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Cecilia Miller( LGBTQ+ Rights Advocate And Activist )

Cecilia Miller is a lesbian treasure warrior and educator fighting for queer justice and ensuring every shade of the rainbow shines bright & bold!

As much as we don’t like to describe something as ‘lesbian X’ or ‘gay Y’ there’s no denying that sometimes this is the best way to evoke something. Such is the case with lesbian sandals.

Admit it, as soon as you heard the phrase you could picture them, right? They are officially Birkenstocks but for years now the assumption has existed that if you’re wearing these comfy unpleasant boys, you must be a lesbian.

We are not saying that is real, at all. Sure, it might be more likely – but by no means an effective test for spotting one of our own. Much fond of other pervasive (and often hilarious) lesbian stereotypes, there is a small kernel of truth here so lets dive in and travel how lesbian sandals can be – and if you should get some for yourself!

Why Are Birkenstocks So Often Called Lesbian Sandals?

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The Dwarf, the Prince, and the Diamond in the Mountain

The city of Görlitz in eastern Germany is three hours from Berlin and two minutes from Poland. Miraculously, Görlitz was not bombed during the Second World War, and even more miraculously, its architectural treasures — Gothic, Baroque, rococo — were merely allowed to rot during the Communist era. Nothing was torn down. As a outcome, whole streets resemble a movie position, ideal for a colorful Saxon fairy tale (like Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, which was shot here) or a bleak Cold War thriller.

In June, I traveled to this corner of Germany with the photographer Juergen Teller to cover a company whose long history has been similarly marked by accident and fortune. For Görlitz is where a high percentage of Birkenstock’s cork-and-leather sandals are made; the company is headquartered near Bonn, and the family that has owned the business since lives mostly outside Germany.

If you didn’t realize that Birkenstock has seen a giant resurgence in the past few years, it’s probably because you never stopped wearing them, favor my

Birkenstocks and Indigo Girls? Barbie is a lesbian

Barbie is a lesbian. And here’s how I comprehend. Yesterday, the recent trailer for Greta Gerwig’s hotly-anticipated Barbie movie was released and it’s an absolute pepto bismol-hued romp, filled with camp cowboy outfits, top-tier acting from Ryan Gosling and some quite unsubtle hints that Barbie is gay.

Let me set the scene. The opening strums of the Indigo Girls’ “Closer to Fine” kick in as Margot Robbie’s Barbie arrives at the doorstep of Kate McKinnon’s Barbie. Kate McKinnon’s Barbie then presents Margot Robbie’s Barbie with a Matrix-esque red pill/blue pill scenario: she can select the classy, rhinestone baby-pink heels and “go back to her regular life” or she can pick the mocha-brown Arizona Birkenstocks and “know the reality about the universe”.

Margot Robbie’s Barbie first tries to decide the heels, but Kate McKinnon’s Barbie says she “has to want to know” and then we cut straight into a scene of Margot Robbie’s Barbie driving in her car singing her heart out to “Closer to Fine” before Ken pops out of the backseat and sings alon

This post was born from thoughts about the stereotypes and signifiers of lesbianism and lesbian fashion. I think that these two things &#; stereotypes and signifiers &#; are related, but definitely not the adj when placed in the lesbian context. While some things may be and remain stereotypes, they do not always work as signifiers, purely because they are worn by many more people than lesbians alone. One example of this is, of course, sensible footwear. Sensible footwear, or comfortable shoes: the foundations, literally, of many a lesbian’s journey through the world. Photographs, personal stories and jokes alike all attest to this, as do my fiancée’s Birkenstocks and Doc Martens, lined up behind me as I type. A lesbian is not defined by only their shoes, however, as a perspective piece by Daphne Fox Calgary so aptly explained:

And we do all affection women, don’t we?

So that makes us all sisters; those in Hush Puppies, those in sky-high heels, those in black leather boots, those in orthopaedic oxfords, and even those who are presently barefoot and pregnant.¹

Why, then, does the