tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57023318258161211152024-02-07T21:13:18.582-08:00DykesforDykesMasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.comBlogger426125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-17607015313534365422021-12-12T18:09:00.001-08:002021-12-12T18:09:40.737-08:00War on Two Fronts<p> This was written when Trump was still in Office, but the tactics are still true, of how both the Rightwing and TRA Movements still act. Both very patriarchal and male run:</p><p><br /></p><p>War on Two Fronts:</p><p><br /></p><p>I am fighting a War on Two fronts. One is against conservatism, Trump and the rightwing idelogy forcing itself on us, on women, on immigrants, minorities, Jews, gays, with its MALE and Male White Supremacist privilege bearing down on us, the dictatorship of the Trump Administration and his hunting of immigrants....but next will be Lesbians and Gays and anybody different or Resisting...</p><p><br /></p><p>The Second War are the TIMS/ MTFS, born males who expect Lesbians and women to kowtow to them. The tragedy of young women transitioning in droves to run away from woMANhood and the oppression we all face for being Female, instead of in Solidarity...</p><p><br /></p><p>More and more these two struggles are becoming One. TIMS/MTFS using entirely MALE tactics of threats of violence, including sexual violence and ostracism against us resistant Lesbians. One form of fascism, Trump and his supporters another. </p><p>BOTH are males who do not like recalcitrant women who defy them...both will call names and threaten violence and control. Both have thug like elements.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both are immensely Patriarchal.</p><p> - FeistyAmazon</p><p>Addendum: Writing this piece and at some point expanding on it was a shift in consciousness about a week ago while I mulled it over in my brain. It was like looking through binoculars where you see two separate scenes, then focus them and get one scene and a much greater depth of field. </p><p><br /></p><p>The tactics used are exactly the same, by a very similar MENtality. The same fascistic unquestioning cult like MALE propaganda used to control women as a whole in both circumstances and anybody who is dissident to the dominant cult like narrative: Lesbians, radical feminists, gay men who want to socialize sexually ONLY with other bio gay men, and same for others who would not date trans nor want the opposite SEX in intimate quarters!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Or kids and teens pressured to transition. Most who would end up as tomboys for females, Lesbian or gay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both groups mean us real harm. From the term Terf, to feminazi, to controlling abortion, birth control, female dress and expression, to freedom from sexual assault and harsssment, or equal pay for equal work, to supporting fundie religious thinking...</p>MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-37761031834222877412021-12-03T04:09:00.000-08:002021-12-03T04:09:26.276-08:00The B.S. Us Butches Go Through<p> Bodil Wandt sorry but us Butches go through an extra layer of bullshit. Reread the article. THIS is my reality AS a Butch Dyke</p><p>And for MANY Butches both in the US, England,Europe Asia, Africa, South America and Middle East. We are particularly targeted for hate crimes AND BY the Gender Industry. We REFUSE and reject femininity and do NOT accomodate the male gaze as she states in her article and targeted as the most visible of Lesbians for " corrective rape" which is brutal and often murderous, other forms of violence against us by men, denied many jobs, thus a decent livelihood or concentrated in certain industries which grudgingly accomodate us like Construction and Factory Work,because we are " unacceptable females wholesalle rejecting femininity makeup, dresses, heels and the like, basically outlaw women in het society, CONSTANTLY TOLD " You just wanna be a man". No, WE ARE ANOTHER FORM OF WOMONHOOD DEFYING MALE RULES OF WHAT A WOMAN CAN BE, AND TAKING UP. OUR SPACE, LOVING WOMEN, AS MEN DO, WITHOUT ACCOMODATING THE MALE GAZE IN ANY CAPACITY</p><p>Thus other women fear and despise us because we act freely as men do; but we pay the price. </p><p><br /></p><p>EVERY Butch I know was a tomboy and rejected femininity at young age and agreeing to be " lesser than" or conforming. We Fought For our space our standing in a societies that ultimately rejects women like us. </p><p>Thusly some decide its just easier to " pass" as men. Not all of us are into Femmes, some of us s are into other Butches, or both. I am one of those, the great Lesbian secret. My Sexuality IS My OWN. And ONLY another Butch Dyke, WORLDWIDE, truly inderstands me. We been here for millenia, but in one or two generations we are at risk of being wiped out. By both hate crimes, and especially by false promises made to the youth of hormones and useless surgeries for a false fake " manhood" they will NEVER achieve. </p><p>WE ARE THE REAL DEAL!!!!!</p>MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-71879876072986052502021-12-02T13:24:00.007-08:002021-12-02T13:41:09.370-08:00What Butches Are Facing- Kays Article Guest post<div>For all true blue Butch Dykes, EXCELLENT ARTICLE written by one of OUR OWN!!</div><div> - FeistyAmazon </div><div><br /></div><a href="https://lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/12/kay-knight-butch-lesbians-must-be-tough-not-in-a-stereotypical-strong-unfeeling-way-we-are-absolutely-under-attack-and-we-need-grit-to-withstand-the-pressure/" target="_blank">https://lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/12/kay-knight-butch-lesbians-must-be-tough-not-in-a-stereotypical-strong-unfeeling-way-we-are-absolutely-under-attack-and-we-need-grit-to-withstand-the-pressure/</a>MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-41421726517664023162021-09-22T06:09:00.004-07:002021-09-22T06:14:32.202-07:00On being a Dyke JewWitch<p> Sister, as a NYC Dyke JewWitch( raised Jewish in NYC, them noved to Colorado at 12,, in 1972, then thevSF Bay Area at 23 in 1984., the Dyke Witches brought me OUT on Colrado. As a kid I knew more about the Greek religion, and studied in particular She who Called to me in 5th Grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>I base my life on Amazon Mysteries which I was initially brought ontowhen I got into the Martial Artsat the tender age of 14 in 1974, achieving my Black Belt the same year the DykeWitches brought me into the Craft, Goddess, and womynscircles and Mysteries.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been on that Path ever since. However I go through the same conniptions you do, I completely relate. My Jewish Reform family pretty much only went to Synagogue on High Holidays. The rest of the Holidays we celebrated at home or with my Grandparents. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am proud of my NYC Jewish heritage, it hasshspedmy personality and I modrled myself after my strong assertive dominant Jewish Grandmother who dearly loved me. So did my Grandfather. My relationship with my Mother wasmuch more problematic as she wasSouthern and convertedfor the sake of us kids,but never believed in the religion or took on the heritage. North and South, sometimeslike Civil War in my home. ...</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case my answer is to.look to Catal Huyuk a Matriarchal Culture that lasted 1000 years in peace, one of the Undefended Great Goddess cutures....</p><p><br /></p><p>I will continue with my Amazon Mysteries, honoring the Goddess of 10,000 Names, sizes, colors, temperaments and aspects of Womonhood and She who.is my Matron, and the Cycles and Seasons of the Moon, Sun and Mother Earth....as well as my Jewish heritage.</p><p>Thank you for informing me what the High Holidays are REALLY all about.