Butches and Babies: Tumblr Love

There’s nothing I want to share with you more today than Butches & Babies, a delightful new Tumblr microblog site by Meaghan O’Malley. (Thanks to lesbian wonderland Autostraddle for the tip.) Meaghan brings together butch, “in all of its iterations,” and babies (“human”), saying that she’s “fascinated by the juxtaposition of a baby nestled in a butch’s arms.” Take a look at the photos she’s collected, and you will be, too.

Meaghan and Em, the butch to whom she is “almost-married,” don’t have any children of their own, but Meaghan says she loves to take photos of Em holding babies. She explains, “It’s not at all easy to march through the world shattering gender norms at every turn. So when a butch holds a small child, relatively unaffected by gender (in a cognitive/behavioral sense), it is a simultaneous exchange of healing and freedom.”

Meaghan is looking for submissions to the site; as she notes, please make sure you have permission of the parent(s) if the child is not your own.