A Woman’s Woman by Toni Adler (1962)
straight kids never learned the difference between the dictionary and the thesaurus meanwhile gay kids took that thesaurus and made it everybody’s problem….wide awake at 3:47am, frantically searching synonyms for the word ‘innocuous’ to craft the perfect ‘intelligent-yet-charming-and-not-pretentious’ response to the person who already fell asleep hours ago because you took too long to respond. seek help❤️
Writing in the Journal of Lesbian Studies in 2016, Elly-Jean Nielsen, a Ph.D student at the University of Saskatchewan, declared that lesbian camp more commonly followed three themes: erotic, classic, and radical. Eight years before, Annamari Vänskä, a professor of fashion research at Aalto University in Finland, nodded to Serbian Eurovision singer Marija Šerifović, who in 2007 performed in a tuxedo surrounded by five “femininely coded” women. But both seemed less interested in the qualities of dyke camp for dyke camp’s sake and more interested in pairing it with camp as we know it.
Dyke camp overlaps with camp in some areas, certainly. But in others it is completely different; it has its own electric vision. If camp is the love of the unnatural, dyke camp is the love of the ultra-natural, of nature built up and reclaimed, of clothes that could be extensions of the body, of desire made obsessive, of lesbian gestures or mannerisms maximized by a thousand.
Rather than drag, which parodies what is real, dyke camp takes the real and magnifies it, so that it becomes absurd or funny or simply attractive in its own right.
this image feels essential and also detrimental to my mental well-being
Auguste Rodin - Eternal Springtime, 1884
laura palmer would destroy those euphoria girls
this blog is not a well-curated museum. it’s my bedroom & i’m putting things on my shelf & taping things on the wall
i need to fuck jack black right now i am not joking
supposed confessions of a second-rate sensitive mind20 year old hag
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