Tag: wlw

virgodura:

Photographs from Cats (and their Dykes), eds. Irene Reti and Shoney Sien.

1. Beth Karbe, “Sister and Judy”
2. Tam Garson, “Tara and Phineas”
3. Cathy Cade
4. Beth Karbe, “New York City Cat and Susan”
5. Cathy Cade, “Jeri: Shalea and Omar, my New York and California babies, the constants in my life”
6. Cathy Cade, “Ours”
7. Caroline Overman, “Tee Corinne”
8. Beth Karbe, “Self-Portrait with Louise”
9. Susan Logan, “Marie and Tiffany”

shiraglassman:

Announcing the re-release of “Eitan’s Chord”, my erotic f/f/f short about Chanukah fairies gathering together to grant a poor queer Jewish human couple’s wishes while they sleep! Meet “cute butch Latke, enthusiastic party girl Dreidl, and their elegant leader Menorah”, seen above in art by @agaricals. (The beautiful new cover is by Jane Dominguez.)

The new version has a couple of minor improvements, such as Latke being on the fairy roller derby team now. Oh, and now it’s only 99¢! 🕎

BTW the human portions of the story are trans m/cis f romance and completely G-rated; the fairy portions are “heat level all nine candles.” 😏😏😏

You think of Mr. Rochester, mad wives
in attics, Jane herself, as plain as flan.
You don’t remember Helen Burns, Jane’s friend

from school. Reader, I married her. I pressed
my eighth-grade self between those pages like
a flower, left for later hands. Helen.

“I like to have you near me,” she would cough,
romantically consumptive, after Jane
sneaked to her sick-bed. “Are you warm, darling?”

We’ll always find ourselves inside the book,
no matter what the book, no matter how
little we’re given. I was twelve; gay meant

nothing to me. I only knew I’d go
to Lowood Institution, rise at dawn,
bare knuckles to the switch, choke down the gruel,

pray to the bell, if this meant I could hold
another girl all night, if I could clasp—
this even if she died there while I slept,
this even if I died there in my sleep.

Jane Eyre Unbanned: (x)

Helen was always my favourite, too.