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• “Female” vs. “Woman”

  Question: Why is it the en vogue thing to refer to women as “females”? This has always irked the hell out of me, and I refuse to do it. Especially since nobody goes around calling men “males.”
  This explains it perfectly:
  As a noun, female has no place in ordinary conversation unless one is speaking of [...]

  Posted on Sep 09.09 to Culture, rants   

• Our Lives Matter

  It’s sad irony when on the 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots a bar, celebrating pride here in Texas, is raided. Police walked into the Rainbow Lounge last week and started pushing around and assaulting patrons. Via the New York Times:
  The grand opening sign still hangs above the door of the Rainbow Lounge, but [...]

  Posted on Jul 06.09 to rants, the real world   

• Why I Claim "Femme"

  Alix had a great discussion of “Femme vs. Feminine” yesterday that had me asking the question, “Why do I claim femme?” Good ass question… until now I’d been taking the answer for granted. ‘Cause for a minute I drew a blank, then remembered. I told her that my reason was an essay long. So here [...]

  Posted on Mar 19.09 to Femme, the personal   

• Jaded Politics

  A year of reading queer politics and theorizing and essayin’ was fun and I learned a lot, but the debates and politics I read and discussed last year don’t even seem relevant anymore.
  There couldn’t be more of a disconnect between the spaces I was previously in and the one I feel most comfortable in now. [...]

  Posted on Jan 25.09 to Femme, rants, the personal   

• black./womyn.

  Damnit, all the documentaries that I want to watch and haven’t seen yet. Anyways, I’m posting this one that is premiering later on this week in Atlanta. Since I’m not in ATL what do I get? This clip below with the fionest(!!!) girl…damn. I’d watch the film just for her.

  Crystal talks about her coming out [...]

  Posted on Dec 01.08 to Butch, Femme, Videos, the real world