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lesbianwaves:

lesbianwaves:

“nobody will believe it’s possible until we show them, but when the day comes you know what they’ll say? they’ll say it was inevitable” is such a brilliant quote about gay rights by captain james flint 

it really breaks down the “oh, we were always going to give you rights” attitude, and the convenient erasure of the relentless fighting it took to take them that is implicit in it, ppl in power suddenly have once a marginalized group’s rights are finally recognized 

Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – “Chloe liked Olivia…” Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.
“Chloe liked Olivia,” I read. And then it struck me how immense a change was there. Chloe liked Olivia perhaps for the first time in literature. Cleopatra did not like Octavia. And how completely Antony and Cleopatra would have been altered had she done so! […] Cleopatra’s only feeling about Octavia is one of jealousy. Is she taller than I am? How does she do her hair? The play, perhaps, required no more. But how interesting it would have been if the relationship between the two women had been more complicated. All these relationships between women, I thought, rapidly recalling the splendid gallery of fictitious women, are too simple. So much has been left out, unattempted.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own  (via diverswife)

neil-gaiman:

etakeh:

I wish I could make every 12-13 year old read The Left Hand of Darkness.

As Mr Gaiman says, her depiction of gender on the world she created, it’s mind-blowing to young brains.  It is a whole new idea.

And then listen to her: She was 85 I think when she got this award.  And she’s still ready to take down capitalism.

She was the best of us.