i enjoy the reversal of the lesbians being dark/grungy and bi sapphics being bubbly/fem trope! i also like fem lesbians being paired with masc-leaning (in whatever capacity) bisexual sapphics bc masc bi rep is damn near nonexistent to the point where being masc presenting…
stud is also a political identity and you’re antiblack as fuck for trying to push back on a black person for not identifying with a label that has been historically white.
if you read any black lesbian theory, you will find MANY black lesbians specifically didn’t ID with butch…
immediately communicates “lesbian” where visibly queer fems are given the consideration of bisexuality. erasure of masc bisexuals is also why everyone gets their panties in a twist when mascs get pregnant or have boyfriends. it’s important to me regardless of my being a lesbian.
due to its association with whiteness. black masculinity is hyperpoliced in a way that its white counterparts are not.
you are misgendering *and* being racist to it by referring to it as “butch”. it is not “butch” as it explicitly said in the tweet your bitchass reposted.
“look at our butches” and it is in fact NOT a butch. you are a child with so much to fucking learn and unlearn, evidently. you don’t know enough about the things you love to speak so confidently about and it is the arrogance of youth and whiteness that underlies that.
me i actually don’t care if i look like a beg i will be LOUD abt wanting to be your friend upon introduction sksksksksk autism is so fun when you have a lot less shame abt it
if you wanna learn more about bisexual femmes and how their femme-ness is different to lesbian femme-ness but completely valid in itself, here is a GREAT essay.
it’s published as one of the essays in “Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender” ed. by Sally R. Munt. incredible resource!
all trans people belong in all spaces, especially queer spaces. there are no limits to where trans women AND trans men can exist. you don’t get to decide that. transphobes are not my community and we should start beating them with sticks when they try to show up in *our* spaces.