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• Part III: Who Needs Butch-Femme?

  Part II
  I believe the sayings: “we don’t ‘need’ butch-femme anymore,” “it’s not the 1950s anymore,” to be a privileged/middle class narrative. Especially if we look at the history as recorded in Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold. Gay communities, particularly in the late ’50s, became violently defensive of butch-femme spaces. This was a culmination of [...]

  Posted on Oct 29.08 to Butch, Femme   

• Receptive Girl

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  I find my voice faltering in declarations of dyke-ness sometimes because I like/am stone/s. I’m like “Yea yea rah rah I like fucking women!” and then it’s like, I love to be the receptive (hell passive if you wanna say) subject in sex. So should it be “I liked getting fucked by women!”? And really [...]

  Posted on Oct 28.08 to my personal kinks, the personal   

• Confessions of the Pillow Queen

  Sigh…after reading this, I feel a bit down.
  Confessions of the Pillow Queen: Sexual Practices & Queer Fem-ininites
  Laura A. Harris
  Abstract:
  Rarely does the term “Pillow Queen” refer admiringly to a mode of female or feminine lesbian sexual agency; most often it is used as a term of insult. If a good portion of feminist and queer studies [...]

  Posted on Oct 28.08 to Femme   

• Part II: Class/Gender Stereotypes

  Part I
  I’d like to do a short reading of The L Word. The L Word presents nearly exclusively white, middle-class, lesbians in Los Angeles. None of the characters on the show have ID’d as either butch or femme, except for in two isolated cases.
  The first being the butch/transman Moira/Max. Max is Jenny’s tomboy friend from [...]

  Posted on Oct 28.08 to Butch, Femme   

• Ballot

  I got my early voting ballot in the mail today! As y’all know:

  Posted on Oct 27.08 to the personal, the real world