set buttocks to stun!

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My main theory was that contemporary Lesbians didn’t want to look like men - as we were constantly accused of trying to do - but we wanted to look like Dykes and other women-loving-women to invoke the styles of at least some of our foremothers. We wanted to honor our history and to wear clothes that would signal our identity to other Lesbians. It had nothing to do with wanting to look like men.

Why did our foremothers, some of them, dress in men’s clothing? Because of the power and freedom that men’s clothing both symbolized and allowed. Through the ages men have dressed for freedom, for comfort and for power. Women have been forced to dress as second- class citizens and sexual objects. From shoes to corsets, our clothing has confined and constricted us. Lesbians didn’t want to look like men…we wanted to be free, to catch the eye of other women and to mark ourselves as off- limits to men. That’s what I believe to this day.

Liza Cowan in an interview about a series of essays she wrote entitled “What The Well Dressed Dyke Will Wear” that were featured in Cowrie Magazine and DYKE, A Quarterly, two lesbian magazines active in the 1970s. (via reclaimingthelesbiantag)

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(Reblogged from partysoft)

theambiguoushero:

I am vengeance.

I am the night.

I

am

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aliealiealieee:

gothiccharmschool:

Time to bring this back: Disney animator Millicent Patrick’s work as sole designer of the Creature From the Black Lagoon was downplayed by a male coworker who then received credit for it for half a century.

fanboy-news-network:

themarysue:

jillthompson:

arcaneimages:

Millicent Patrick - The Creatures mother.

And people say I’M dressed up when I wear a skirt and heels at my drawing table…Yay all around!

Disney animator Millicent Patrick’s work as sole designer of the Creature From the Black Lagoon was downplayed by a male coworker who then received credit for it for half a century.

And another role model for Gothiccharmschool is found.

And yes, fanboy-news-network, I now count her as a role model. She’s wonderful!

very cool

(Reblogged from partysoft)

thatsnotwatyourmomsaid:

im sorry rosie youve been a good friend

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mehreenkasana:

The politics of etiquette and niceties by liberal Americans - let’s not even touch the conservatives.. A little boy in Pakistan lost his legs in a drone strike but let’s not interrupt the President, please. “There’s a time and place for everything,” we’re aggressively informed. We can let another 3000 Pakistanis die in drone strikes because right now we’re terribly in love with the President’s rhetorical skills. He’s got style. And blood on his hands. But that style.

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