The more I see lesbians who are anywhere under the trans umbrella the happier I am.

Since reading Stone Butch Blues at the start of this year,

Since following a bunch of they/them, he/him, she/they/he, nonbinary, trans, butch lesbians on here,

And watching a few interviews by Lynn Breedlove of Tribe 8,

I just feel like home, people like me exist, and people like me have existed for a while! I don't have to debate my identity with anyone, I just *am* some queer, gender-weird butch dyke 🌈

And if you don't like it: goodbye, don't bother me.

I don't care if we never fuck again. I just want to watch her ascent and disintegration, because anything burning that bright one day must consume itself and float away, an ash, and no one has the power to stop it. It's flirting with disaster to love someone that much, someone who's always on the brink of going away. I know she doesn't need saving, but I dream of saving her, of rolling a rock up the mountain and being flattened by it as it rolls back over me all the way to the bottom again. And then I push it right back to the top, because if it takes this much sweat it must be worth it.

Obsessed with angels, she's divinely twisted. She builds neon-winged sculptures, and in black ink she scratches out demonic, sunken-eyed, jowly, pear-shaped angels that she thinks look like her, with bat-wing claws. She doesn't see what we see when she looks at herself.

godspeed, by lynn breedlove (2002)

Deeply deeply in love with folks who exist on the outskirts of queer identity while simultaneously embodying their queerness in every piece of art they create

Folks who maybe don’t transition in a traditional sense but identify heavily with queerness and live authentically in a way that cannot be defined by cis heteronormativity

People who are just unabashedly queer and don’t feel like they have to prove shit to anyone-

Call them whatever the fuck you want, it can’t detract from what they’ve done to subvert cishet expectations and it sure as fuck won’t make them lose any sleep

Lynn Breedlove and Gerard Way are my two first artists that come to mind

They’ve made insane leaps and bounds for the queer community in multiple intersecting ways and in ways where labels don’t even particularly make sense for them- they rejected so many labels and pushed forward in spite of and with love for their nonconformity-

Fucking QUEER people who don’t bother with labels- I fucking love you

„I'm a feminist and I'm a dyke and I fucking hate men and I'm a man. I identify as a dyke and as a guy. People are pissed off about that because they want you to pick a side. Really, my choice isn't about you. I don't tell you to lop your tits off, and you don't get to tell me that I can't be a dyke and a guy. That is just as repressive as any of the bullshit that we're rebelling against." -Lynn Breedlove (founding member of dyke punk band Tribe 8)

“YEAH MY HAIR’S PINK!!!!!! I’M THE MISSING LINK!!!!!! YOU DON’T HAVE A MISSING LINK BATHROOM!!!!!!!”

punk rule

(people/bands from left to right in no particular order)

Laura Jane Grace, Lucian Kahn, Joey Steel (I think), Tom Gilbert, G.L.O.S.S., Emma Grrrl, Sydney Dolezal, Elijah (Human Kitten), Donnie Walsh, Lynn Breedlove, Zac Xeper, Size of Sadness guitar player (if you know their name please let me know), and Alexia Roditis (ty @ha--eul for the correction)

I have been asked for more Queer punk bands. So gladly I present a band called TRIBE 8 All-women outspoken lesbian punk band from San Francisco, California, USA active in 1991–2005. Considered one of the first queercore groups, their songs often deal with subjects such as S/M, nudity, fellatio, and transgender issues, and the band was the subject of controversy because of this.

Leslie Mah - Guitar

Lynn Breedlove - Lead Singer

Jen Rampage - Drummer

Mama T - Bass

Jason McBride, from Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker (Simon & Schuster, 2022)

It also helped that most of her students were big fans of hers when they arrived, and even bigger fans by the time they left. Her classes, usually three hours long and between fifteen and twenty students, were always oversubscribed. After her first year there, students were required to submit three writing samples to be considered for admission. She understandably gravitated toward students whose writing felt fresh and unusual, who had an interest in postmodernism or experimentation, as well as those who’d had tough lives, who seemed damaged. “Half of them come out of serious child abuse, sexual and other,” she told a friend. She doted on the students with tattooed skulls, the trans men, the ones who’d worked in porn. But you didn’t even have to be enrolled at SFAI necessarily; if she found you compelling enough, you could be a high-school dropout and still take her classes. Over the years, several of her students would go on to successful writing and art careers: Lynn Breedlove, Anna Joy Springer, Alicia McCarthy, Geoffrey Farmer, Xylor Jane, Erin Courtney.