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Charge of the Star Goddess what I Consider one of the most important pieces of Goddess liturgy, it says " I demand aught of Sacrifice, ...for behold I have been withyou since the Beginning...". Thats good enough for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Though still, of course I want to be written in the Book of Life every year, including this year, as hard as this past year has been, dodging the bullet of COVID. My own spouse was not so lucky, and now she has longterm COVID. </p><p> - Blessed Be Sister, AND Happy New Year. - FeistyAmazon</p>MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-4236060944334434412021-08-16T14:45:00.007-07:002021-08-16T14:45:45.822-07:00NOT GNC, We ARE Butch Dykes! All Female, Out Loud n Proud!!!<p> Butch, not " gnc" gender nonconforming according to WHO? The strait world. But we fit right into the Lesbian world which has accomodated womyn of all stripes from us hardcore Butches to high Femmes and every kind of Lesbian in between. But first Butches have to learn to love themselves enough AS a womon as the older Butch Lesbians taught me to do, especially those into Goddess worship and some level of basic Feminism and Lesbian and Amazon pride. We have our OWN unique role for the empowerment of ourselves, for womyn and Mother Earth as a whole. We claim our Yonis and our pleasure, and our bodies and sex and sexuality. </p><p><br /></p><p>Coming out in THAT milieu helped to teach Butch Lesbians especially they had a place and a long esteemed role in the Community. As the most visible of Lesbians, as protectors of other women, as sexual orientation initiators and teachers. </p><p>As the strong backbone of builders and activists.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seeing so many handsome Butch Lesbians build Michfest every year in the films is delightful, and the Butches ALSO mentored me into the Trades, and advocated for me when I had difficulties....</p><p><br /></p><p>We need to build our Lesbian communities strong again. For ALL Lesbians so these young women come out AS Lesbians and feel they have a place as womyn loving womyn, NOT feel they need transition to survive or because of peer pressure.</p>MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-24413123615457413242021-08-02T05:23:00.003-07:002021-08-02T05:23:57.760-07:00LESBIAN GUEST BLOG E.B.<p>I’ve been thinking about this.... There are many human ways to love women. But the name and the way that I claim is Lesbian. None of the other words are right for me, though we probably share Dyke. While as a young woman who did not know what Lesbianism was, I tried to be with men but it never worked. I have been with women for more than 40 years. And I only am attracted to and love women born women romantically. And the word for that is Lesbia. Not bisexual. Not queer. Not poly or pan sexual Or any other academic titles people go by these days. Lesbian.</p><p><br /></p><p>And for me that has nothing to do with gender. It has to do with biological- XX - chromosome sex. </p><p><br /></p><p>While gender expression might be something to play with, For example the many decades of Butch/Femme energy and herstory in lesbian community— For me that’s all just a subset of the wbw loving wbw community, which is Lesbian.</p><p>It is something narrow and specific. For me and for other women, though I hear you not for everybody. Lesbian is a female- XX- homosexual. That’s me.</p><p>When this word is used for other configurations of humans loving humans then there is no word left for me. I disappear. There is no way to define who and what I am and how I love. Or how my sisters love who love the same way. It’s not the same as other ways, though love of course is love is love.</p><p>And it is useful to be able to name your identity. It is how we find ourselves and each other. - E.B.</p>MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-47526293059694799252021-01-27T14:23:00.000-08:002021-01-27T14:23:18.883-08:00COVID 19 AND LACK OF COMMUNITY <p> I'm not even sure where to start with this one but the isolation is overwhelming its bad enough living in this teeny tiny town at least by New York City and Bay Area standards. Also in Denver all priced out of those areas and of course who knows how much work is available considering Covid plus the dangers of covert are increased in such dense city environments. </p><p> In any case this is a stream-of-consciousness dictated share.</p><p> Well the TWIW crowd has had their way so we keep fighting that along with these crazy right wingers who still believe you know who won, when he didn't. We have a traitorous one, Adrian Smith.</p><p>To find lesbians is almost impossible around here. I see them but to have found them, talk to them, hang out with them, almost impossible so have been reaching out to my women's spirituality community and doing Zoom with them every few weeks. </p><p>We talk on Zoom and I haven't done a meeting in ages I miss that too. I could do that also on Zoom if I wanted to. </p><p>My whole life has been online for the last 7 years that it just is not appealing to me in the least. I've been isolating seriously. Isolating except for my coworker, my partner and sometimes my partner's family but then I guess that's what we're supposed to do is like we're only supposed to socialize with our bubbles so everything else is online.</p><p> I dream about a lesbian community; who knows if there are even gonna be festivals this summer and if I'll be able to go to them, and healthy enough to go to them. </p><p>I can't let sleep on the ground anymore I have to be in a camp or something some kind of bed.</p><p>So having community is really hard almost impossible.</p><p> Our lesbian communities have been eradicated anyway and we know why you know cause everybody is changing gender can't figure out who they are.</p><p>Don't ever ever ask me my pronouns ever. Don't ever refer to me as cis or queer. And all T words are verboten. Other than that I'm glad to have a beautiful female vice president in Kamala Harris. </p><p> Back to community: so I have done some rituals online did 1 with EWF and with Ava Parks and with the Bind Trump group and that's been very satisfying at least those folks are real true activist witches I love it. a</p><p>Activist witches which is that actually are using their witchcraft with a real purpose beyond themselves.</p><p>Because the rest of it is like O let's focus on abundance let's focus on health let's focus on my personal life and what I can get out of it you know I've done so much of that kind of ritual I needed it then I've I appreciate all the abundance rituals that She's granted me abundance and prosperity and healing. I appreciate that but I also appreciate the kind of work that goes beyond the individual because from what I understand is it's personal, community, worldwide; so it works like a ever rippling pool outwards and work on community and nation really gives purpose much like the English witches who stopped Hitler from invading England this was the same kind of thing is stopping you know who who shall not be named what are those dirty T words who is about to be impeached but now the republicans do not wanna imppeach him but hes gone down in infamy.</p><p>You've got collusion inside the House and Senate and of course violent collusionists outside of it so it's a 2 way street. </p><p>We've got the same inside and outside the lesbian community so it's very hard for us to have community as sellouts certainly want males in our community. </p><p>And especially to convince young women that you know what is female which only yoni is female repeat after me Only yoni is female. Let's say it one more time only yoni is female. NO OTHER SEX ORGAN.