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her hair smooth and dark and always fastened in a low ponytail—the sapphic Bat Signal.
“Compulsory heterosexuality is ugly. The patriarchy is ugly. And I don’t want to be a part of it anymore. Peace!”
after 2004: it’s cool for guys to be gay. It’s cool for girls to be friends with gay guys. But it’s an insult to be called a lesbian.
Internalized homophobia is a sneaky thing.
Though attraction is often only defined as romantic or sexual, the feeling of being drawn to another person is so much richer and more dynamic than just the physical. And because means of attraction are myriad, they often get wrapped up in each other; they intersect, they intermingle, and they can be hard to tease out from one another.
Do I want to be this person, or do I want to fuck this person?
I was making out in basements on the reg—why would I be anything but into boys?
wish I were being facetious when I write that Hillary Duff and Christy Carlson Romano’s sapphic tension is nothing short of electrifying.
Disney Channel Original Movies absolutely loved the idea that “Girls can do anything boys can do!” just as long as the “anything” wasn’t “girls.”
Butch and femme were (and are) both heightened expressions of masculine and feminine identities, almost camp, like traditional gender identity in a funhouse mirror.
Classic fucking Taylor, I thought, like she was some girl I’d gone to high school with.
Taylor Swift might not have made me a romantic, but she absolutely fueled my tendency to over-romanticize.
I felt angry that I’d been stripped of an opportunity to see funny, fully realized gay kids come out and fall in love and be supported by their friends and families.
