms... we women did not pass as men or boys... our point was not to be men; our point was to be butch and get away with it... A dyke learns much of her social function from other dykes... Whether she ever has the chance to enter a Gay bar or not, she imitates dykes, not men. She may identify with traditionally dyke figures: Diana the Huntress, Beebo Brinker, Gertrude Stein, Bessie Smith, Natalie Barney, Queen Christina, Joan of Arc, Amy Lowell, Oya, St Barbara, modern athletes, and other leaders... the social message she bears and is delivering is not ‘I am a man’ but rather ‘Here is another way to be a woman.’”

-- Judy Grahn

#compulsory femininity #female masculinity #gender non conformity #gnc #lesbian culture #lesbian womanhood #many ways to be a woman #judy grahn #butch

[violottie]

since my old blog got nuked, i gotta make this post again because yall refuse to be anything but ignorant

lesbian sexuality ≠ heterosexual men's sexuality

lesbian attraction to women ≠ men's attraction to women

trans men cannot be lesbians, because they are men. if you think so, youre a transphobe as well as a lesbophobe.

lesbian attraction is not perverse, predatory, dehumanising to or sexualising of women's bodies

men have never and will never be included in lesbian sexuality and attraction under any circumstance

(and if your mind immediately goes to trans women and transfems when reading the above, congrats, youre a transphobe)

butch, femme, stud and stone are lesbian only identities

similarly, dyke is a slur that literally means lesbian. if youre not a lesbian, you're not a, nor can you 'reclaim', dyke.

butches and studs ≠ men or man-lite

butch ≠ masculine

femme ≠ feminine

transmasc ≠ trans man, therefore transmasc lesbians are a thing and trans men cannot ever be lesbians

trans women and transfems have been & will always be included in lesbian attraction, sexuality and community

trans lesbians & transfems can be butch

he/him lesbians ≠ (trans)masc, butch, stud lesbians

black lesbians ≠ automatically masc, butch, stud or tops

"bi lesbians" or "mspec lesbians" do not exist.

the split attraction model is for aromanticism and asexuality only. if you identify as such, youre just a bisexual who doesnt wanna unpack your internalised biphobia so resort to lesbophobia to cope with your self loathing caused by harmful stereotypes about your sexuality, which is bisexual. if you claim they do exist, you're both lesbophobic and biphobic

thank you for coming to my TedTalk. im sure you didnt listen to a word i said.

#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtq community #important #lesbophobia #lesbian #lesbianism #lesbian pride #butch lesbian #femme lesbian #stud lesbian #trans lesbian #nonbinary lesbian #transmasc lesbian #transfem lesbian #he/him lesbian #lesbian community #lesbian safe #lesbian culture #anti bi lesbian #anti mspec lesbian #dyke #dyke pride