compersion & limerence

You guys, the internet here is SO BAD, and using DW on mobile exclusively is also SO TEDIOUS, god help me. Nevertheless, I persist!

sciatrix wrote a bit about some of their experiences with science mentorship and queer mentorship (or at least that's the box I'm jamming it into, because I have one (1) track in my mind), and it is very much my speed. →"butch, please"

they also link to a delightful & informative history of the femme/butch dichotomy and linguistic develpoment by staranise (which, lol, is itself a link to Tumblr) →here

edit: since it's unlocked, a longer boost for this post re: coming out ≠ dealing with stigma, which featured (among other very! interesting commentary on identity), alchemistdoctor clueing me into the history of the term "coming out" i.e. how it derived from the debutante tradition of entering a society, and originally carried more community associations as well! From this piece:

instead of implying that someone was no longer hiding a grave secret, "coming out" was about proudly joining a community. Drag balls at the time were often covered in newspapers, so coming out into gay society could also mean coming out about your sexual orientation to the world at large.