that-butch-archivist reblogged
"Ira Jeffries (far right), with her girlfriend, Snowbaby, and her mother, Bonita (standing), celebrating Ira's sixteenth birthday in a Harlem club" from the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Captioned: "I'm the butch but I'm not allowed to dress as I please yet."
source: The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, edited by Joan Nestle
#the archivist reblogs#i also love this one it just warms my heart that a sixteen year old somewhere got to go to a club for her birthday#with her girlfriend and her mom#instead of suffering some painful aching loneliness as so often happens#i would kill to have a mom like that#or to have been in a situation like that#but for now i am just very happy for her#black lesbian#black butch#black butch lesbian#also snowbaby is a fucking awesome name#black lesbian history#wlw#black wlw#black sapphic