New lino print! Based on an old poster that I saw online but the source of which I couldn’t track down. They’re up in my shop if anyone’s interested! (shop link in tumblr header)
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“DYKES AGAINST RACISM EVERYWHERE,” Women’s Lib Rally, 1982. // “BLACK LESBIANS,” Lesbian Strength March, London, June 1985.
jill posner, photographing butch, from dagger: on butch women, edited by Lily Burana, Roxxie, and Linnea Due, Cleis Press, 1994
[Jill Posner is a British photojournalist whose work has been published internationally in publications ranging from On Our Backs to The New York Times and The Village Voice, and in anthologies like Stolen Glances, a lesbian photo collection. She has published two collections of photographs of political graffiti, Spray It Loud and Louder Than Words, (Pandora Press).
The photographic process is for me a type of seduction. Not a sexual seduction, but a process of asking and coaxing someone to reveal herself, reel by reel. I find it hard to ask a butch to reveal herself because it makes me feel vulnerable. Perhaps I’m uncomfortable with even the hint of a sexual dynamic being present with another butch— and there can be a sexual aura during a photo shoot. It’s less threatening for me to ask a femme to be more daring, more explicit, and though I am attracted to femme women, there is less of a sexual charge during a photo shoot. I wish I had more rapport with butches because I love to photograph them and I’m always excited by the results.
People have said that I’ve been experimenting with genderfuck for years in my work. I’ve always resisted that. I am ambivalent about the issue of gender dysphoria, the idea of gender fluidity. I’d like to photograph the process of someone’s transition from female—]
“Once I learned that two-spirit was a term coined by our own native people then I knew it was something that I could embrace"
Great read (and great photos!) from Fusion:
thinking about this picture from 1975 taken in san fran on this day period
Monique Wittig (1935-2003) was a French writer and feminist theorist. Her novels exclusively depict women and are considered feminist and lesbian classics.
She has written numerous novels, short stories and essays, mostly dealing with feminist themes. She is a main theorist of material feminism and coined the phrase ‘heterosexual contract’, where the patriarchal society exists as a result of the norms existing between men and women.
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“the gay community was never racist”
shit y’all still are to this day
jplachowski
:/
atmospher-ca
I’m glad my post got around.. ppl need to see some history
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In 1984, both African American and Asian American groups fought discriminatory door policies at bars across the city. Henry Chappell reported a double-carding incident at theWatering Hole on Folsom. Wearing a dress, heels, and a shawl, Chappell, an African-American self-identified transvestite, was asked for two forms of picture IDs as a means of excluding him from attendance. BWMT hoped that San Francisco would adopt a regulatory model for admittance based on Atlanta’s carding ordinance, which mandated that no bar could demand more than one valid ID per person.3 In part due to pressure from such actions, the City eventually passed a similar ordinance.
Around the same time, the Asian Lesbian and Gay Alliance (ALGA) conducted an informal study of various S.F. gay bars. One of the organizers later recalled, “White guys could sail through with no restrictions, but once color was added to the mix, the barriers went up.” The Midnight Sun and Castro Station were Castro bars particularly notable for their anti-Asian discriminatory practices. When confronted, the owners rationalized their multiple ID policies by claiming that it was difficult to visually discern Asian men’s age.ALGA picketed the Midnight Sun, attracting media coverage with placards such as“Discrimination in the Gay Community Demeans Us All.” During a KPFA radio debate,one participant recalled a bar owner claiming, “Your people don’t drink,” and “It’s a cruise bar; we would lose other clientele because they don’t want to cruise your type.”
-”Racism and Reaction in the Castro: A Brief, Incomplete History”
reveredsky-deactivated20171222
“the gay community was never racist”
shit y’all still are to this day
jplachowski
:/
atmospher-ca
I’m glad my post got around.. ppl need to see some history
magical-flying-moron
In 1984, both African American and Asian American groups fought discriminatory door policies at bars across the city. Henry Chappell reported a double-carding incident at theWatering Hole on Folsom. Wearing a dress, heels, and a shawl, Chappell, an African-American self-identified transvestite, was asked for two forms of picture IDs as a means of excluding him from attendance. BWMT hoped that San Francisco would adopt a regulatory model for admittance based on Atlanta’s carding ordinance, which mandated that no bar could demand more than one valid ID per person.3 In part due to pressure from such actions, the City eventually passed a similar ordinance.
Around the same time, the Asian Lesbian and Gay Alliance (ALGA) conducted an informal study of various S.F. gay bars. One of the organizers later recalled, “White guys could sail through with no restrictions, but once color was added to the mix, the barriers went up.” The Midnight Sun and Castro Station were Castro bars particularly notable for their anti-Asian discriminatory practices. When confronted, the owners rationalized their multiple ID policies by claiming that it was difficult to visually discern Asian men’s age.ALGA picketed the Midnight Sun, attracting media coverage with placards such as“Discrimination in the Gay Community Demeans Us All.” During a KPFA radio debate,one participant recalled a bar owner claiming, “Your people don’t drink,” and “It’s a cruise bar; we would lose other clientele because they don’t want to cruise your type.”
-”Racism and Reaction in the Castro: A Brief, Incomplete History”
omg
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REblog if you are Asexual, support Asexuals, or spend most of your time actually thinking about Superheroes.
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This is how I like to imagine future mornings. Coffee and cigarettes with the gal-pal.
‘Black Lesbian’, poster designed and printed by Ingrid Pollard, 1984
[Image Description = Laminated poster featuring the words ‘Black Lesbian,’ and the word ‘lesbian’ repeated in various languages.]
“Ingrid Pollard was born in Georgetown, Guyana in 1953 and moved to England when she was four years old. She has lived in London working as a photographer, printer, media artist and researcher. In the 1980s she was part of a group of black British women artists who exhibited their work together in exhibitions like The Thin Black Line at the ICA in 1985. Pollard was also part of significant collaborative ventures between black British photographers, including Polareyes, D-Max and the Association of Black Photographers (now Autograph ABP), of which she was a founding member.
Pollard became interested in photography when she took her father’s box camera on a camping trip. Some of her first photographs were of the sewage works and wood yards along the Lee Valley Canal, taken as part of an O-Level geography project. Pollard defines her work as ‘a social practice concerned with representation, history and landscape with reference to race, difference and the materiality of lens based media’.”