</p><p> Everything else is a social construct. So we got invasion from within and without so I don't know where to have my powerpoints to connect with true community truly like minded sisters and I so need them and I need them in my life and I need touch which I'm not get much of except for my kitties. I love my kitties and my piano which I need to practice more often helps me takes off steam gives me an outlet of creativity.</p><p>But I need real community leather sisters, Witch sisters, radical dykes sisters you know the diversity that mich fest had to offer the female diversity let's put it that way that which fest had to offer.</p><p>And it saddens me it's gone but I'm hoping that some of these other littler festivals will be able to gather once again even if I just go where all Amazon's go welcome HOME where I could see them eye to eye as in visually. This Bach is about ready to make me cry I think I'm gonna have to put on something a little jazzier because this Bach is just too sad.</p><p>I am happy that in this recession I have a job it worries me because I am exposed to the public a lot but I'm religious about hand washing and Mask wearing after all I am an enforcer.</p><p>I read all about it all the time.</p><p>I keep to the 3 rules but it makes me anti social the 3 rules wear masks both parties to socially distance keep your space for me prefer be 6' or more OK sometimes that doesn't happen up at a window but at least there's outside air. I wash my hands with handcleaner and when I go the bathroom thoroughly under the sink wash water so that's the 3 rules so it's feeding into my anti social personality keep your space for me keep your distance I guess a good New Yorker if they keep space for me don't come up don't be hittin up on me yeah that's the good walking at night in the middle of the night keep your space for me keep my bubble my goddess is walking with me protecting me you know that visualizations that I've taught so many times to so many women is you know whether your bubbles 3" or 10' when you walk in in the middle of night and walking outside like getting off the Bart train walking whole nobody is to come near you and you will defend your space welp that's exactly what this is like living in a small town but like you keep your space to me could you aint getting me sick OK and you aint gonna be my typhoid Mary or for this factory an enforcer that's my job is to enforce these things me and doctor fauci, he could do the research and I read the research. We all have to have a hero in these dark times he and Kamala Harris are mine. </p><p><br /></p><p>OK so back to community how do we create lesbian community and tell me I'm done reaching out to these ditches around here I hate to say that I mean I don't like call women cuss words but it's just I given up around here then on him nothing common with me anyway I'm way too different and pagan a Butch I'm out loud and proud I'm of Jewish heritage and never Christian I like classical music Need the cultural creative's I mean if I could afford it I just go right on back to Boulder. Back to the beautiful mountains. Boulder. I don't even know a folder would be home anymore though I don't even know if Boulder would be home anymore because the rich bitch's live there now and even my brother can't take it and hes lived there forever he didn't know how good he had it live in there now hes stuck in mexico I mean New Mexico somewhere up in the high desert in a town of 10000 so he has a worse me yes it worse me I mean at least this town is 30000 you know little class fairly well educated I guess working to middle class It's a nice little town but not very interesting people but then I don't get out much anymore can't get out much anymore and the gay folks are like well they're all queer so in all the lesbians are completely tied in with everybody else they don't realize being yet lesbian a special that there's a reason us lesbians get together with other lesbians and not just to have sex but because we share things in common like freedom for men freedom from men and the bonding that only woman to woman can do whether sexual emotional or spiritual are all free or all 3 for me it's all 3</p>MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-9170212410471361632020-10-14T07:28:00.002-07:002020-10-14T07:28:58.226-07:00Virtual Pride 2020, NOTHING to Do WithbLesbians of Any Color!!!<p> June 2020:</p><p>I am sooo fucking DONE watching all the Pride Homages to Black Lives Matter, EVEN FROM the queer woman founder Alicia( she calls herself queer) of Black Lives Matter and the Black Lesbian President Carolyn of San Francisco Pride. I just listened to their extensive conversation streaming in the live San Francisco Pride channel. I watched Denver Pride's channel yesterday, and came across a spontaneous New York Pride celebration by Black queers and trans EVERYWHERE they honored Black trans women aka bio males, as " the most oppressed" and founders of the Stonewall Revolution, Marsha P. and Sylvia Rivera. Black Butch Lesbian Storme DeLarvaie was barely mentioned or as an afterthought as an instigator and founder of the Stonewall Rebellion which Pride is founded on. In fact Black LESBIANS were INVISIBLE as seen as an oppressed group, even though they are the backbone of much of the activism. They were not permitted to speak as Black Lesbians or by and for Black Lesbians as a group. And Black Lesbians have made SUBSTANTIAL contributions to the Lesbian/ Gay movements!</p><p><br /></p><p>No it was all about " Black Trans Lives Matter Because They Are The Most Oppressed". And did those male individuals just LOVE the attention as Black Lesbians and women stood in the background.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look, sex workers arent my heros, being in sex work as all too many Black trans " women" are, puts one in extreme danger, like it puts anybody else, especially ANY woman in great danger of rape, or murder. This is not unique to trans" women". Bio women and bio women of color are raped or murdered every day just living in patriarchy by patriarchal men. Being in prostitution makes one far more vulnerable, no matter WHAT kind of body you have, or " gendered expression."</p><p><br /></p><p>The founder of Black Lives Matter in this conversation with the current Black Lesbian President of San Francisco Pride, identified herself as " cis", what we would call femme or hetronormative in appearance, as compared to the wild feminized expressions of black trans "women". However I do NOT consider the Butch/ Stud President of San Francisco Pride either " Cis" or hetronormative. She was fully Butch with a jacket on and embroidered " Stud" on it. She may not want to transition( thank Goddess, a few Butches/ Studs left in San Francisco proud to be Lesbian and Female), BUT IN NO WAY IS SHE SO CALLED " cis" either. All female proud Butches are in this dilemma, neither cis or trans, BUT FEMALE.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottomline I'm trying to say that its Lesbians of Color who are truly oppressed worldwide, have a look at my profile and my Pride essay about the Egyptian Lesbian and the horrors that happened to her once she came out. Read Listening2Lesbians whom are documenting the WORLDWIDE oppression of Lesbians. Lesbians are raped and murdered or beat up, ostracized, married off to men or kicked out of their families for coming out and loving women. They are tortured and executed as well by State powers in oppressive countries. And they are NOT adding to their risk greatly by prostituting themselves. Just coming out and being who they are is ENOUGH.They can also be impregnated against their will, something no trans"woman" EVER has to worry about.