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Catgirls from 1390-1352 BCE

Four statues of the Goddess Sakhmet, a cat-headed feminine figure, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I do think my favorite, though, is “fricatrice.” Just glorious.

#amResearching #Queer #Lesbian #History #WeHaveAlwaysBeenHere

Faaascinating article on words used to describe lesbians and lesbian sex in the historical record.

It's short, but the shorter version is: OED lies about the frequency and use of these terms, giving the false impression that lesbians are a modern phenomenon when in fact they're right there in the historical record, and always have been.

One of the words in longest use? Just "lesbian."

#amResearching #Queer #Lesbian #History #WeHaveAlwaysBeenHere

https://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/oed-editions/oed-online/re-launched/case-study-terms-lesbianism/

Happy #PrideMonth.

#Pride #HappyPride #lgbtq 🌈 #lgbtqiaplus #Reminder #NonBinaryPride #PronounsMatter #WeHaveAlwaysBeenHere

Cartoon of an armed robot, marked 'Pronouns,' and a whimpering child hiding under a desk, marked 'Grown adult men'.

This is why it's important. Happy #PrideMonth.

#Pride #HappyPride #lgbtq 🌈 #lgbtqiaplus #Reminder #WeHaveAlwaysBeenHere

"Why don't we have a straight pride?"
Highlighted below in red are all the countries where it's illegal to be heterosexual, where people are ridiculed, beaten, tortured, imprisoned, and in some cases murdered for being heterosexual.
Image is of a world map with all the countries marked in white. There's no dot of red among them.

Happy #PrideMonth

#Pride #LGBTQIA #LoveIsLove #WeHaveAlwaysBeenHere #Reminder

"Why do they have to shove it in my face?"
Translation: "I liked i better when you were invisible and I could pretend you didn't exist."
Image is of a whole bunch of inclusivity flags.

"It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life." - #EmmaGoldman, in a letter to her friend, #MagnusHirschfeld.

#WeHaveAlwaysBeenHere.

#queerliberation #queerhistory #queer #anarchaqueer #queeranarchism #queeranarchy #queeranarchist #anarchafeminism #anarchafeminist #anarchy #anarchism

"She was the first and only woman, indeed the first and only American, to take up the defense of homosexual love before the general public." - #MagnusHirschfeld, writing about his friend, #EmmaGoldman.

#WeHaveAlwaysBeenHere.

#queerliberation #anarchaqueer #anarchafeminism #anarchafeminist #queeranarchism #queeranarchy #queeranarchist #queer #anarchism #anarchy #anarchist #queerhistory