To quote the same article from a different section:
»The carabiner is linked to lesbian identity for its ties to masculine, utilitarian workwear. Some lesbians, like butch lesbians, often want to move away from typically feminine accessories and lean towards masculine aesthetics«
Making this pretty clear to me the expression of the carabiner to be of explicitly mascline aesthetics and expression of empowerment.
The humble carabiner, a little forgotten queer history:
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As WWII broke out, many women found themselves in the workplace and taking over jobs as the men were rounded up to fight on the frontline. Butches, masc women and gender non-conforming lesbians were pushed into blue-collar jobs (like janitors and delivery workers), taking over from men
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Source https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/12/why-do-lesbians-wear-carabiners/
#queer #queerhistory #sapphic #lesbian #wlw #ww2
Can attraction change over time? Absolutely—and understanding abrosexuality might change how you see sexuality foreve
Full article link: https://afterdarktreasures.com/blogs/everything-lgbtqia/abrosexuality-explained-when-attraction-evolves-over-time
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It's #Easter Sunday! 🌱
No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. But I do have a *lot* of queer chickens. 🥚🏳️🌈🐤 
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Here's a domestic hen with male plumage, described in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1821.
#HappyEaster #history #histbio #histsci #histstm #sts #science #biology #nature #birds #animals @[email protected] @histodons @histodon @histstm @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM
Conversion therapy is literal nazi science, and we should also be calling it that. Lovaas' ABA framework was the framework Rekers built on, with Lovaas' help, applying the ableist torture schema to a presumed-queer toddler. LGBT and autistic conversion therapy come from the same nazi source. Lovaas was LITERALLY a card-carrying Nazi, arrested for it. He was in Quisling's political party.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09526951251324102
#QueerHistory #DisabilityHistory #history #ABA #ConversionTherapy #ActuallyAutistic @autistics
#BookLaunch for @cjdebarra's new book, a second volume exploring Nottingham's #QueerHistory. Central Library, 22 May at 7pm. Get tickets from @fiveleavesbookshop
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📕 O livro "Memórias Dissidentes. Repressão e resistências quotidianas de homossexuais e lésbicas nas ditaduras ibéricas" é o resultado da investigação de doutoramento de Raquel Afonso, cuja investigação foi desenvolvida no IHC.
#Histodons #Anthropodons #SocialHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #Dictatorships #IberianPeninsula #Portugal #Spain #España #HistóriaSocial #Ditaduras #Antropologia #MastoLivros
@theleftistlawyer I don't know if he drew from Goldman, as well, but this reminds me of queer activist Michael Barron's use of the phrase "queer optimism" in the recent historical context of queer liberation struggles in Ireland, and which encapsulates so, so much:
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AfterDarkTreasures
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks
Fallon the chronic gremlin
Peoples Histreh
Tom Rocket's 🚀
IHC
The Ghost Monk
Joan of Contention 😷