Tag: heteronormativity
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Lesbians are not politically identical… and that’s alright.
It feels like a fever dream that I need to explain that lesbians are not politically identical. The fact that we have to remind LGBT people not to be authoritarian about their political beliefs is wild. Alas, we must persist in spelling out these fundamentally common-sense and crucial truths. Sexual orientation is not a choice.…
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Why Do Bisexual Women Keep Identifying as Lesbians?
I’m going to be real with you, chief. I don’t prioritise the hyper-individualistic, deluded mentality of *~creating our own reality~* and identifying as things we literally just cannot be. Especially not when it costs a vulnerable community the language they require to ever liberate themselves from oppression. Get your selfish boots off lesbians’ fucking necks.…
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New Online Classifieds Facilitate Lavender Marriages for Indian Lesbians
Society pressures lesbians to marry and have sex with men in most parts of the world. Heteropatriarchy sows doubt that female homosexuality is even possible, and so does the LGBT community. Heterocoercion feels inescapable. Only a lesbian understands how devastating the prospect, let alone reality, of us having sex with a male is. Women who…
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Lesbian Visibility Week is for female homosexuals
Lesbianism has been made invisible for a variety of homophobic reasons. Heteropatriarchal society denied that female homosexuality was possible in history, which is the epitome of invisibility. But is today much different? Lesbians can’t even have Lesbian Visibility Week (LVW), beginning April 20, to themselves without including everyone who identifies as “queer,” or else we’re…
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Betty “Who?”: Lesbian and gay solidarity is back, baby!
As someone who has spent a lot of time and energy in feminist spaces, it never fails to amaze me when non-lesbian women try to draw a wedge between lesbians and gay men. But never being attracted to the reproductive sex you’re “supposed to be,” in a world where producing offspring is upheld as humanity’s…
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The JoJo Siwa Saga: When lesbianism is denied a definition
I want to preface the recent news on JoJo Siwa by saying that if a woman genuinely thought she was a lesbian – because she’d never been attracted to a male before – only to come out as bisexual (or “queer” as JoJo did), once she discovers she actually is attracted to men, then whatever.…
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Lesbian perspectives on “queer”
Being a lesbian is the least weird thing about me. An integral part of overcoming internalised homophobia many moons ago was recognising that homosexuality exists in many mammal species and throughout human history. Perhaps that’s why I started the lesbian_herstory Instagram in the first place: as a place to remind myself and other lesbians that…
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I was there: Canada’s Stonewall, the Brunswick Four
Women had fewer choices in 1974. We were excluded from the “trades” where you could actually make a decent wage. We couldn’t get bank loans to start businesses without a man’s signature. The courts were taking children away from their mothers because their mothers were lesbians… It wasn’t good, and we were making a fuss.…
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Off the Calendar: What does Trump’s billionaire boys’ club mean for lesbians?
I’m the first to admit that I find months dedicated to the classes I belong to, such as Pride month, performative and kind of cringe. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against Pride gatherings or even the odd parade here or there, so long as capitalists do not sponsor them. They don’t really give a…
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Lesbian fetishism is not lesbian acceptance!
Lesbian fetishism is a power move resulting from the tension of uncertainty between hatred and acceptance. A trained attack dog, running on conditioned hate, will chase blood in the enemy. But there’s a space between the attack and the dog lying on its back in acceptance of its surroundings. Lesbian fetishism, like the fetishism of…