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oppression is oppression and affects various communities differently, but it is so MALE of them to hog the narrative as " Black trans women are the MOST OPPRESSED". While leaving Black Lesbians, Black Lesbian Butches/Studs( term they prefer), and even Black Ftms completely invisible. Or the contributions of Black Butch Lesbian Storme DeLarvaie as an afterthought if even acknowledged at all as one of the first instigators defying cop abuse and control at the beginning of the Stonewall Rebellion. </p><p><br /></p><p>Its Lesbian and womanhating whether it comes from white male or black male patriarchy, even if those black males consider themselves queens or trans.... - Amazon</p>MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-6281759122095579762020-10-14T07:20:00.001-07:002020-10-14T07:20:51.591-07:00Virtual Pride 2020, not For Lesbians or Butches of Any Color!<p> I am sooo fucking DONE watching all the Pride Homages to Black Lives Matter, EVEN FROM the queer woman founder Alicia( she calls herself queer) of Black Lives Matter and the Black Lesbian President Carolyn of San Francisco Pride. I just listened to their extensive conversation streaming in the live San Francisco Pride channel. I watched Denver Pride's channel yesterday, and came across a spontaneous New York Pride celebration by Black queers and trans EVERYWHERE they honored Black trans women aka bio males, as " the most oppressed" and founders of the Stonewall Revolution, Marsha P. and Sylvia Rivera. Black Butch Lesbian Storme DeLarvaie was barely mentioned or as an afterthought as an instigator and founder of the Stonewall Rebellion which Pride is founded on. In fact Black LESBIANS were INVISIBLE as seen as an oppressed group, even though they are the backbone of much of the activism. They were not permitted to speak as Black Lesbians or by and for Black Lesbians as a group. And Black Lesbians have made SUBSTANTIAL contributions to the Lesbian/ Gay movements!</p><p><br /></p><p>No it was all about " Black Trans Lives Matter Because They Are The Most Oppressed". And did those male individuals just LOVE the attention as Black Lesbians and women stood in the background.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look, sex workers arent my heros, being in sex work as all too many Black trans " women" are, puts one in extreme danger, like it puts anybody else, especially ANY woman in great danger of rape, or murder. This is not unique to trans" women". Bio women and bio women of color are raped or murdered every day just living in patriarchy by patriarchal men. Being in prostitution makes one far more vulnerable, no matter WHAT kind of body you have, or " gendered expression."</p><p><br /></p><p>The founder of Black Lives Matter in this conversation with the current Black Lesbian President of San Francisco Pride, identified herself as " cis", what we would call femme or hetronormative in appearance, as compared to the wild feminized expressions of black trans "women". However I do NOT consider the Butch/ Stud President of San Francisco Pride either " Cis" or hetronormative. She was fully Butch with a jacket on and embroidered " Stud" on it. She may not want to transition( thank Goddess, a few Butches/ Studs left in San Francisco proud to be Lesbian and Female), BUT IN NO WAY IS SHE SO CALLED " cis" either. All female proud Butches are in this dilemma, neither cis or trans, BUT FEMALE.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottomline I'm trying to say that its Lesbians of Color who are truly oppressed worldwide, have a look at my profile and my Pride essay about the Egyptian Lesbian and the horrors that happened to her once she came out. Read Listening2Lesbians whom are documenting the WORLDWIDE oppression of Lesbians. Lesbians are raped and murdered or beat up, ostracized, married off to men or kicked out of their families for coming out and loving women. They are tortured and executed as well by State powers in oppressive countries. And they are NOT adding to their risk greatly by prostituting themselves. Just coming out and being who they are is ENOUGH.They can also be impregnated against their will, something no trans"woman" EVER has to worry about.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oppression is oppression and affects various communities differently, but it is so MALE of them to hog the narrative as " Black trans women are the MOST OPPRESSED". While leaving Black Lesbians, Black Lesbian Butches/Studs( term they prefer), and even Black Ftms completely invisible. Or the contributions of Black Butch Lesbian Storme DeLarvaie as an afterthought if even acknowledged at all as one of the first instigators defying cop abuse and control at the beginning of the Stonewall Rebellion. </p><p><br /></p><p>Its Lesbian and womanhating whether it comes from white male or black male patriarchy, even if those black males consider themselves queens or trans....</p>MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-89932559640043273632020-09-26T17:09:00.000-07:002020-09-26T17:09:17.156-07:00Butch ripoffThough I dont' agree with the femininity thing, because that too is a social construct, and something I've resisted all my life, I'm fully a Butch Dyke and proud..and sorry, but Butch(as it relates to those born bio-female), is a term related to Butch Dykes, the original "genderqueers" so to speak, that is, who go outside of the straitjacketed box men put women into, whether they are straight, bi or Lesbian.
Butch is NOT a term for someone who is FTM. The term there is male/masculine/dude what have you. To use our term for those of us born Female living as a different aspect of FEMALENESS, is to coopt our rich Lesbian culture, whether you're Butch on Butch, Butch/Femme, both or all of the above and everything inbetween.
No Butch Dyke can compete with FTM's on the scale of 'male appearing'. <div><br /></div><div>And it's a very, very funny sick little secret, that many, many FTM's these days are really Femme, or feminine in the real sense of the word, and since they can't keep as Butch Dykes or are basically fag hags and male lovers at heart, transition to then seem more 'masculine, male, "butch"' than real, honest to goodness true blue Butch Dykes! </div><div><br /></div><div> STOP ripping off and coopting our cultures, and being on the top Butch 100, because I'm sorry, on that scale, NO FTM belongs on a Butch scale...you have left that scale once you decided to take those hormones and have those surgeries. And especially if now you're fucking gay men. There are many, many FTM's I've seen that have a one down power over relationship with "gay"/bi men, who are the ones running the show, just as if you're a hetero female fucking a straight/bi dude! Bonus holes and all.
See, the trans insanity, IS insanity and makes no logical sense anymore. </div><div><br /></div><div>Used to be those who could not fit into the Butch Dyke community, were just too male acting, identifying and appearing, quietly transitioned and took their lives up as 'men', and haunted the worlds of bio-men, trying to 'fit in' with them. They didn't pull on Lesbian purse strings, to stay behind and haunt our communities with their maleness, wanting the best of both worlds, your cake and eating it too: when it's convenient, crashing our Dyke/women only spaces, and EXPECTING us to cater to your 'male' asses, and then going and 'passing' in the world of men when it's convenient, selling our women and dyke spaces up the river for queer everything for YOUR selfish convenience. </div><div><br /></div><div> No, the early FTM's were respectful. They saw themselves as dudes, left the Dyke community, and lived their lives as dudes out in the world. But see, you simply haven't the guts to do that for us, instead you coopt our Butch Dyke identities, our women only and Dyke spaces, and attempt to convince any hardcore Butch that she too is more male than female(that Butches aren't really female) by the use of male names, pronouns, hormones and surgeries ultimately, and then invite yourselves to get fucked both by dudes and dykes, exposing us to gay/bi male diseases ect. ect. ect. You are NO ALLIES of True Blue Butch Dykes! You are coopters, just like this Buck is...
Go live your life, but don't rip us off!
