Life Is Beautiful And Everything Will Be Okay In The End Anyways

woke up to a mcdonald’s bag with a hotcake box sitting beside me before i start my day 🌟 today’s already starting great, thanks brother!

off to fight the great war now, fellas (one pending project due tonight, one lesson to be reviewed for tomorrow’s exams, two pending projects for the student organization, three lessons to be reviewed for next week’s exams) please wish me luck

an even less exhaustive list of femme literature

since a made of a list of butch lit, I thought it would be nice to make a list of femme writing by (mostly) femme authors as well. books I've read myself in bold; take the rest with a grain of salt. I'd really appreciate additions, especially of fiction!

fiction:

dykette by jenny fran davis

perfume and pain by anna dorn

trash by dorothy allison

all the pretty girls by chandra mayor

femme confidential by nairne holtz

bottle rocket hearts by zoe whittall

nonfiction:

brazen femme: queering feminity ed chloe brushwood rose and anna camilleri

femme: feminists, lesbians, and bad girls ed laura harris and elizabeth crocker

the femme mystique ed leslea newman

out of the closet and nothing to wear by leslea newman

fierce femmes and notorious liars by kai cheng thom

dirty river by leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha

s/he by minnie bruce pratt

naked in the promised land by lillian faderman

a restricted country by joan nestle

rust belt femme by raechel anne jolie

my dangerous desires by amber hollibaugh

odd girls and twilight lovers by lillian faderman

another mother tongue by judy grahn

boots of leather, slippers of gold by elizabeth lapovsky and madeline davis

the persistent desire ed joan nestle

persistence: all way butch and femme ed ivan coyote and zena sharman

articles/essays:

our own words by rosza daniel lang/levitsky in e-flux

high femme camp antics by jenny fran davis in la review of books

with gratitude and struggle by nan alamilla boyd in autostraddle

that time I went on a lesbian cruise and blew up my life by shannon keating in buzzfeed

femme-inism by paula austin in colonize this!

vi’s fuck ass smile when making a lame joke to try to get cait to feel better i love you so much

if being an awkward loser lesbian was illegal id be in prison

mitsuaya both still getting shy about admitting how long they’ve liked each other even now after they’ve already kissed oh i know years later they’ll be one of those “awww babe you had a crush on me? how embarrassing for you” couples for sure

WICKED (2024) — dir. Jon M. Chu

i just started honkai impact recently ....... i don’t know her true intentions, i don’t know how far she’ll go and how doomed the world is thanks to her existence but i just know that i Get Her

go for it Koharu!!

I love lesbian gender so much. Literally every lesbian I’ve met has their own unique form of gender expression. Even within dynamics like butchfemme, we still transcend “normal” definitions of gender. We’re like scrapbooks, we just collect all these little pieces of fashion and culture and construct our own sense of beauty out of it in hopes that other lesbians will find it cool.

I find myself thinking "god, I need a cigarette" way too often for someone who doesn't actually smoke. but what can I say. I've been needing a cigarette