Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

« Attempts in the 1970s to represent queer women's sexualities across media did more than simply ask their viewers to identify with their lesbian characters or celebrate the lives of particular identitarian subjects. While occasionally ontological, lesbian representation was also epistemological, interested not only in what "lesbian" was but also in thinking through what "lesbian" could do to divert and subvert patriarchy and heterosexism. More than mere negation, "becoming lesbian," for many feminists, precipitated "a welcome and joyful expansion of their sexual and emotional vocabularies." »

« I appreciate the aesthetic but that's all I got from this film. It was like one of those "moodboard" posts I see on tumblr sometimes. »

« Perhaps due to avant-garde film studies' indebtedness to art history and literary studies, biography plays an integral role in much of avant-garde film scholarship. When combined with traditional understandings of feminist and gay and lesbian politics, whereby declaring allegiance and identification with such causes (or, at least, knowledge of filmmaker's sexual practices, despite any disavowal, as in the case of Kenneth Anger) is given precedence, many women's experimental films that might otherwise be read as "lesbian" have not been. » make it gay

« For Atkinson and other "political lesbians," lesbian potentiality was a generic potentiality. It did not precipitate from the lived experiences and knowledges of lesbians in the present. Such a radical feminist approach to lesbian existence becomes a temporal problem, the lesbian existing almost outside of time itself and therefore not truly existing as anything more than a concept. » this is a valid critique although i question the insinuation that there were no political lesbians who were also lived-experience lesbians

quit with the playful “we both know better”-ism; you can’t criticize someone for not appreciating fucking in its whole breadth and then defer on the question of how you like to fuck

« Although incredibly limited in its articulation of what produces sexual pleasure, » academics should not be allowed to write this phrase without a lengthy footnote about what unarticulated sexual pleasures they think are missing

what is “coming upside”

coming inside
coming out
coming upside
coming down

somehow we went from “feminism just means being really good friends with other women!” with a wink to “feminism just means being really good friends with other women!” with no wink

90s fashion was bad but 90s fashion on gay women was bad in a way that i want to fuck

this author is claiming that lesbianism effectively ended in the 90s as a coherent political concept but i would like to submit as a counterargument that dykes in the 90s were really fucking hot

(i’m reading a book by a young person on lesbian feminism, and realizing that my feelings on the subject might actually be part of a Pattern of young female-and-female-adjacent queer studies majors looking to the 70s and 80s with interest instead of dismissal)

young millennials and zoomers do not care about your fake queer/lesbian binary and they will make being a dyke cool again

watch out kids, lesbianism is coming back

« “Americans were playing a basic game — ‘Trump wants dirt on Biden,’” says Suriya Jayanti, chief of energy policy at the American Embassy in Kyiv at the time. “What was actually going on in Ukraine was this crazy web of shifting alliances and oligarch pockets and horse trading and back-stabbing, and in our American myopia we had limited understanding that if a tree falls in the forest and America is not there to hear it, it still falls.” » you’d think we would have learned this lesson a while ago, yet

« This week, Mr. Biden and the White House Twitter feed boasted that the president had delivered a large increase in Social Security checks to retirees this year. That increase is an adjustment for cost of living — and it is the result of prices rising faster on Mr. Biden’s watch than they have in four decades » lmao that’s one way to spin it

tryna get better for my comrades

people just, like… don’t keep their drafts…

as a teenager when i was first really getting started writing i strongly believed that capturing the Process was as important as creating an End Product and it is only as an adult that i have really come to realize how entirely atypical that mentality is in the writing world

my posts are correct you cowards; i’m the one who is wrong