Dive into the archives.
- Femmethology Blog Tour
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Visible: A Femmethology, the only two-volume anthology devoted to femme identity, calls the LGBTQI community on its prejudices and celebrates the diversity of individual femmes. Award-winning authors, spoken-word artists, and new voices come together to challenge conventional ideas of how disability, class, nationality, race, aesthetics, sexual orientation, [...]
- Choices by Skyy
I just finished reading Choices by Skyy, and I have to say it was pretty good. It’s the first black lesbian novel I’ve bought and I plan on getting the sequel called Consequences (it came out yesterday…don’t you know I went to Amazon and they don’t have any copies left? It was available for pre-order. [...]
- "Femme & Fem-AG"
When I discovered The L Word last year, besides Shane, I thought the character of Papi was sexy as all get out. I’m speaking strictly of hormonal reactions. We are not going to discuss people’s issues with the stereotypes and overall disaster of women of color on The L Word.
Papi does give something to talk [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
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