The class was, for all intents and purposes, a writing workshop, but with an unmistakable Ackerian flavor. “Only one thing’s forbidden here,” she would announce at the start of the term. “You’re not allowed to bore me. Never bore me. Just be honest. Dishonesty is boring. Honesty is always interesting.” The first writing exercise she’d give students was to write a sex scene involving them and a family member. Then she’d have them pass their assignment to the person sitting next to them, who would then read it out loud. “Write from your father’s point of view,” went another assignment, “but in the voice of a schizophrenic.” She would tell her students to try, as she did, to write while masturbating. “I was like, ‘Wha...?’,” remembered Lynn Breedlove. “I can barely do one at a time.” This was something that Acker famously did, for a brief while keeping what she called the Masturbation Journals. “I start,” she writes in one example. “Do I want porn? If I’ve got porn can I write this journal? (Do this do that: get all those thots [sic] out of mind, back to dreams where all the animals live) ... I will float forever ...”

...

At the beginning of class, she also told her students that she wasn’t there to solve their problems; she was going to be neither mother nor shrink. That disclaimer, students soon found, was a bit of misdirection—she could, in fact, be extremely nurturing. When one student, for example, arrived to class on her motorcycle, her bare hands freezing, Acker promptly gave the woman an old pair of hers. She could be especially supportive when it came to students’ writing. She told many of them to never give up on their writing. “She almost violently grabbed me by my braids,” said Anna Joy Springer, “and said, ‘You’re so good, Anna Joy, don’t you dare stop writing. I think you’re the reincarnation of Jean Genet.’ I had no idea who that even was.”

...

Springer was dating Lynn Breedlove, the founding member of Tribe8, a queercore band that often spoofed the antics of straight hair bands like Bon Jovi. Breedlove wasn’t technically a student at SFAI, but Springer brought him to the Edinburgh Castle and he was immediately intrigued. “There was this little, short, butch-femme, leather-clad, Harley-riding New Yorker babe,” Breedlove remembered, “talking about this French porno philosophy shit. And I was like, ‘Whoa.’ She had my attention.” Breedlove had a degree in English from Cal State and liked to condense literary and philosophical ideas into three-chord rock songs, bestowing this knowledge, he said, on kids who couldn’t afford college. Acker, he felt, was engaged in a similar project, making ideas and information accessible in her own way too. In Acker’s class, he wrote about years lost to drugs and alcohol and about his past life as a bike messenger. That writing would eventually become Godspeed, Breedlove’s first novel. “She made herself so accessible to all of us,” he said. “And validated us. She said, ‘Okay, you guys are young, you’re queer, you’re fucking way out on the edges of society, and the world needs to hear about your lives’.” Acker hired Tribe8 to make music for her spoken-word album Redoing Childhood, taking producer Hal Willner to a concert the night before the recording session, where the band proceeded to cut up several large green and blue dildos on stage. Acker called Tribe8 the “hottest band in San Francisco” and Breedlove “one of the dreams I had had when I was a girl.”

...

“She was learning a lot,” Springer said. “How to have sexual intimacy with women, about diverse gender roles, about power plays that didn’t have exact representational parallels in real life. I think she was learning about queerness, feminist queerness.” That said, and as much as Acker loved the idea of queerness, as much as she thought of herself as queer, sex with women was still only rarely appealing to her.

...

Springer saw this too, though in somewhat different terms. Acker was in her forties, had never had kids, and was watching a generation of young queer women come of age, third-wave feminists who could have been her children, who she had, in a way, given permission to be. “She never thought that what was happening in feminist, dyke, punk, S and M, anti-moralistic culture could happen with women,” Springer said. “She was, like, ‘Oh my god, you kids are doing amazing things. The future might be possible’.”

