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Hi ladies! I’m a terf from Cambridge, Massachusetts and I need help doing some stickering in the lead up to the Boston marathon. I’m not a member of any organizations, just a lone terf trying to spread the good word of terfness. You can find my YouTube channel under the name MaryDyer. My videos are garbage but it’s the only way I can try to spread the word.
I make my own stickers or get them printed at Staples (I’m wary about buying from KJK again because my woke parents gave me the third degree about what was in the package). It’s a shame because buying from KJK is actually cheaper and you get more stickers for your buck than buying through Staples. I also suspect the people at Staples are starting to hate me. But I digress.
I’ve also printed my own stickers using Avery brand rectangular label sheets. It’s simple - just go to the Avery website and use their label templates, load the label sheet into the printer tray, and print.
My current stickers say “Join the fight for women’s SEX-BASED rights”, and contain a QR code for Women’s Declaration International.
500,000 people from all over the world are already converging on Boston and surrounding cities for this long holiday weekend. If we sticker as many signposts and light poles as we can we can reach a wide and diverse audience.
On this tenth anniversary of the marathon bombing we can sticker respectfully to spread our message. We can sticker the route itself, downtown Boston, popular tourist sites, Cambridge, outside hotels, on bridges, etc. Do not sticker private property or too close to the bombing memorials. Be respectful and responsible.
I have no terf/GC friends or even acquaintances IRL so I’ve been reaching out on social media to try to get help stickering. It’s tough, though, because I’ve been perma-banned from Twitter and Instagram.
Thank you for reading and I hope this will reach some Boston area terfs!
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972)! She was an openly lesbian writer, American but living in France. She had a literary salon that hosted all kinds of interesting people that came through, especially women and other lesbians. I'm not doing her justice right now lol really recommend looking her up.
I really need to get to reading Women of the Left Bank. It's been on my "to read" list forever.
If you're interested in Irish history, there's been a good documentary available about lesbians who were involved in Irish independence called Croíthe Radacacha. You can find it here, but you may need to use a VPN to watch it. It's mostly in Irish with English subtitles. It just aired recently and I thought it was really well made.
Thanks for the rec! I only knew about Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper - so thrilled to learn there are many more!
There's also a documentary about the Ladies of Llangollen under "More of the same". I'll be sure to check that out as well.
I love everything about the story of Emily Dickinson.
Anything in particular? I have a couple of her poems still memorized from childhood but don't know anything about her as a person.
Anything that has to do with historical methods that lesbians used to signal to each other that they were lesbian is my usual favorite. I’m always learning more stuff.
But my ultimate favorite is how I have managed to well verse myself in the true history of the Stonewall riots. The male washing of that history sickens me, so every Pride month, I’m as most vocal as I possibly can be about it within reason. (Which probably was another reason my disgusting colleagues had wanted to get me fired before June hit. Myself celebrating or even MENTIONING Pride month probably would have set their evil little hairs on fire).
I love history, but I don't know any lesbian history, so I'll keep checking for comments.
Absolutely. I consider history the most important subject and it's a shame that younger generations nowadays seem to know or even care very little about what happened in the past.
I second the recommendation on Lillian Faderman. Haven't read Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers yet (lesbian history became more depressing as the 20th century progressed due to the spread of sexology), but Faderman's To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America - A History is one of my all-time favorite books. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present covers a broader range of history but is also very interesting. And if anyone here has seen S2 of Gentleman Jack, you might recall Anne Lister mentioning a case involving two schoolmistresses in Scotland (though it's impossible to know the exact nature of their relationship). Faderman wrote about the case in Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired The Children's Hour, which offers fascinating insight into how lesbianism was regarded in early 19th-century Scotland and Britain (or rather, how men in positions of power bent over backwards to pretend lesbianism couldn't exist between "respectable" Christian women).
Too many things to add to my reading list!