-MasterAmazon</div>MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-8584865435173671792020-09-26T17:04:00.000-07:002020-09-26T17:04:11.349-07:00Queering the Great Rite Workshop at Pantheacon I was disturbed by how she asked all of us our 'genders' or 'sexes' but NOT our identifications, and in that moment I began to see how it's all in the framing. How one frames the question, what choices another gives, how one person limits another by not speaking the words that acknowledge a multitude of existences, how one follows a party line, whether it be religious/spiritual, social, political, sexual or otherwise.<br />
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I felt hemmed in by her preconceptions. For her, there was ONE WAY to use the Chalice and the Blade, and I will say that I have never participated in a 'Fucking the Cup' ritual, as a Lesbian Separatist Dianic friend of mine whose been around in the Pagan community says...it always seemed rather distasteful to me, and entirely heterosexist. Nor was an altar cloth set out, candles, or even a meditation on imagining our immense diversity of experiences as Lesbian/Gay/Queer folks, and how we combine our Sexuality and Spirituality together in a Sacred Way.<br />
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MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-8634202327338761632020-09-26T16:58:00.000-07:002020-09-26T16:58:11.070-07:00Listening to Lesbians: Same Sex Attraction is not bigotryHere it is:<br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Listening to Lesbians our voices matter</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Banning lesbians – same sex attraction is not bigotry</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">I have avoided writing about this because I know what the reaction can be like and I have seen what happens to women who do speak publicly about this.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">I have tried quite hard to discuss various issues WITHOUT addressing this because it is polarising, causes people to stop thinking, and leads to abuse and harassment. Moreover it is difficult to write anything nuanced on this topic without people misinterpreting and wilfully misrepresenting your words. And then there’s the ever-so-trendy hate that rains down on those that state publicly what others keep quiet about.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">But I know that not writing about this is being silenced. I have “allowed” myself to be silenced on this just as many other women have, because of potential fallout.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">And there is no amount of staying quiet that can keep us safe as lesbians, because there is an attempt from some to redefine the word lesbian to exclude us.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">This includes a clear attempt to coercively redraw lesbian women’s sexual boundaries and to silence the lesbians who protest this.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">I have no interest in defining and complicating others’ lives* but words have meanings and language matters.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">We cannot stay silent while we are told that we are bigots for being lesbian.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">To be a lesbian is to be a female who is romantically, emotionally and sexually attracted to other females. This is same-sex attraction.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">There are those who argue a different definition of this word.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">The debate hinges on</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">a) whether you think transwomen are women or not**</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">and</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">b) whether you think sexuality is attraction on the basis of gender*** or sex</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">If you think that sexuality is about same SEX attraction, you may have noticed something going on.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Women who say that they are lesbian and ONLY attracted to females are being told they are bigots, and are being abused on this basis.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">I don’t care if women are attracted to (and in relationships with) transwomen but what concerns me is the use of the word lesbian to describe that relationship because of the implications for same-sex attracted lesbians. My interest is solely caused by the implications for same-sex attracted lesbians of that language use – this is about the difference between self-affecting acts and other-affecting acts.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">There are real consequences if the word lesbian includes transwomen.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">When those of us who are same-sex attracted lesbians try to describe ourselves, our relationships or our sexuality, what word are we to use if we cannot use ‘lesbian’? If the word used for some time to describe us, as understood by most people, is no longer representative of us what language are we to use?</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">More than this, if the word lesbian cannot be used in a context that excludes transwomen then we are even more marginalised. And this is what I see happening, this is what has happened to women I know, what has happened to me.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Lesbians are being told they are bigots, transphobes, transmysogynists and TERFs for considering itACCEPTABLE for lesbians to be solely attracted to other females.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Originally when this was not such an extreme situation, I was not as concerned, assuming that using the word ‘female’ to specify same-sex attraction would be sufficient and unproblematic.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">However, this is now a problem for two reasons. Firstly, any number of transwomen define themselves as female, rendering the qualifier useless in some conversations. But for those who consider the word female to denote biological sex, it is apparently unacceptable to exclude “non-female lesbians”.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">In a lesbian group, amongst lesbians, I was told that it is transphobic for lesbians to be solely attracted to females. It is not a sexuality, apparently, it is a bigotry!! This happens repeatedly to lesbians around the world.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Lesbians must be able to name our own reality and we need that word to describe female-to-female same-sex attraction. We have no other word.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">For centuries we have been socially sanctioned for our sexuality, we have been closeted, persecuted, abused, correctively raped, and killed, solely on the basis of being lesbian. Compulsory heterosexuality has weighed heavily on us, and we have borne the burden of oppression as women AND as lesbians.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">And now we find that, in a lesbian community, being a dyke is suddenly outlawed?</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">In what way is this not just the continuation of compulsory heterosexuality?</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">When we are told that not being attracted to someone who was born male**** is immoral, this is exactly the same as being told that we are deviants for attraction to women and non-attraction to men, but it is now clothed in language that frames and proclaims us as oppressive for acknowledging biological facts and our own sexuality.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">I see young lesbians confused by this, trying to do the “right” thing. Baby dykes asking if being lesbian CANmean only being attracted to females, trying hard to be inclusive even in their own sexual experiences.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">FeistyAmazon on 05/07/2015 at 2:19 am</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Love love LOVE this!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!-FeistyAmazon</span><br />
<br />MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-66663639726108749362020-09-26T16:30:00.004-07:002020-09-26T16:30:52.233-07:00Rite of PassageWhy should the current rite of passage for a young Butch Dyke be taking<br />
Hormones, binding her breasts severely, flattening them to the world but wounding heart and lungs in the process?<br />
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Instead of coming into her youthful powerful fiery Amazonism she is trying to erase the Female from her body, the womonness from her mind, killing her female soul?<br />
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Being convinced she must have her breasts shorn from her body like so many strands of hair.<br />
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We Butches of the 70s and 80s settled for cutting our hair and wearing it short. It would always grow back...we claimed our Female Power, honored it at Festivals, at play parties, at women's houses, in the Mountains, under the Moons ad Stars with our Wild and Lovely Dyke Sisters!!!<br />
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Lesbians were dipped in chocolate, skinny dipped in streams and rivers, lakes and oceans, we danced and drummed our Female Power at bonfires in the woods....we Traveled to distant stars and came back..through an orgasm, a song, a chant, a roar, to the beat of the drum ruling our Wild Female Hearts!!!We KNEW OUR POWER, WITH EACH OTHER!!<br />
Sisters who could see inside our WomonSouls to the depths of our Oceanic Female Selves.....<br />
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<br />MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-15091102963234658472020-09-26T16:20:00.000-07:002020-09-26T16:20:09.285-07:00"Warrior Goddess" my response taken from a post at Medusa CoilsI'm proud to be a Dyke Amazon Warrior/Amazon Witch, and a lifelong martial artist. I combined all these aspects of me to define my spirituality and the spiritual mysteries I teach as an Amazon Warrior/Amazon Witch/Amazon Priestess....I believe the ancient Amazons were the last defenders of the Matriarchy, those peaceloving cultures of the Mother that were being badly trounced by some of the more patriarchal Greek, Roman and other cultures....
As in the martial arts, when I see that energy in the Sacred Female, at least the dieties I personally work with, it is always and primarily IN DEFENSE, and Self-Defense, not in aggression and conquering of other peoples and other ways of being, but protecting ourselves as womyn, our Sacred Mysteries and our Sacred places and Female spaces.....
I have never been a pacifist, but neither do I support warmongering either and the support of constant warmaking. This is PRECISELY WHY I'm into Goddess worship and ultimately worship the Goddess of 10,000 Names as She comes in many forms and temperaments, connecting with those that fit for me and that I need in my life and connect best with. The whole concept of a matriarchal peaceloving culture like Catal Huyuk lasting 1000 years without war is amazing to me...and what I long for. But as a Butch Dyke, just to survive, I need to be an AmazonWarrior, a Warrior for women and myself as the type of woman I am, just to survive in a world that would just extinguish my kind.
