yourlesbianmom:

“Lesbian erasure includes witch-burnings, stonings, and honor killings. It includes incarceration in mental hospitals, enforced heterosexuality, conversion therapy, corrective rape. Lesbian erasure includes laws meant to penalize or obliterate lesbian existence. Lesbian erasure includes the denial of lesbian desire and lesbian agency in academic treatises on “romantic friendships,” or the erasure of butch and gender non-conforming lesbians by means of transgender revisionism. Lesbian erasure includes dismissing our separate, distinct, and unique lesbian culture, obliterating it with terms that some argue are broad enough to replace it, like “queer” and “questioning.” Erasure is real. Discussing it is not just an academic or a rhetorical exercise… Lesbians continue to fight not just for recognition of our existence, but for our very lives.”

— ”Death of an Icon, Rebirth of a Movement” | Victoria A. Brownworth