"I’m a feminist and I’m a dyke and I fucking hate men and I’m a man. I identify as a dyke and as a guy. People are pissed off about that because they want you to pick a side. Really, my choice isn’t about you. I don’t tell you to lop your tits off, and you don’t get to tell me that I can’t be a dyke and a guy. That is just as repressive as any of the bullshit that we’re rebelling against." - Lynn Breedlove

So did y'all exclude transmascs from this article https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-temple-cannot-help-you-get-an-abortion-and-it-does-not-deserve-your-support/ for fun? Cause "women and nonbinaries" isn't the inclusivity one would expect from a queer satanic blog.

Without trying to be insulting, this is literally just a reading comprehension issue on your part.

That being the case, we're going to drop the section you're talking about below the jump for full context.

"Many women and nonbinary people who have spoken out" is not a gesture at inclusivity. It's describing the specific collection of people that immediately follow and are linked to: trans women, cis women, and nonbinary people.

Unless someone's gender identity has changed, we don't have any men included in that list, and in the case of trans men specifically, we don't have examples of such people speaking out about this.

Many women and nonbinary people who have spoken out about problems among TST’s leadership as a persistent issue, although from top people this has slowed down in recent years, likely due to TST threatening critics with legal action for supposedly violating Non-Disparage Agreements they forced top people to sign (and yes, continue to use):

Why I’m Leaving The Satanic Temple by Emma Story

“The Struggle for Justice is Ongoing” by Jex Blackmore

Mary Doe Speaks, an interview by the former TST St. Louis Chapter with TST client Mary Doe, as well as the response to Temple co-owner Lucien Greaves publicly attacking her (part one) (part two)

“Yet Another Quitting The Satanic Temple Post” by Autumn

Why I Left The Satanic Temple by Aria deSatanas

End of Times, Beginning of Times by Evelyn Breedlove

Local chapter member banned, doxxed after reporting sexual assault of chapter head by Anonymous, for obvious reasons

Top leadership more concerned with damage control than addressing damage, (part one) (part two) shared by Rumor Solanine

Second thoughts about Philadelphia Lupercalia by u/tossatanicacc

See also comment “I’m getting some heat from our admin for posting this”

See also: The Satanic Temple’s “Sex-Positive Guidelines” document, namely “Participatory events are those in which attendees may participate in consensual sex-positive activity, 1. Might include orgies, BDSM, fetish balls”

See also TST Ordination Council Member Dex Desjardins re: official TST orgies and the need for that document being that the orgies have “been happening for a while now”

On Washington State leadership by Randi a.k.a. SnailWhisperer

With additional context by another former member, Wylie

Yet more by a third person, Luciana Lovecraft; a fourth, Lynne Cooney; a fifth, Aeryn Kylie Reed; a sixth, who tried to enroll her child in After School Satan (more on that); a seventh, Luci Furr; and an eighth person, famous for their “Lady Lucifer” character.

Phoebe Bridget this Boy Genius that… why don’t you go look up what Lynn Breedlove and Tribe 8 were doing on stage in 1997 and then we can talk 👍

lynn breedlove is the funniest name ever

At the outset of Chloe Sherman’s new photography book Renegades, there are three forewords. One by fellow photographer Catherine Opie, one by writer (and former Blatz vocalist) Anna Joy Springer, and one by Tribe 8 vocalist and author Lynn Breedlove. All pay tribute to Sherman’s disarming photographic style and her knack for preserving everyday moments in queer Bay Area history. Breedlove’s words, however, go one step further, viscerally reveling in the memory of what it was to be young, rebellious and queer in 1990s San Francisco.Chloe Sherman’s ‘Renegade’ Photography Captures ’90s Queer Culture in SF

“We came from around the country and the planet, tired of the crusades to be seen and not killed, from rural places, big cities,” Breedlove writes. “Even NYC and LA looked askance at our out-of-line gender assertions, as we stabbed flags into the dirt, some of us already transitioning, adopting pronouns, audaciously insisting we were gorgeous, terrifying, trifling with normativities, flying in the face of cisterns, tossing dynamite at binaries, then rebuilding ourselves from the bits.”

i think that it would be very cool to meet lynn breedlove like. hes my fucking hero

Lynn Breedlove

Gender: Transgender man

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 13 June 1965

Ethnicity: White

Occupation: Musician, writer, activist, performance artist