The other side of me is Amazon Priestess, where I serve Her and Her beautiful Planet and womyn and She guides and moves through me...these are deep deep vows I have taken being on this Path of Goddess worship for 30 years, ever since the Dyke Witches brought me out in 1981!MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-16547908513878480012020-09-26T14:15:00.003-07:002020-09-26T14:15:45.645-07:00Ruth Bader Ginsburg<p> There is a family connection to her death. Not only do I feel connected to RBG being a Bew York Jew born and raised,my father grew up the same time as her in Brooklyn and graduated in the same class as her from Cornell. He too, did his post grad at Columbia University.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like RGB, my Jewish Grandmother broke ground by becoming a School Principal for a public school in Brooklyn, before women were promoted to this position. I came up in NYC Feminism from the influence of strong women around me, from 1969 on, only being 9 years old. I heard the older girls talking about all this. </p><p>Women who believed in themselves, each other and in pursuing their careers and lives, in persisting and not being held back by men or patriarchal institutions and who persevered like RBG did, and my Grandmother, and Shirley Chisolm running for President! Such women were and are a deep inspiration to me!</p><p>It enabled me to pursue my Black Belt, and a career in the Trades. The laws Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped pass or supported in her work, enabled us to have our own careers, apartments, credit cards and independence AS independent Females, without needing male approval or males to sign for us.</p><p>I sure hope we can ADD to her legacy and her last wishes that herseat remain empty until after the new President is inaugurated.</p><p>Lets visualize her overlooking that seat along with Lilith, that it STAY EMPTY to such time that our new President BIDEN is inaugurated!! SO MOTE IT BE!!!</p><p> - The feistiest of AMAZONS</p>MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-40658736453728849312020-07-26T11:27:00.002-07:002020-07-26T11:34:56.226-07:00Jade River High Priestess of Reformed Congregation of the Goddess Passing<div> A beloved Priestess and founder of Reformed Congregation of the Goddess died. Sadly, I never got to meet her. Though I joined the Congregation one year. I have my card on my altar. - Amazon</div><div><br /></div><div> Here are her words:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Affirmation of Women's Spirituality - By Jade</div><div><br /></div><div>There is one circle of Women's energy, and I am a part of this energy. It is mine to direct. I wish to direct my energy:</div><div><br /></div><div>To Know:</div><div><br /></div><div>That I can create my own reality and that sending out a positive expectation will bring a positive result.</div><div>That the energy which I send out returns to me.</div><div>That there are an infinite number of possibilities for my life.</div><div>That every situation is an opportunity to practice and develop my craft.</div><div>That my instincts and intuition can be used to guide me.</div><div>That my only power is in the present.</div><div>That the Goddess or life force energy is within me.</div><div><br /></div><div>To Will:</div><div><br /></div><div>That I shall never use my energy unwisely or to limit the free will of another.</div><div>That I shall grow in wisdom, strength, knowledge, and understanding.</div><div>That I shall, as much as I am aware, act in honesty to myself and to others.</div><div>That I shall never use my energy for evil, aggressive, or manipulative ends and shall only use my energy for positive purposes.</div><div>That I shall grow to understand the cyclic, life affirming rhythms of the Earth and always act with love toward Her and all Her plants and creatures. </div><div>That I shall transform all negative in my environment. </div><div><br /></div><div>To Dare:</div><div><br /></div><div>To be myself.</div><div>To take responsibility for myself and my actions and know that, consciously or unconsciously, I have drawn situations to me.</div><div>To be strong and independent, even in the midst of a struggle.</div><div>To accept and understand those whose ethnic or racial background, social or economic class, appearance, or sexual preference are different from my own.</div><div>To stand firm and committed to Women and my spiritual beliefs even in times of isolation, pain, desperation, or negativity. </div><div><br /></div><div>And to understand when to speak and when to keep the silence.</div><div><br /></div><div>So mote it be.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you, Jade River, for all you gave during your time here on earth. Rest easy in the arms of Great Mother... until we meet again. You are an ancestress now. —Ava</div>MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-31771137391172155662020-04-02T18:58:00.001-07:002020-04-02T19:27:12.571-07:00Social Distancing, Social Boundaries for WomynIt came to me today that the whole "Social Distancing" thing felt oddly familiar. The last week I been trying to put it into practice.<br />
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Then the Leo part of me began getting into it, especially at a local gas station with close quarters where two women were hanging out in front by the cashier taking up space with no intention to check out since they couldn't figure out what they wanted to purchase yet I just wanted to pay for my gas and go. They both were within two feet of me and I so wanted to tell them " I need my 6 feet!!"<br />
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I thought this is all a joke because there absolutely was no awareness at all of any of the rules at the gas station, and ALOT of people pass through a gas station indoors in close quarters!!<br />
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At work, coffee shops and even grocery stores they are bringing awareness to it, since I can only do take out at my favorite coffee shops and grocery stores have that bullet proof plastic erected in front of the cashier and they are wearing rubber gloves. They also have sanitizing wipes for the carts and cart handles.<br />
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Last week my coworker asked what I was doing for the weekend and I wasn't in the greatest mood, I was tired at the end of the week dealing with new policies because of COVID, and instituting them.<br />
So I told her " Its a fucked up World with a fucked up President, where the hell am I gonna go? I can't even go sit in a damn coffeeshop!!"<br />
The social isolation is getting to me.<br />
And not being able to even hug folks or shake hands. I shook someone's hand a couple days ago, then told him " Im not supposed to shake your hand!" We are creatures of touch and affection! Supposedly we need a certain number of hugs a day to thrive, or even a pat on the shoulder, or an introductory handshake. Now its a matter of life or death!<br />
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Well back to the 6 feet, which I applied throughout the grocery store whilst shopping...<br />
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Today talking to my coworker and close pal, I realized that I taught women in Self Defense classes that they have a RIGHT to their bodily boundaries whether it be 3 inches, like on a crowded bus, or 10 feet walking down the street at night in a dangerous city environment. This is THEIR PROTECTIVE BUBBLE. I would have them visualize either protective white light or 4 Goddesses/ Amazon or female Samurai Warriors walking with them. One in front, one behind, one to the left, one to the right. One for each Direction protecting them.<br />
Nobody was permitted to penetrate their protective bubble without their permission, and to keep up the bubble, till they were safely home, unlocked the door and turned the lights on and their space was safe. Then they could let it down.<br />
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I have used this many times at night while living in Oakland, CA, and on my way home while walking. It kept me both alert and safe. I WOULD defend my territory if I needed to.<br />
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So today I realized that 6 feet is the distance a kick could reach. When sparring, I stayed out of the 6 foot range of another Martial Artist unless I was ready to attack, and so I could move quickly if they chose to attack. The same is true in a security circumstance dealing with difficult people who may be combative or hostile. 6 feet gives you room to move, defend or get away without being surprised and victimized. This is why 6 feet felt so familiar.<br />
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As a Leo, I am quite territorial. Whether its my bedroom, my items or my person. I don't want people touching me that I don't know, particularly men. Its a form of sexual harassment I noticed while in the Trades. Womyn are the " touchable" caste, even if its not in overt sexual zones.<br />
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I noticed one day that on my way to the bathroom at work, there's one Hispanic woman always cleaning the hallway, her section, a pal of mine I always chit chat with and am friendly to, even though her English is limited. One day one of the guys in the factory on his way out the door hugged and squeezed on her. The look on her face was very disturbing. It was not consensual, not wanted, very much sexual harassment, typical white male entitlement. I did the motion of brushing off each shoulder in disgust. She took my hand and slapped it several times, expressing to me in that moment of friendship and woman bonding she wished she could have done that to him, a spanking for violating her boundaries. I let her know I had her back!!<br />
