michfest-as-is:

dreaming of lesbian land, longing for womyn’s festivals, reading books and listening to music and appreciating the culture that lesbians made in the 1970s-90s…you should know that many of the womyn whose work means so much to you are very much alive and still creating in one sense or another. Talk to them.

Tell her how much you love that book she edited. Tell her that love song she bravely recorded in 1975 still captures exactly the way you feel. Visit their lesbian land with your friends. Go to the Festivals where you can meet and connect with them.

This is such a rare moment in patriarchal times. More than one generation of lesbians living out loud together for what may be a brief moment, all because the elders, in their youth, forged the way to make this possible. Talk to them. Connect with them. This moment will not last forever, and is precious. Everything rests in the balance. When you become the elder, what will the world be for lesbian youth? How can we, together, create a better future for us all?

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satyriconmp3:

never enjoyed what men have to say about women. they don’t get it. so you can imagine how hard art, media and all of my education has been for me

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oddynuff:

For the ladies: here’s all of the reading material from my oxford feminist philosophy class, which explores the foundations of feminist thinking by applying feminist approaches to the main topics in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy and how they apply to important feminist issues and answers questions such as:

• What is it to be a ‘woman’?
• What is gender? What is sex? How should these categories be understood?
• How does gender interact with other categories, such as race, ethnicity, class and sexuality?
• To what extent is the lived experience of one’s own gendered body socially constructed and politically shaped?
• Do men and women have distinctive ways of knowing? Do traditional accounts of knowledge discount the experience of oppressed groups?
• How does gender impact on moral and political thinking and action?
• What is gender injustice?
• Does liberalism rely on patriarchy?

The PDFs I have provided include titles such as:

• Throwing like a girl - A phenomenology of feminine body comportment motility and spatiality (Human Studies)
• The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism (Feminist critiques of liberalism)
• A companion to feminist philosophy (Existentialism and Phenomenology)
• The Routledge handbook of epistemic injustice (Evolving Concepts of Epistemic Injustice)
• Standpoint Theories - Productively Controversial
• Performative Acts and Gender Constitution - An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
• Contingent Foundations - Feminism and the Question of “Postmodernism”
• The Second Sex

Go hog wild cause each of these files contain a warning before the actual material that states that I was apparently supposed to like, keep these files strictly to myself as if I wasn’t going to save and redistribute hundreds of dollars worth of reading material… i have to laugh!

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nemfrog:

Female figure. Drawing the Living Figure. 1991 ed.

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violetbain:

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violetbain:

I found a copy of The Joy of Lesbian Sex at a local gay book shop and it has the most beautiful and sensual illustrations…… it’s a genuinely amazing book. it was written in 1977, like peak radical lesbian feminism, it’s so optimistic and tender and it breaks my heart… when you google the title a bunch of porn comes up. things were looking up for lesbians once upon a time. this book is a treasure to me — a snapshot of better days. a book like this could never be published now. it’s political, it’s intelligent, it’s hot, it’s… all about women. it makes me feel so goddamn normal. out of my whole collection of lesbian feminist literature it is my special favorite, just for everything it symbolizes…

like “lesbian sex” is a term that used to send shivers down my spine, it feels like a slap in the face the way most people use it to demean, belittle, mock, ridicule. sex between women is so stigmatized. detransitioning made me realize how much I was hurt by it. how I tried to distance myself from lesbianism because i was tired of feeling disgusting for being one. anyway. a book about lesbian sex that is not crude or coarse, not pornified, is made for women by women, is tender, sweet, sexy, insightful, passionate & compassionate… it warms my little heart… if any lesbians ever stumble upon a copy of this book, I highly recommend it…

here are some of the illustrations (the tamer ones!). they are so charmingly dated.

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etromdthu:

“God occupies me as a shapeless hunger.”

— Scherezade Siobhan, “The Mirror I Won’t” (Published in Rattle)

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kittyit:

WHAT MUST BE DONE - A call for submissions of fiction, essays, poetry, art, and comics on women killing men.

Submissions are open from October 1st to December 31st, 2023.

The subject matter is open to interpretation. A lot of women think about this a lot, each in her own way. One intention for the anthology is a focus on women’s reasons and inner worlds when they choose to kill, not on the violence itself. We are not looking for torture or violence meant to titillate - this is women doing what must be done for practicality’s sake, a measured decision.

Art submissions need to be black and white. Page size is 6" x 9" with .75" margins.

Accepted submissions are not paid. However, all contributors will receive a free contributor’s copy and books will be sold at cost + shipping. The purpose of these and other ugly truths projects is to work towards a current thriving and diverse body of creative works from this women’s community. We work to continue the unbroken chain of feminist women’s creative and intellectual legacy.

Send submissions to uglytruthscollective@gmail.com. Multiple submissions welcomed. Include an author bio (1 sentence minimum, but write as much as you’d like.)

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the-sappho-of-lesbos:

Source : Her Tongue on My Theory ; Images, Essays and Fantasies by Kiss & Tell

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effysayres:

When Daphne transforms into a bay tree, the moment is one of both horror and deliverance. She is no longer what she once was, but the metamorphosis frees her from the unwanted attention of Apollo. This duality of horror and emancipation sits, I think, at the core of female transformation. Within the horror genre (and arguably everywhere else), bodies read as female are always subject to pain, and to the threat of violation. Becoming something else—a tree, a freak, a monster—preempts this pain and reduces the risk of harm. It may even, if the transformation is the right one, allow you to cause harm in return.

Julia Armfield, On Body Horror and the Female Body

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