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So back to the 6 foot rule. Instead of "Social Distancing" which to my Moon in Pisces half denotes isolation and alienation, something I can all too easily do and go into a deep funk, it came to me to rename it, for womyn especially, "Social Boundaries." For my mental, physical and spiritual health I NEED MY 6 FEET DAMMIT!! THIS LEO NEEDS HER TERRITORY WHEREVER SHE GOES!!!<br />
Reframe it and rename it, take back your power. You have a RIGHT to your boundaries!!<br />
- In Sisterhood,<br />
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<br />MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-76724058555237581902020-03-27T13:01:00.001-07:002020-04-02T18:13:07.440-07:00We are all Under House ArrestSo every one of us is under house arrest now. Work, if you got a job then come home. Only necessary chores like shopping and getting gas and going to the Dr.<br />
Otherwise we are all prisoners just like Martha Stewart in our own homes. We have our electronic leash right in our pocket or underneath our fingers as we write...what a fucked up world!!<br />
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- MasterAmazonMasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-79232397965958437902019-12-31T07:29:00.002-08:002019-12-31T07:32:04.239-08:00On Lesbian Identity: More Than Merely A Sexual Orientation, But it Starts ThereBeing a Lesbian IS a legitimate identity. We created a whole worldwide culture around it. Its an entire Worldview that puts womyn first,foremost, forever. Our erotic Lesbian Sexuality is the glue that binds us together. We are in serious danger of losing this rich Female centered Culture.<br />
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Otherwise like around here, its merely a sexual orientation and no sense of any particular solidarity with other Lesbians except as love/sex objects cuz everyone is one big happy queer community..( M.A. rolls eyes).<br />
Just like being Black or Native American goes beyond merely being a " race" or ethnicity to Black and Native cultures.<br />
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What burns me up is the term " self identify". Either you ARE a thing or you are not. Any strait/ bi/ trans can " identify" as Lesbian but that doesnt make it so, anymore than whiteys playing Native American, UNLESS they actially been invited into the Tribe, or Rachael Donozal being Black. No matter how she 'self identifies' still does NOT make her genetically Black, or born males genetically Female, THE requirement to being Lesbian, along with being exclusively sexually oriented towards females...MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-55463636425137028732019-12-09T14:27:00.002-08:002019-12-09T14:27:17.890-08:00Resisting Femininity Lifelong as a Tomboy, then Butch Lesbian<div class="avatar-holder" style="background: url("/wp-content/themes/pub/spectrum/images/bgs/comments/avatar.gif") 0px 0px no-repeat rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: Helvetica-Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; height: 52px; margin: 7px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 61px;">
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In just about every way I relate to this article. Us tomboys who grow up to be Butch Lesbians are shamed every step of the way for rejecting femininity, passivity, domesticity and the limited roles allowed to females.</div>
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I wish I had an Amazon Warrior Tribe of womyn to call Home. Michfest was the closest, but as a girl it would have been so wonderful to be validated at wvery step rather than denugrated as so many of us were for Resisting.</div>
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There ARE little girls that DID get this at Michfest, who grew up at the Festival and ran free without fear and in freedom within a Community of predominately Lesbian Amazon Womyn…at least for a week outta the year if not more( if they were allowed on the Land while workers built it up every year). Who knows how powerful Lesbians and womyn and girls would be if we grew up in real freedom, without fear??</div>
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At least, for better or worse, I did come out at a time where there were strong, vibrant Lesbian communities questioning EVERYTHING abd creating a new way of Being, foryms, festivals, enclaves, printing presses, bookstores ect. Almost all of that lost now….who could have imagined our nascent and growing rich Lesbian culture would suffer such a severe backlash to be rendered almost nonexistent. Not from Conservative straights, though all the backlashes against Feminists certainly didnt help,; but rather WITHIN what we thought were our own?</div>
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We WILL regrow it again. We must, for OUR OWN SANITY and hopefully in much greater solidarity. Once the number of detransitioners reaches a tipping point, just like the Holocaust people will ask ” where were you?” “Which side of HIStory were YOU ON?” Hopefully not the one of Johanna Olson, who has pushed for ever younger ages of transition.<br />Many of our own Sisters sold us out, but so has the bi and gay male communities, though some gay men are starting to wake up when they see they will not be able to keep their gay male identities and spaces intact.<br />But it has affected us Lesbians from both directions far longer.</div>
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From autogynophilic males claiming a space in our communities fir decades, to so many would be tomboy/Butch young women convinced to come out ” male” instead and utterly reject Lesbians, even as they practice Lesbianism with feminine or even othe Butch women. Imitation of het life with a feminine woman, or gay life another Butch, who often eventually transitions herself so they can live as if they are ” gay men”.</div>
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I seen it all, and when ANOTHER tells me ir I found out she transitioned it hurts me to the depths of my Butch DykeAmazon soul.</div>
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All I can say Sisters is RESIST! Resistance is NOT futile….more and more are waking up to peak trans and what they lost in trying to find Lesbian Community…WE WILL REBUILD, WE WILL RISE!!<br />– in Sisterhood,<br />– FeistyAmazon</div>
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MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-299914709289501152019-11-12T19:55:00.001-08:002019-11-12T19:57:35.060-08:00Guest Post by Genevieve GluckA right on observation:<br />
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"Men don't perform femininity,<br />
they self-objectify. Femininity isn't a performance, it's oppression forced on women.<br />
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Women do not "perform" our oppression. Only men have the luxury of reframing their modes of controlling us as an art or self-expression.<br />
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When men tell us femininity is a performance, they are revealing two things:<br />
1) their own ignorance of what it means to be a woman in a male-dominated world;<br />
2) they are entertained by our violent subjugation.<br />
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Femininity is more than makeup. It's more than beauty standards. Femininity is the expectation that certain behaviors and roles for women done to us by force are natural and inevitable.<br />
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Femininity is forced birth, forced child care, it's FGM and punishment for showing anger or speaking up. It's murdering lesbians. It's the women whose health detoriates because of the cleaning products they use as underpaid "maids".<br />
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Femininity is criminalizing rape victims, it's anorexia, it's reduced pay, it's the fear of walking alone at night. It's the sex industry, it's sexual harassment, saying she was asking for it. Femininity naturalizes sex oppression and rationalizes punishing women who speak up.<br />
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Reducing femininity to makeup or dresses is what men do, because it isn't forced on them. It's an insult to all women but especially the most exploited. Reducing femininity to performance is a neoliberal, male-centered view which ignores how femininity is used to control women.<br />
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Men never "perform femininity" by scrubbing a toilet or demanding a pay reduction. They demand to be "treated like a woman" then complain about exclusion with no awareness that being "treated like a woman" means more than exclusion, it means living in fear of male violence.<br />
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Men who demand to be treated like women see femininity and women ourselves as nothing more than sex positions they can adopt. Submissive, full make-up, validated in their delusion by a photoshoot in Playboy, claiming lesbians oppress them by refusing to have sex with men.<br />
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It's no surprise that men are claiming entitlement to female identity at the very time that women worldwide are waking up to our power, claiming our voice, and taking men to task for violence against us. They are desperately trying to get our attention and derail us.<br />
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It also comes as no surprise that men are claiming to be women at the same time that porn is fully saturating the internet, as is Instagram, and sexual objectification has become the common currency of our social media culture.<br />
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In the age of influencers and followers, men are enforcing their entitlement to influence the very definition of women's reality, and especially to keep us from acknowledging the farce we've been fed all our lives: that gender is not natural, that men created and uphold it, that they benefit from naturalizing our inferior status via free labor and constant access to our bodies.<br />
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The rise innate gender ideology - the mainstreaming of associating freedom with porn, prostitution, cosmetics - is the male backlash to women's global uprising against our subjugation; it is a violent attempt to redirect women back to men's vision of how we women should be: that a woman is not a body, and therefore not a person, not human; that a woman is a feeling a man has, a woman is a fantasy of high heels, makeup and submission.<br />
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But we will not submit." - Genevieve Gluck<br />
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My response:<br />
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Fantastic when I hear the Truth in relation to us Females and the battle so many of us are engaged in and have been for many years. ESPECIALLY us Lesbians.<br />
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I just talked to a Lesbian last night who talked to me after a show. She lived in a bigger city and I asked her was there ANY Lesbian community there? Potlucks, gatherings, meetings for Lesbians? She rattled off bars and some mixed event for lesbians and gays held at or put on by or at a church.<br />
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I told her I dont do bars and asked her are there SPECIFICALLY LESBIAN events where I can tap in to meet other Lesbians like potlucks, groups, other gatherings?<br />
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She said " there used to be but nothing so Separatist anymore." THAT truly saddened me. I told her in this here town and area there are only drag shows which I have NO interest in, our local Pride and NOTHING whatsoever by and for LESBIANS!!<br />
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I let her know womyn BOUGHT the Michfest Land and that I intend to go to one of the Festivals they will be putting on next year. Its the FIRST TIME in a very long time I have had a REAL conversation with an ACTUAL LESBIAN LIVE about the state of community, or seeking it. Without being told "we are all inclusive" which means gay men, trans, bi and males in general run the show. - M.A.MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-73824044403889033432019-09-17T11:30:00.001-07:002019-09-17T11:30:18.145-07:00Guest Post from K.E.M.Tolerant liberal friends:<br />
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I suppose language is funny. After all, if you can insist that the word "woman" means something other than "adult female human," I suppose you can be a betrayer of women, children, and the poor and still call yourself a "liberal."<br />
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Why not just say it? You care more about the delusions and perversions of entitled white men who irrationally claim to be women than you do about the safety of actual women.<br />
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You want these men to share bathroom spaces with us. Their feelings are more important than women's comfort and safety.<br />
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You want these men to colonize domestic violence, homeless shelters, and jails to be housed among women. Their feelings are more important to you than women's comfort and safety.<br />
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You want schoolchildren, K through 12, to use "unigender" -- the word means nothing; the term is mixed-sex-- bathrooms because some kids claim to be the other sex. Their feelings are more important to you than girls' comfort and safety.<br />
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And you criticize and charge lesbians with bigotry because they don't choose to sleep with men who claim to be women. Their feelings are more important to you than lesbians' comfort and safety.<br />
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And yet you pride yourself on being a liberal because you're pro-gay and lesbian, because you're a "feminist," because you care about kids, the homeless, domestic violence victims, and the imprisoned ... right?<br />
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Hell, no.<br />
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Spare me your self-righteous lectures about tolerance, because the braying, whining insistence of men who say they're women clearly is what grabs your attention these days, and you have abandoned any pretense of concern for the others.<br />
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Your hypocrisy is staggering, and your blindness and cowardice condemn you.MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-11273042260686263662019-06-21T07:56:00.001-07:002019-06-21T08:16:52.942-07:00LESBIANS/ Dykes is who I Fght for, and WBW Spaces" Exclusive same sex [ Lesbian to Lesbian]attraction is a valid and real sexuality, there is absolutely nothing objectionable about being exclusively same sex attracted and those who are should be able to have their sexuality free from any form of hate, discrimination, coercion or harassment, and are fully supported by our organisation as part of the LGBT community."- Women and Girls in Scotland<br />
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THAT STATEMENT is what Lesbian/ Gay Rights, which I fought for for a LIFETIME, ever since I came out, is ALL ABOUT. Being exclusively same sexattracted. Woman to woman, Dyke to Dyke, Female to Female ONLY. " No penis between us friends." - Alix Dobkin.<br />
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My LESBIAN sexuality is exclusively same sex attracted. I dont do men or males of ANY stripe, whether past, present or future. No ifs ands or buts about it. I AM A Female Homosexual ONLY.<br />
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If thats NOT ok, I want off the boat. Thats NOT the Movement I signed up for. It was all about working towards Lesbians becoming more free TO BE. NOT compulsory hetrosex where we have to fear impregnation or male control. Period. - M.A.MasterAmazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08857662825176277576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702331825816121115.post-13618381184017339852019-05-21T09:20:00.001-07:002019-05-21T14:53:04.047-07:00Tell Me About Those TimesAs a Butch Dyke Amazon Elder I talked about the times we were almost free to be. Where we had a place 5 to 10,000 Amazon Lesbian/ Dykes/ Womyn Gathered every year and expressed EVERY aspect of Lesbian Love. Not only was there wild lovemaking in the woods, usually at night, away from the eyes of children, there was live music, the best our communities had to offer, rituals, workshops on every subject imaginable, and creativity,from body painting, stilt walking, fire eating and fire dancing, to the constant sounds of drums,our steady Heartbeat.<br />
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There were Parades for all forms of womonhood,both for Butches and for Femmes, redheads, girls on stilts and even a naked Parade right around dinnertime.<br />
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The explosion of creativity and honor and worship of the Female in EVERY aspect was IMMENSE. Beyond anything modern day. A total and complete Amazon Matriarchy.<br />
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I and so many other Lesbians and Females opened up to the deepest level of our Souls, accessed hidden psychic Powers that only come out on the Land,among womyn,where we are truly FREE. Some refer to it as " woo". But it is REAL.<br />
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When I came on the Land for the first time,I could put down my Weapons as an Amazon. Those heavy burdens and layers of protection I always carried in the world of men. I no longer needed to pour so much energy into Protection, I could Feel and connect with the sheer Gynergy...amongst the likeminded. I did not have to explain Myself .<br />
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I was Understood and ALL my Dyke communities came together, from Magical Goddess worshipping high Ritual of 400 womyn, to Leather Wildness in the Twilight Zone, to Dykes in recovery, to Matriarchal Jewish Dykes, to the Butch Parade which was BETTER than the Dyke March because we were surrounded by womyn. Males werent trying to crash it, we could flirt with each other as Butch on Butch, and Femmes flirted with us on the sidelines. They had THEIR moment in their parade...and us Butches led by Drummers and my Sister Butch DykeAmazons!!<br />
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Everywhere was Female and Lesbian art honoring our bodies, our minds, our Sacred Female Spirits. A Goddess statue 30 feet tall in a grove.<br />
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Closest to me were Matriarchal JewWitch Sisters at the Shabbat honoring the Shekinah. THAT was my ethnic Tribe...<br />
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Only in the company of a town, village, City of womyn and the erotic Magic between us, do I come out of my cage and my Full WildWomyn Amazon Self emerges. I have to cut off so many parts of myself to just exist in the Patriarchy. So much of my deepest Self unacknowledged.<br />
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Unless we shake off now the last dying claws of Patriarchal rule, we will go back to the Dark ages, for Lesbians and for womyn as a whole. But WE Remember, when we were FREE!!!<br />
- MasterAmazon<br />
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